4 papers
The Transient Cost of Learning in Queueing Systems
Daniel Freund, Thodoris Lykouris, Wentao Weng
Queueing systems are widely applicable stochastic models with use cases in communication networks, healthcare, service systems, etc. Although their optimal control has been extensi…
Towards Practical Robustness Auditing for Linear Regression
Daniel Freund, Samuel B. Hopkins
We investigate practical algorithms to find or disprove the existence of small subsets of a dataset which, when removed, reverse the sign of a coefficient in an ordinary least squa…
Overbooking with bounded loss
Daniel Freund, Jiayu Kamessi Zhao
We study a classical problem in revenue management: quantity-based single-resource revenue management with no-shows. In this problem, a firm observes a sequence of customers re…
Driver Positioning and Incentive Budgeting with an Escrow Mechanism for Ridesharing Platforms
Hao Yi Ong, Daniel Freund, Davide Crapis
Drivers on the Lyft rideshare platform do not always know where the areas of supply shortage are in real time. This lack of information hurts both riders trying to find a ride and…