Online Inventory Problems: Beyond the i.i.d. Setting with Online Convex Optimization

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Main Authors: Hihat, Massil, Gaïffas, Stéphane, Garrigos, Guillaume, Bussy, Simon
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Published: 2023
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author Hihat, Massil
Gaïffas, Stéphane
Garrigos, Guillaume
Bussy, Simon
author_facet Hihat, Massil
Gaïffas, Stéphane
Garrigos, Guillaume
Bussy, Simon
contents We study multi-product inventory control problems where a manager makes sequential replenishment decisions based on partial historical information in order to minimize its cumulative losses. Our motivation is to consider general demands, losses and dynamics to go beyond standard models which usually rely on newsvendor-type losses, fixed dynamics, and unrealistic i.i.d. demand assumptions. We propose MaxCOSD, an online algorithm that has provable guarantees even for problems with non-i.i.d. demands and stateful dynamics, including for instance perishability. We consider what we call non-degeneracy assumptions on the demand process, and argue that they are necessary to allow learning.
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spellingShingle Online Inventory Problems: Beyond the i.i.d. Setting with Online Convex Optimization
Hihat, Massil
Gaïffas, Stéphane
Garrigos, Guillaume
Bussy, Simon
Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
We study multi-product inventory control problems where a manager makes sequential replenishment decisions based on partial historical information in order to minimize its cumulative losses. Our motivation is to consider general demands, losses and dynamics to go beyond standard models which usually rely on newsvendor-type losses, fixed dynamics, and unrealistic i.i.d. demand assumptions. We propose MaxCOSD, an online algorithm that has provable guarantees even for problems with non-i.i.d. demands and stateful dynamics, including for instance perishability. We consider what we call non-degeneracy assumptions on the demand process, and argue that they are necessary to allow learning.
title Online Inventory Problems: Beyond the i.i.d. Setting with Online Convex Optimization
topic Optimization and Control
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06048