3 papers
cs.DS2026
A Nonparametric Framework for Online Stochastic Matching with Correlated Arrivals
Ali Aouad, Will Ma
The design of online algorithms for matching markets and revenue management settings is usually bound by the assumption that the demand process is formed by a fixed-length sequence…
cs.CE2026
The Pandora's Box Problem with Sequential Inspections
Ali Aouad, Jingwei Ji, Yaron Shaposhnik
The Pandora's box problem (Weitzman 1979) is a core model in economic theory that captures an agent's (Pandora's) search for the best alternative (box). We study an important gener…
cs.AI2025
The Sign Estimator: LLM Alignment in the Face of Choice Heterogeneity
Ali Aouad, Aymane El Gadarri, Vivek F. Farias
Traditional LLM alignment methods are vulnerable to heterogeneity in human preferences. Fitting a naïve probabilistic model to pairwise comparison data (say over prompt-completion…