no code implementations • 3 Feb 2024 • Wei Sun, Scott McFaddin, Linh Ha Tran, Shivaram Subramanian, Kristjan Greenewald, Yeshi Tenzin, Zack Xue, Youssef Drissi, Markus Ettl
The first challenge is caused by the limitations of observational data for accurate causal inference which is typically a prerequisite for good decision-making.
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2023 • Pavithra Harsha, Shivaram Subramanian, Ali Koc, Mahesh Ramakrishna, Brian Quanz, Dhruv Shah, Chandra Narayanaswami
Using a real-world dataset from a large American omnichannel retail chain, a business value assessment during a peak period indicates over a 15% profitability gain for BIO over RO and other baselines while also preserving the (practical) worst case performance.
no code implementations • 14 Feb 2023 • Shivaram Subramanian, Wei Sun
However, existing MIP methods that build on an arc-based formulation do not scale well as the number of binary variables is in the order of $\mathcal{O}(2^dN)$, where $d$ and $N$ refer to the depth of the tree and the size of the dataset.
no code implementations • 20 Jul 2022 • Shivaram Subramanian, Wei Sun, Youssef Drissi, Markus Ettl
We introduce a novel path-based mixed-integer program (MIP) formulation which identifies a (near) optimal policy efficiently via column generation.