Publications

Publications

1. Sample Complexity of Policy Learning for Inventory Control with Censored Demand
   Finalist, INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize, 2022
   Xiaoyu Fan, Boxiao Chen and Zhengyuan Zhou
   Second-round major revision at Management Science

2. No-Regret Learning in Multi-Retailer Inventory Control
   Xiaoyu Fan, Boxiao Chen, Wenqiang Xiao and Zhengyuan Zhou
   Third-round focused major revision at Management Science

3. Sample Complexity of Inventory Control with Setup Costs Beyond Plug-in Demand Estimation
   Finalist, Data Mining Best Student Paper Competition, 2025
   Finalist, INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition, 2024
   Xiaoyu Fan and Zhengyuan Zhou
   Major revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

4. Learning to Bid in Non-Stationary Repeated First-Price Auctions
   Zihao Hu, Xiaoyu Fan, Yuan Yao, Jiheng Zhang and Zhengyuan Zhou
   Minor revision at Operations Research

5. Product Return as a Sequence of Search Processes: Optimality and Search Duration
   Xiaoyu Fan, Srikanth Jagabathula, Zijian Liu and Eitan Muller
   Second-round major revision at Operations Research

6. Personalized Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning: The Impact of Growing Effective Dimensionality
   Gah-Yi Ban, Xiaoyu Fan, Yanjun Han, Srikanth Jagabathula, N. Bora Keskin and Zhengyuan Zhou
   Major revision at Operations Research

7. Don’t Follow RL Blindly: Lower Sample Complexity of Learning Optimal Inventory Control Policies with Fixed Ordering Costs
   Xiaoyu Fan, Boxiao Chen, Tava Lennon Olsen, Hanzhang Qin and Zhengyuan Zhou
   Production and Operations Management, 2025

Working Papers

1. Towards Optimal Inventory Control under Censored Demand: A Biased Sample-Average Approximation Approach
   Yuxuan Han, Xiaoyu Fan, Jiawei Zhang and Zhengyuan Zhou
   Under review at Operations Research

2. Optimal Sample Complexity of Distributionally Robust Direct Preference Optimization
   Xiaoyu Fan, Ruyue Qian, Will Ma, Sean X. Zhou and Zhengyuan Zhou

3. Leveraging Product Variations for Personalized Dynamic Pricing
   Yanjun Han, Xiaoyu Fan, Srikanth Jagabathula and Zhengyuan Zhou

4. Generative AI, Model Collapse and Intellectual Property Policy
   Xiaoyu Fan, Arun Sundararajan and Zhengyuan Zhou