Hari Narayan

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
0009-0004-2011-8206ORCID · reported

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Theoretical computer science
1 paper
Mathematical optimization · 100%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Computational finance and economics · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Computational finance and economics › pricing
dynamic pricing
0.812024
Dynamic Pricing for Multi-Retailer Delivery Platforms with Additive Deep Learning and Evolutionary Optimization · KDD 2024
Mathematical optimization › evolutionary computation
evolutionary optimization
0.812024
Dynamic Pricing for Multi-Retailer Delivery Platforms with Additive Deep Learning and Evolutionary Optimization · KDD 2024
Mathematical optimization › evolutionary computation
genetic algorithm
0.812024
Dynamic Pricing for Multi-Retailer Delivery Platforms with Additive Deep Learning and Evolutionary Optimization · KDD 2024

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

genetic algorithm · 1.5bandit algorithms · 1.5adversarial data augmentation · 1.5additive neural network · 1.5
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 Dynamic Pricing for Multi-Retailer Delivery Platforms with Additive Deep Learning and Evolutionary Optimization
abstract
Dynamic Pricing for online retail has been discussed extensively in literature. However, past solutions fell short of addressing the unique challenges of independent multi-retailer platforms for grocery delivery. From limited visibility of retailers' inventories to diverse demand-side dynamics across retail brands and locations, the highly decentralized nature of multi-retailer platforms deviates from the classical framework of modeling price elasticity and cross-elasticity of demand. In this paper, we present a novel scheme to scalable and practical price adjustment in the highly dynamic multi-retailer context. First, we present a deep learning framework to distinctly model complex cross-elasticity relationships via additive neural networks augmented with adversarial data. Second, we present evolutionary optimization agents for adjusting itemized prices in a location-decentralized manner, while adhering to custom business constraints and objectives. The optimization utilizes the genetic algorithm structure, where we introduce a potential mechanism, inspired by bandit algorithms, in order to improve convergence speed by managing exploitation and exploration trade-offs. Our solution is deployed at Shipt and is extendable to other types of multi-retailer platforms, such as restaurant delivery. Finally, we empirically demonstrate performance using public and industry datasets of hundreds and thousands of diverse products across tens of stores, offering an optimization targets coverage scale in the tens of thousands, far larger than experimental setups in past research.
Ahmed Abdulaal, Ali Polat, Hari Narayan, Wenrong Zeng, Yimin Yi
KDD3