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Learning to Price and Stock Under Contextual and Censored Demand
Zean Han, Zezhen Ding, Jiheng Zhang
To make optimal joint pricing and inventory control decisions is a critical challenge for modern retailers. In practice, retailers face changing market conditions where demands are…
Nonparametric Contextual Pricing and Inventory Learning under Censored Demand
Zean Han, Jing Liang, Ruihan Lin +2
In online retailing, when a product sells out, a retailer often sees only the units sold, not how many customers would have bought it had inventory been available. However, the inv…
Direction-Aware Offline-to-Online Learning in Linear Contextual Bandits
Zean Han, Ruihan Lin, Zezhen Ding +1
Many bandit systems are deployed with offline historical data, such as past logs from earlier policies. Using these data can reduce early online exploration when they remain inform…
A Kinetic Energy Perspective of Flow Matching
Ziyun Li, Huancheng Hu, Soon Hoe Lim +6
Flow-based generative models can be viewed through a physics lens: sampling transports a particle from noise to data by integrating a learned velocity field, and each sample corres…
Make Optimization Once and for All with Fine-grained Guidance
Mingjia Shi, Ruihan Lin, Xuxi Chen +8
Learning to Optimize (L2O) enhances optimization efficiency with integrated neural networks. L2O paradigms achieve great outcomes, e.g., refitting optimizer, generating unseen solu…
FlowTS: Time Series Generation via Rectified Flow
Yang Hu, Xiao Wang, Zezhen Ding +7
Diffusion-based models have significant achievements in time series generation but suffer from inefficient computation: solving high-dimensional ODEs/SDEs via iterative numerical s…