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Learning to Price and Stock Under Contextual and Censored Demand

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 5, 2026 · UTC

To make optimal joint pricing and inventory control decisions is a critical challenge for modern retailers. In practice, retailers face changing market conditions where demands are influenced by various contextual factors, while simultaneously dealing with the difficulty of lost sales that obscure true demand information. However, existing approaches often fail to account for both contextual information and censored demand observations. We address this gap by presenting a framework where we model demand as a linear combination of basis functions with unknown coefficients, allowing for adaptive

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