Improved Algorithms for Contextual Dynamic Pricing

Neural Information Processing Systems 

In contextual dynamic pricing, a seller sequentially prices goods based on contextual information. Buyers will purchase products only if the prices are below their valuations.The goal of the seller is to design a pricing strategy that collects as much revenue as possible. We focus on two different valuation models. The first assumes that valuations linearly depend on the context and are further distorted by noise. Under minor regularity assumptions, our algorithm achieves an optimal regret bound of \tilde{\mathcal{O}}(T {2/3}), improving the existing results.