4 papers
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…
Nonparametric Bayesian Optimization for General Rewards
Zishi Zhang, Tao Ren, Yijie Peng
This work focuses on Bayesian optimization (BO) under reward model uncertainty. We propose the first BO algorithm that achieves no-regret guarantee in a general reward setting, req…
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…
InterCorpRel-LLM: Enhancing Financial Relational Understanding with Graph-Language Models
Qianyou Sun, Jiexin Zheng, Bohan Jin +2
Identifying inter-firm relationships such as supply and competitive ties is critical for financial analysis and corporate governance, yet remains challenging due to the scale, spar…