3 papers
cs.LG2026
Cold-Start Forecasting of New Product Life-Cycles via Conditional Diffusion Models
Ruihan Zhou, Zishi Zhang, Jinhui Han +2
Forecasting the life-cycle trajectory of a newly launched product is important for launch planning, resource allocation, and early risk assessment. This task is especially difficul…
cs.CY2026
LLM Biases
Jinhui Han, Ming Hu, Xilin Zhang
Transformer-based agentic AI is rapidly being deployed on major platforms to help users shop, watch, and navigate content with less effort. While these systems can deliver impressi…
cs.LG2026
LLM-Inspired Pretrain-Then-Finetune for Small-Data, Large-Scale Optimization
Zishi Zhang, Jinhui Han, Ming Hu +1
We consider small-data, large-scale decision problems in which a firm must make many operational decisions simultaneously (e.g., across a large product portfolio) while observing o…