2 papers
econ.GN2025
The Power of Linear Programming in Sponsored Listings Ranking: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Haihao Lu, Luyang Zhang, Yuting Zhu
Sponsored product advertisements constitute a major revenue source for online marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, and Alibaba. A key operational challenge in these systems lies i…
math.OC2025
On the Sparsity of Optimal Linear Decision Rules for a Class of Robust Optimization Problems with Box Uncertainty Sets
Haihao Lu, Brad Sturt
We consider a class of production-inventory problems with box uncertainty sets from the seminal work of Ben-Tal et al. (2004) on linear decision rules in robust optimization. We pr…