Information Limits of Multistage Inventory Control: Learning, Valuation, and Censoring

arXiv:2609.37380 · math.OC, cs.SY, eess.SY · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

math.OC, cs.SY, eess.SY

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regret — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Sample Complexity — 5× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Minimax Regret — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Data-Driven Censored Newsvendor Problem
• What is the Value of Censored Data? An Exact Analysis for the Data-driven Newsvendor
• VC Theory for Inventory Policies

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