4 papers
A Solicit-Then-Suggest Model of Agentic Purchasing
Shengyu Cao, Ming Hu
E-commerce is shifting from search-based shopping to agentic purchasing. Rather than relying on keywords, AI shopping agents learn customer preferences through targeted multi-round…
Best Arm Identification in Batched Multi-armed Bandit Problems
Shengyu Cao, Simai He, Ruoqing Jiang +2
Recently multi-armed bandit problem arises in many real-life scenarios where arms must be sampled in batches, due to limited time the agent can wait for the feedback. Such applicat…
Extreme ratio between spectral and Frobenius norms of nonnegative tensors
Shengyu Cao, Simai He, Zhening Li +1
One of the fundamental problems in multilinear algebra, the minimum ratio between the spectral and Frobenius norms of tensors, has received considerable attention in recent years.…
Optimal Partition for Multi-Type Queueing System
Shengyu Cao, Simai He, Zizhuo Wang +1
We study an optimal server partition and customer assignment problem for an uncapacitated FCFS queueing system with heterogeneous types of customers. Each type of customers is asso…