5 papers
Strategic Buying Agents
Mingyang Fu, Ming Hu
Agentic AI is shifting online shopping from search toward delegated purchasing, where autonomous buying agents monitor markets and decide when to buy on a consumer's behalf. We stu…
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…
Capacitated Spatiotemporal Matching
Mingyang Fu, Ming Hu
We study a spatiotemporal service matching problem in which demand, heterogeneous in location and time sensitivity/preference, is to be assigned to service stations. The planner se…
Constant-Factor Algorithms for Revenue Management with Consecutive Stays
Ming Hu, Tongwen Wu
We study network revenue management problems motivated by applications such as railway ticket sales and hotel room bookings. Requests, each requiring a resource for a consecutive s…
Identity-Aware Vision-Language Model for Explainable Face Forgery Detection
Junhao Xu, Jingjing Chen, Yang Jiao +4
Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the creation of highly realistic image forgeries, raising significant concerns about digital media authenticity.…