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contents We study a class of robust assortment optimization problems that was proposed by Farias, Jagabathula, and Shah (2013). The goal in these problems is to find an assortment that maximizes a firm's worst-case expected revenue under all ranking-based choice models that are consistent with the historical sales data generated by the firm's past assortments. We establish for various settings that these robust optimization problems can either be solved in polynomial-time or can be reformulated as compact mixed-integer optimization problems. To establish our results, we prove that optimal assortments for these robust optimization problems have a simple structure that is closely related to the structure of revenue-ordered assortments. We use our results to show how robust optimization can be used to overcome the risks of estimate-then-optimize and the need for experimentation with ranking-based choice models in the overparameterized regime.
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spellingShingle The Value of Robust Assortment Optimization Under Ranking-based Choice Models
Sturt, Bradley
Optimization and Control
We study a class of robust assortment optimization problems that was proposed by Farias, Jagabathula, and Shah (2013). The goal in these problems is to find an assortment that maximizes a firm's worst-case expected revenue under all ranking-based choice models that are consistent with the historical sales data generated by the firm's past assortments. We establish for various settings that these robust optimization problems can either be solved in polynomial-time or can be reformulated as compact mixed-integer optimization problems. To establish our results, we prove that optimal assortments for these robust optimization problems have a simple structure that is closely related to the structure of revenue-ordered assortments. We use our results to show how robust optimization can be used to overcome the risks of estimate-then-optimize and the need for experimentation with ranking-based choice models in the overparameterized regime.
title The Value of Robust Assortment Optimization Under Ranking-based Choice Models
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05010