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Traditional dynamic pricing in e-commerce often relies on rule-based heuristics or data-driven models that struggle to interpret unstructured data (like product reviews) and prioritize short-term gains at the expense of long-term business health. The authors introduce AIGP (Artificial Intelligence Generated Pricing), a framework that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning to make interpretable, long-term-aligned pricing decisions.
The framework operates through three main components:
The authors validated AIGP through extensive offline evaluations and large-scale online A/B tests on the Tao Factory platform. Compared to the existing production baseline, AIGP achieved a 13.21% increase in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV), a 7.59% increase in Return on Investment (ROI), and an 8.20% improvement in milestone achievement rates over a 14-day period. Beyond these quantitative gains, the framework provides interpretable pricing rationales, allowing operators to understand the logic behind specific discount adjustments.
This paper demonstrates that LLMs can be successfully integrated into high-stakes, sequential decision-making environments like e-commerce pricing. By combining the reasoning capabilities of LLMs with the long-horizon optimization of reinforcement learning, AIGP addresses the common trade-off between model interpretability and business performance. The use of distillation and offline RL provides a scalable path for deploying complex models in production environments where online exploration is risky.
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