David Simchi-Levi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering

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1.

Dynamic Pricing and Demand Learning with Limited Price Experimentation

Operations Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2017
Wang Chi Cheung, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE)
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Revenue Management, Dynamic Pricing, Learning-Earning Trade-off, Price Experimentation

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Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling

Operations Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2018
Kris Ferreira, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang
Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE)
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revenue management, pricing, multi-armed bandit, Thompson sampling

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A Statistical Learning Approach to Personalization in Revenue Management

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2020
Xi Chen, Zachary Owen, Clark Pixton and David Simchi-Levi
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center, Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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revenue management, statistical learning

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Large-scale Price Optimization for an Online Fashion Retailer

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Feb 2021
Hanwei Li, David Simchi-Levi, Rui Sun, Michelle Xiao Wu, Vladimir Fux, Torsten Gellert, Thorsten Greiner and Andrea Taverna
City University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Zalando GmbH
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Fashion Retailing, Operations Management, Business Analytics, Price Optimization, Large Scale Decomposition

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A New Approach for Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demand: Combining Route Assignment with Process Flexibility

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2022
Kirby Ledvina, Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi and Yehua Wei
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Decision Sciences Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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stochastic capacitated vehicle routing, a priori route assignment, process flexibility, probabilistic analysis

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Assortment Planning for Recommendations at Checkout under Inventory Constraints

Mathematics of Operations Research (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023
Xi Chen, Will Ma, David Simchi-Levi and Linwei Xin
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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revenue management; assortment optimization; personalized recommendation; online algorithms; competitive ratio

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Online Assortment Optimization with Reusable Resources

Management Science
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2021
Evelyn Xiao-Yue Gong, Vineet Goyal, Garud Iyengar, David Simchi-Levi, Rajan Udwani and Shuangyu Wang
Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), Columbia University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, UC Berkeley and Columbia University
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Online Algorithms, Assortment Optimization, Resource Allocation, Competitive Ratio

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Dynamic Learning and Pricing with Model Misspecification

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 27 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2020
Mila Nambiar, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE)
Downloads 1,181 (36,312)
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revenue management, pricing, misspecification, fashion retail

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Bandits atop Reinforcement Learning: Tackling Online Inventory Models With Cyclic Demands

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 21 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2023
Evelyn Xiao-Yue Gong and David Simchi-Levi
Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 1,059 (42,580)

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inventory, cyclic demands, censored demand, lost-sales, reinforcement learning, nonparametric, bandits, regret analysis, lead time, joint-ordering cost

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Thompson Sampling for Online Personalized Assortment Optimization Problems with Multinomial Logit Choice Models

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Nov 2017
Wang Chi Cheung and David Simchi-Levi
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 1,041 (43,658)
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Assortment Optimization, Multi-armed Bandits, Multinomial Logit Choice Models, Thompson Sampling.

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Multi-armed Bandit Experimental Design: Online Decision-making and Adaptive Inference

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 28 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2023
David Simchi-Levi and Chonghuan Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 997 (46,509)
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Adaptive Experimental Design, Multi-armed Bandit, Online Learning, Treatment Effect, Minimax Multi-Objective Optimization, Pareto Optimality

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Calibrating Sales Forecast in a Pandemic Using Competitive Online Non-Parametric Regression

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2022
David Simchi-Levi, Rui Sun, Michelle Xiao Wu and Ruihao Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and Cornell University
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sales forecast, online learning, non-parametric regression, COVID-19 pandemic

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Data-Driven Approximation Schemes for Joint Pricing and Inventory Control Models

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 25 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2021
Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi and Li Wang
National University of Singapore (NUS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center
Downloads 987 (47,082)
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dynamic pricing, inventory control, revenue management, approximation algorithm, data-driven optimization, dynamic programming

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Algorithms for Online Matching, Assortment, and Pricing with Tight Weight-Dependent Competitive Ratios

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2021
Will Ma and David Simchi-Levi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 914 (52,254)
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Online Algorithms, Competitive Ratio, Revenue Management, Online Matching, Adwords, Booking Limits

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Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control with Fixed Ordering Cost and Incomplete Demand Information

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 24 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2021
Boxiao Chen, David Simchi-Levi, Yining Wang and Yuan Zhou
University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Business Administration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas and Tsinghua University - Yau Mathematical Sciences Center
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dynamic pricing, inventory control, fixed ordering cost, online learning, asymptotic analysis

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Multi-Modal Dynamic Pricing

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2020
Yining Wang, Boxiao Chen and David Simchi-Levi
University of Texas at Dallas, University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Business Administration and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 811 (61,527)
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multi-modal reward function, dynamic pricing, nonparametric learning, asymptotic analyses

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Estimating and Exploiting the Impact of Photo Layout: A Structural Approach

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2021
Hanwei Li, David Simchi-Levi, Michelle Xiao Wu and Weiming Zhu
City University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong
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Sharing Economy, Choice Model, Empirical Operations Management

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Disruption Risk Mitigation in Supply Chains - The Risk Exposure Index Revisited

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2018
Sarah Yini Gao, David Simchi-Levi, Chung-Piaw Teo and Zhenzhen Yan
Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, NUS Business School - Department of Decision Sciences and Nanyang Technological University
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supply chain risk management, disruption management, time-to-survive, sensitivity analysis, completely positive programming.

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Increasing Supply Chain Robustness through Process Flexibility and Inventory

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2017
David Simchi-Levi, He Wang and Yehua Wei
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) and Decision Sciences Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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supply chain risk mitigation strategies, process flexibility, inventory, robust optimization

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Hedging the Drift: Learning to Optimize Under Non-Stationarity

Forthcoming at Management Science
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 30 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2021
Wang Chi Cheung, David Simchi-Levi and Ruihao Zhu
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Cornell University
Downloads 746 (68,677)
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data-driven decision-making, non-stationary bandit optimization, revenue management

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Learning Valuation Distributions from Bundle Sales

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2023
Will Ma and David Simchi-Levi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 700 (74,617)

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bundling, valuation learning, revenue management

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Assortment Display, Price Competition and Fairness in Online Marketplaces

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 31 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2024
Hongyu Chen, Hanwei Li, David Simchi-Levi, Michelle Xiao Wu and Weiming Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), City University of Hong Kong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong
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Marketing Science, Online Platforms, Price Competition, Revenue Management, Assortment Optimization, Fairness

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Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 15 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2022
Iavor Bojinov, David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao
Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
Downloads 608 (89,354)
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experimental design, switchback experiments, discrete optimization, central limit theorem

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Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning: The Blessing of (More) Optimism

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
Wang Chi Cheung, David Simchi-Levi and Ruihao Zhu
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Cornell University
Downloads 600 (90,678)

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reinforcement learning, data-driven decision making, confidence widening

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Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines Under Limited Supply

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 31 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2020
Xin Chen, Menglong Li, David Simchi-Levi and Tiancheng Zhao
Georgia Institute of Technology - H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Management Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 597 (91,258)
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COVID-19, vaccine allocation, limited supply, static policy, dynamic policy

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Offline Pricing and Demand Learning with Censored Data

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 01 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2021
Jinzhi Bu, David Simchi-Levi and Li Wang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center
Downloads 556 (100,132)
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price optimization, demand censoring, data-driven algorithm, offline learning, finite-sample analysis

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Context-Based Dynamic Pricing with Separable Demand Models

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 27 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2023
Jinzhi Bu, David Simchi-Levi and Chonghuan Wang
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Separable Demand, Dynamic Pricing, Contextual Information, Online Learning

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On Greedy-like Policies in Online Matching with Reusable Network Resources and Decaying Rewards

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2023
David Simchi-Levi, Zeyu Zheng and Feng Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
Downloads 519 (108,759)
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online matching, reusable resources, network resources, decaying rewards, greedy-like policy, competitive ratio

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Phase Transitions in Bandits with Switching Constraints

Management Science (to appear)
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 06 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2022
David Simchi-Levi and Yunzong Xu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 516 (109,548)
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multi-armed bandit, switching constraint, limited switches, phase transition, regret analysis, minimax lower bound, graph traversal, revenue management, dynamic pricing

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Meta Dynamic Pricing: Transfer Learning Across Experiments

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 06 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2020
Hamsa Bastani, David Simchi-Levi and Ruihao Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Cornell University
Downloads 509 (111,399)
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Thompson sampling, transfer learning, dynamic pricing, meta learning

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Distributionally Robust Omnichannel Stocking Decisions in Quick Fulfillment Systems

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2019
Louis Chen, Rong Jin, Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi and Zirun Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Operations Research Center, Students, Alibaba Group, National University of Singapore (NUS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Alibaba Group
Downloads 494 (115,706)
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Robust Optimization, Omnichannel Inventory Management, Optimal Transport, New Retail

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Price and Assortment Optimization for Reusable Resources

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2018
Zachary Owen and David Simchi-Levi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 480 (120,012)
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Revenue Management, Reusable Resources, Online Algorithms

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Online Pricing with Offline Data: Phase Transition and Inverse Square Law

Forthcoming in Management Science
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 29 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2021
Jinzhi Bu, David Simchi-Levi and Yunzong Xu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 469 (122,790)
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dynamic pricing, online learning, offline data, phase transition, inverse-square law

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Global Operations Sourcing Strategy: A Chinese Perspective

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2017
Y. Chen, Morris A. Cohen, Shiliang Cui, Ming Dong, Shaoxuan Liu and David Simchi-Levi
Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Antai College of Economics and Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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Pricing Experimental Design: Causal Effect, Expected Revenue and Tail Risk

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 16 Feb 2023
David Simchi-Levi and Chonghuan Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 454 (127,578)

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Adaptive Experimental Design, Treatment Effect, Revenue Management, Online Learning, Risk Control, Dynamic Pricing

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Sampling-Based Approximation Schemes for Capacitated Stochastic Inventory Control Models

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2017
Wang Chi Cheung and David Simchi-Levi
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 393 (150,984)
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Sample Average Approximation, Inventory Models, Data-driven

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Dynamic Pricing (and Assortment) under a Static Calendar

Management Science
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 26 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2020
Will Ma, David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
Downloads 392 (151,436)
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revenue management, dynamic pricing, dynamic assortment

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Solving Large-Scale Vehicle Routing Problems with Unsplit Demands via Limited Information

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 21 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2023
Haichen Hu, Hanzhang Qin and David Simchi-Levi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), National University of Singapore (NUS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 390 (152,730)

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vehicle routing, region partitioning, online bin-packing, process flexibility, asymptotic analysis

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Distributionally Robust Linear and Discrete Optimization with Marginals

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 27 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2019
Louis Chen, Will Ma, Karthik Natarajan, David Simchi-Levi and Zhenzhen Yan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Operations Research Center, Students, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Nanyang Technological University
Downloads 378 (157,631)
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Robust Optimization, Discrete Optimization, Optimal Transport

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Efficient Cloud Server Deployment Under Demand Uncertainty

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 29 Feb 2024
Rui Peng Liu, Konstantina Mellou, Evelyn Xiao-Yue Gong, Beibin Li, Thomas Coffee, Jeevan Pathuri, David Simchi-Levi and Ishai Menache
Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research, Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Microsoft Research
Downloads 372 (160,430)

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supply chain optimization, cloud computing, capacity planning

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Non-stationary Experimental Design under Structured Trends

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 25 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2023
David Simchi-Levi, Chonghuan Wang and Zeyu Zheng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of California, Berkeley
Downloads 371 (160,875)
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Adaptive Experimental Design, Non-stationary, Online Learning, Treatment Effect

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Blind Network Revenue Management and Bandits with Knapsacks under Limited Switches

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 06 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2021
David Simchi-Levi, Yunzong Xu and Jinglong Zhao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
Downloads 361 (165,754)

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Network Revenue Management, Bandits With Knapsacks, Online Learning, Limited Switches

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Drivers of Product Expiration in Consumer Packaged Goods Retailing

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2017
Arzum Akkas, Vishal Gaur and David Simchi-Levi
Boston University - Questrom School of Business, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 342 (175,840)
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retail operations, consumer packaged goods, product expiration, food waste, empirical, perishable inventory, supply chain management, marketing/operations interface, sustainable operations management, zero-inflated models

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Trading Safety Stock for Service Response Time in Inventory Positioning

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2022
Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi, Ryan Ferer, Jonathan Mays, Ken Merriam, Megan Forrester and Alex Hamrick
National University of Singapore (NUS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Accenture, Accenture, Accenture, The Home Depot and The Home Depot
Downloads 324 (186,980)
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sales forecast, risk pooling, service quality, supply chain network, online retailing

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Multi-Stage and Multi-Customer Assortment Optimization With Inventory Constraints

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2020
Elaheh Fata, Will Ma and David Simchi-Levi
Queen's University - Smith School of Business, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 321 (188,163)
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Assortment Optimization, Online Matching, Online Marketplaces, Online Advertising

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Sailing through the Dark: Provably Sample-Efficient Inventory Control

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Dec 2023
Hanzhang Qin, David Simchi-Levi and Ruihao Zhu
National University of Singapore (NUS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Cornell University
Downloads 320 (188,779)

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inventory control, dynamic programming, reinforcement learning, sample complexity

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Designing Response Supply Chain against Bioattacks

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2019
David Simchi-Levi, Nikolaos Trichakis and Peter Yun Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 312 (193,929)
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Bioterrorism, Supply Chain Design, Robust Optimization

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Dynamic Inventory Allocation with Demand Learning for Seasonal Goods

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2020
Mila Nambiar, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE)
Downloads 305 (199,452)

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Multi-echelon Inventory; Inventory Allocation; Demand Learning

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Dynamic Pricing With Infrequent Inventory Replenishments

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2023
Boxiao Chen, Menglong Li and David Simchi-Levi
University of Illinois at Chicago - College of Business Administration, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Management Sciences and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 301 (202,250)

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Dynamic pricing, infrequent inventory replenishment, online demand learning, convergence analyses

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Reaping the Benefits of Bundling under High Production Costs

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2016
Will Ma and David Simchi-Levi
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 294 (206,627)
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revenue management, monopolist pricing, bundling, marketing, Bayesian mechanism design

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Bypassing the Monster: A Faster and Simpler Optimal Algorithm for Contextual Bandits under Realizability

Mathematics of Operations Research (to appear)
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2021
David Simchi-Levi and Yunzong Xu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 290 (209,568)
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contextual bandit, statistical learning, offline regression, computational efficiency, reduction

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Efficiency and Performance Guarantees for Choice-Based Network Revenue Management Problems with Flexible Products

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 15 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2016
Wang Chi Cheung and David Simchi-Levi
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 276 (220,602)
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Assortment Optimization, Efficient Algorithms, Choice Models, Revenue Management, Online Optimization

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A Simple and Optimal Policy Design with Safety against Heavy-Tailed Risk for Stochastic Bandits

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 08 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2024
David Simchi-Levi, Zeyu Zheng and Feng Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
Downloads 263 (232,296)

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stochastic bandits, worst-case optimality, instance-dependent consistency, heavy-tailed risk

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Contextual Offline Demand Learning and Pricing with Separable Models

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2023
Menglong Li, David Simchi-Levi, Renfei Tan, Chonghuan Wang and Michelle Xiao Wu
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Management Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
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Separable Model, Pricing, Contextual Information, Revenue Management

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Improving Supply Chain Efficiency Through Wholesale Price Renegotiation

IESE Business School Working Paper No. 721
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Apr 2008
Victor Martinez-de-Albeniz and David Simchi-Levi
IESE Business School - University of Navarra and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 246 (249,408)
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Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Personalized Pricing with Demand Learning

NYU Stern School of Business Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2022
Xi Chen, David Simchi-Levi and Yining Wang
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and University of Texas at Dallas
Downloads 234 (259,747)
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Differential privacy, Dynamic pricing, Generalized Linear models, personal information

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Competition in the Supply Option Market

IESE Business School Working Paper No. 718
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Victor Martinez-de-Albeniz and David Simchi-Levi
IESE Business School - University of Navarra and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 216 (281,497)
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A Fully Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme for Single-Item Stochastic Lot-Sizing Problems with Discrete Demand

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4582-06
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Feb 2006
James B. Orlin, Nir Halman, Diego Klabjan, Mohamed Mostagir and David Simchi-Levi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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Inventory Replenishment Policy

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Efficient Switchback Experiments with Surrogate Variables: Estimation and Experimental Design

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 May 2023 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Hongyu Chen and David Simchi-Levi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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experimental design, switchback experiment, causal inference, importance sampling.

60.

Branch-and-Bound Algorithms for Assortment Optimization Under Weakly Rational Choice

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Aug 2016
Clark Pixton and David Simchi-Levi
Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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assortment optimization, choice models, non-parametric choice, mixed-integer optimization, branch-and-bound, approximation schemes

61.

Online Matching with Bayesian Rewards

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2020
David Simchi-Levi, Rui Sun and Xinshang Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and Alibaba Group
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Online Matching, Bayesian Learning, Markovian Bandits

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Imaged-Based Similarity for Demand Forecasting: a Novel Multimodal Method to Exploit Images’ Latent Information

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 May 2024 Last Revised: 10 May 2024
Hanwei Li, Yuxiang Liu, Junyi Sha, David Simchi-Levi and Michelle Xiao Wu
City University of Hong Kong, Stanford University - Department of Management Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Computational Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
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Machine Learning, Revenue Management, Demand Forecasting, Computer Vision, Fashion Industry

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Network Effects, Customer Reviews, and Product Proliferation in Online Durable Goods Markets

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Jun 2020
Clark Pixton and David Simchi-Levi
Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
Downloads 177 (337,971)
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E-commerce, social learning, customer reviews, network effects, product proliferation

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Online Learning and Optimization for Revenue Management Problems with Add-on Discounts

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 01 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
David Simchi-Levi, Rui Sun and Huanan Zhang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business
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revenue management, add-on discount, online learning, approximation algorithm

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Analyzing Process Flexibility: A Distribution-Free Approach with Partial Expectations

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2016
Hoda Bidkhori, David Simchi-Levi and Yehua Wei
University of Pittsburgh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Decision Sciences Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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Process flexibility, distributionally-robust analysis, chaining, production system design

66.

Bayesian Mechanism Design for Blockchain Transaction Fee Allocation

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 19 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2024
Xi Chen, David Simchi-Levi, Zishuo Zhao and Yuan Zhou
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Tsinghua University - Yau Mathematical Sciences Center
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blockchain, mechanism design, Bayesian game, multinomial logit choice model

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On Experimentation With Heterogeneous Subgroups: An Asymptotic Optimal δ-Weighted-PAC Design

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 Feb 2024
David Simchi-Levi, Chonghuan Wang and Jiamin Xu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Fudan University - School of Mathematics and Science
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Adaptive Experimental Design, Best Arm Identification

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Shrinking the Upper Confidence Bound: A Dynamic Product Selection Problem for Urban Warehouses

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 11 May 2019
Rong Jin, David Simchi-Levi, Li Wang, Xinshang Wang and Sen Yang
Alibaba Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Operations Research Center, Alibaba Group and Alibaba Group
Downloads 143 (402,257)
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sequential decision making, adaptive product selection, online learning, online retailing, stochastic optimization, regret analysis

69.

Dynamic Service Fee Pricing under Strategic Behavior: Actions as Instruments and Phase Transition

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Rui Ai, David Simchi-Levi and Feng Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
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Static Pricing for a Network Service Provider

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Jul 2006
Felipe Caro and David Simchi-Levi
UCLA Anderson School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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phone cards, Erlang loss system, product-form, stochastic knapsack, quasiconcavity.

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Bayesian Online Multiple Testing: A Resource Allocation Approach

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2024
Ruicheng Ao, Hongyu Chen, David Simchi-Levi and Feng Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
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false discovery rate, multiple testing, online knapsack, exogenous replenishment, resource allocation, re-solving

72.

Inventory Balancing with Online Learning

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
Wang Chi Cheung, Will Ma, David Simchi-Levi and Xinshang Wang
Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Alibaba Group
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The Competitive Ratio of Threshold Policies for Online Unit-density Knapsack Problems

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2024
Will Ma, David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Decision Risk and Operations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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Wholesale, supply chain ordering, knapsack problem, online algorithms

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Optimal Static Pricing for a Tree Network

Annals of Operation Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 11 Apr 2012
Felipe Caro and David Simchi-Levi
UCLA Anderson School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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tree network

75.

Learning Mixed Multinomial Logits with Provable Guarantees and its Applications in Multi-product Pricing

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 12 Aug 2024 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2024
Yiqun Hu, Limeng Liu, David Simchi-Levi and Zhenzhen Yan
Amazon, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Nanyang Technological University
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Utility Fairness in Contextual Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Dec 2023
Xi Chen, David Simchi-Levi and Yining Wang
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and University of Texas at Dallas
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Two-Stage Online Reusable Resource Allocation: Reservation, Overbooking and Confirmation Call

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Nov 2024
Ruicheng Ao, Hengyu Fu and David Simchi-Levi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Peking University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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resource allocation, reusable resources, online algorithms, advance reservation, walk-in customer, overbooking, confirmation call

78.

Experimenting on Markov Decision Processes with Local Treatments

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Aug 2024 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2024
Shuze Chen, David Simchi-Levi and Chonghuan Wang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Zhiyuan College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Experimentation, A/B Testing, Markov Decision Process, Local Treatment

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Prediction-Guided Active Experiments

Number of pages: 25
Hongyu Chen, Ruicheng Ao and David Simchi-Levi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering
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experimental design, prediction-powered inference

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Optimal Adaptive Experimental Design for Estimating Treatment Effect*

Number of pages: 58
Jiachun Li, David Simchi-Levi and Yunxiao Zhao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - School of Engineering and Peking University
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