This paper investigates the impact of pre-existing offline data on online learning, in the context of dynamic pricing. We study a single-product dynamic pricing problem over a selling horizon of T periods. The demand in each period is determined by the price of the product according to a linear...

We study a single product pricing problem with demand censoring in an offline data-driven setting. In this problem, a retailer is given a finite amount of inventory, and faces a random demand that is price sensitive in a linear fashion with unknown price sensitivity and base demand distribution....