no code implementations • NeurIPS 2019 • Virag Shah, Jose Blanchet, Ramesh Johari
Motivated by the application of real-time pricing in e-commerce platforms, we consider the problem of revenue-maximization in a setting where the seller can leverage contextual information describing the customer's history and the product's type to predict her valuation of the product.
1 code implementation • 30 May 2018 • Sven Schmit, Virag Shah, Ramesh Johari
Motivated by the widespread adoption of large-scale A/B testing in industry, we propose a new experimentation framework for the setting where potential experiments are abundant (i. e., many hypotheses are available to test), and observations are costly; we refer to this as the experiment-rich regime.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2018 • Virag Shah, Jose Blanchet, Ramesh Johari
In other words, arrivals exhibit positive externalities.
no code implementations • 2 Mar 2017 • Virag Shah, Lennart Gulikers, Laurent Massoulie, Milan Vojnovic
To address this challenge, we develop a model of a task-expert matching system where a task is matched to an expert using not only the prior information about the task but also the feedback obtained from the past matches.