Vc theory for inventory policies

Y Xie, W Ma, L Xin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11509, 2024 - arxiv.org
Advances in computational power and AI have increased interest in reinforcement learning
approaches to inventory management. This paper provides a theoretical foundation for …

Reinforcement Learning with Intrinsically Motivated Feedback Graph for Lost-sales Inventory Control

Z Liu, X Li, S Chen, G Li, J Jiang, J Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven to be well-performed and general-purpose in the
inventory control (IC). However, further improvement of RL algorithms in the IC domain is …

Deep Generative Demand Learning for Newsvendor and Pricing

S Gong, H Liu, X Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.08631, 2024 - arxiv.org
We consider data-driven inventory and pricing decisions in the feature-based newsvendor
problem, where demand is influenced by both price and contextual features and is modeled …

A Conformal Approach to Feature-based Newsvendor under Model Misspecification

J Cao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.13159, 2024 - arxiv.org
In many data-driven decision-making problems, performance guarantees often depend
heavily on the correctness of model assumptions, which may frequently fail in practice. We …

Contextual Data-Integrated Newsvendor Solution with Operational Data Analytics (ODA)

Q Feng, JG Shanthikumar, J Wu - Available at SSRN 4668658, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the data-integrated newsvendor problem in which the random demand depends
on a set of covariates. Observing from the solutions analyzed in the existing studies, we …

An Algorithmic Approach to Managing Supply Chain Data Security: The Differentially Private Newsvendor

D Chen, GA Chua - Nanyang Business School Research Paper, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
Data is now unanimously considered a key firm asset for enabling better operational
decisions. However, data-driven decisions can inadvertently expose private data, leaving …

Unraveling Temporal and Spatial Dynamics: An Interpretable ST-ODE Method for Predicting Delivery Time

J Cao, Y Leng, H Wang - Available at SSRN 4477964, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
We investigate the potential of interpretable deep learning methods to enhance the accuracy
of delivery time prediction in home appliance retail sector. Our research, motivated by the …