2 papers
econ.TH2026
Supracompetitive Pricing Under AI Monoculture
Shengyu Cao, Ming Hu
When competing sellers delegate pricing to a shared AI model, such as a large language model, correlated recommendations combined with performance-driven updates aggregating seller…
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…