Learning product rankings robust to fake users

N Golrezaei, V Manshadi, J Schneider… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In many online platforms, customers' decisions are substantially influenced by product
rankings as most customers only examine a few top-ranked products. Concurrently, such …

Joint learning and optimization for multi-product pricing (and ranking) under a general cascade click model

X Gao, S Jasin, S Najafi, H Zhang - Management Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider joint learning and optimization problems under a general Cascade Click
model. Under this model, customers examine the products in a decreasing order of display …

Simple is enough: A cascade approximation for attention-based satisficing choice models

P Gao, Y Liu, C Wang, Z Wang - Available at SSRN 4529802, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Empirical evidence suggests that consumers commonly focus their attention on a subset of
available products and evaluate them in batches to identify a satisfactory option. To capture …

[PDF][PDF] Position auctions with endogenous product information: Why live-streaming advertising is thriving

YJ Chen, G Gallego, P Gao, Y Li - Available at SSRN 3685012, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
Live-streaming advertising in e-commerce is soaring. Both Amazon and Alibaba have
employed this novel marketing model to engage consumers by sequentially exhibiting …

Ranking and pricing under a cascade model of consumer review browsing

J Zhao, X Pan, VA Truong, J Song - IISE Transactions, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
In online platforms, the reviews posted by existing consumers are playing an increasingly
important role in the purchasing decisions of potential consumers. Motivated by this …

Assortment and price optimization under a multi-attribute (contextual) choice model

S Najafi, S Jasin, J Uichanco, J Zhao - Available at SSRN 4505644, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Due to its immense importance in retail, extensive research has been devoted to studying
assortment and price optimization problems. Most papers in this domain employ context …

Ordering and ranking products for an online retailer

Z Zhang, HS Ahn, L Baardman - Available at SSRN 4061071, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
In e-commerce, product ranking and display affect customer choices and sales as items
placed in top positions receive significantly more clicks than items placed at the bottom. For …

Dynamic Pricing Under Self-Exciting Arrival Processes

Q Yuan, L Du, M Hu - Available at SSRN 4889448, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We study dynamic pricing under a stochastic, non-linear, self-exciting demand arrival
process over a finite sales horizon. We adopt such a correlated demand process to capture …

Designing Surprise Bags for Surplus Foods

F Zhou, H Jiang, A Li, J Uichanco - Available at SSRN, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract Too Good To Go (TGTG) has emerged as a global leader in reducing food waste by
connecting consumers with retailers' surplus food through" surprise bags." While TGTG …

Product sequencing and pricing under cascade browse model

S Tang, J Yuan - Operations Research Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
We study the assortment optimization problem under the newly proposed cascade browse
model. We propose a constant approximate solution to this problem. As a byproduct, we …