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Poster

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

Massil HIHAT · Stéphane Gaïffas · Guillaume Garrigos · Simon Bussy

Great Hall & Hall B1+B2 (level 1) #923
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Wed 13 Dec 3 p.m. PST — 5 p.m. PST

Abstract:

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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