5 papers
Information Limits of Multistage Inventory Control: Learning, Valuation, and Censoring
Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi, Ruihao Zhu
Learning how to replenish inventory and estimating the cost of doing so require different information. We establish information-theoretic lower bounds for offline multistage invent…
Assured autonomy: How operations research powers and orchestrates generative AI systems
Tinglong Dai, David Simchi-Levi, Michelle Xiao Wu +1
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is shifting from conversational assistants toward agentic systems -- autonomous decision-making systems that sense, decide, and act withi…
From Confounding to Learning: Dynamic Service Fee Pricing on Third-Party Platforms
Rui Ai, David Simchi-Levi, Feng Zhu
We study the pricing behavior of third-party platforms facing strategic agents. Assuming the platform is a revenue maximizer, it observes market features that generally affect dema…
Multi-agent Adaptive Mechanism Design
Qiushi Han, David Simchi-Levi, Renfei Tan +1
We study a sequential mechanism design problem in which a principal seeks to elicit truthful reports from multiple rational agents while starting with no prior knowledge of agents'…
Improving the Estimation of Lifetime Effects in A/B Testing via Treatment Locality
Shuze Chen, David Simchi-Levi, Chonghuan Wang
Utilizing randomized experiments to evaluate the effect of short-term treatments on the short-term outcomes has been well understood and become the golden standard in industrial pr…