3 papers
cs.SI2026
Optimal Exploration of New Products under Assortment Decisions
Jackie Baek, Atanas Dinev, Thodoris Lykouris
We study online learning for new products on a platform that makes capacity-constrained assortment decisions on which products to offer. For a newly listed product, its quality is…
cs.GT2024
Social Learning with Limited Attention: Negative Reviews Persist under Newest First
Jackie Baek, Atanas Dinev, Thodoris Lykouris
We study a model of social learning from reviews where customers are computationally limited and make purchases based on reading only the first few reviews displayed by the platfor…
cs.LG2023
When Collaborative Filtering is not Collaborative: Unfairness of PCA for Recommendations
David Liu, Jackie Baek, Tina Eliassi-Rad
We study the fairness of dimensionality reduction methods for recommendations. We focus on the fundamental method of principal component analysis (PCA), which identifies latent com…