4 papers
Assortment and Procurement Design in Dual-Mode Content Platforms
Garud Iyengar, Yuanzhe Ma, Jay Sethuraman
We study assortment and procurement design for a digital content platform offering both ad-supported and subscription access. Users are heterogeneous in content preferences and ad…
A Sensitivity Approach to Causal Inference Under Limited Overlap
Yuanzhe Ma, Yian Huang, Hongseok Namkoong
Limited overlap between treated and control groups is a key challenge in observational analysis. Standard approaches like trimming importance weights can reduce variance but introd…
Convergence Rate of the Join-the-Shortest-Queue System
Yuanzhe Ma, Siva Theja Maguluri
The Join-the-Shortest-Queue (JSQ) policy is among the most widely used load balancing algorithms and has been extensively studied. However, an exact characterization of the system…
A Planning Framework for Adaptive Labeling
Daksh Mittal, Yuanzhe Ma, Shalmali Joshi +1
Ground truth labels/outcomes are critical for advancing scientific and engineering applications, e.g., evaluating the treatment effect of an intervention or performance of a predic…