Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Retail and Logistics

Dynamic Pricing and Markdown Optimisation

Sets prices and markdowns from forecast demand, stock and competitor prices.

Named Models

The research names no model for this use case.

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Models the research names for this use case. Research, with sources on each model record.

Who Runs It

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Documented uses by named organisations. The evidence column says who made the claim.

Candidate Models

TabArena: All Tasks, no imputation, snapshot 2026-05-06, 59 entries

A general benchmark for this model class, not a test on this use case. Elo across tabular tasks, anchored RandomForest default = 1000; TabPFN-lab researchers are involved. Higher is better. Elo has no zero, so the axis starts at 1,200. Showing 10 of 13.

AmazonAutoGluon 1.5Amazon maintainer-run1,700Prior LabsTabPFN-2.6Prior Labs maintainer-run1,626Prior LabsRealTabPFN-2.5Prior Labs maintainer-run1,604INRIATabICL v2INRIA maintainer-run1,598INRIARealMLPINRIA maintainer-run1,514Layer 6 AITabDPTLayer 6 AI maintainer-run1,460YandexTabMYandex maintainer-run1,448Microsoft AILightGBMMicrosoft AI maintainer-run1,435YandexCatBoostYandex maintainer-run1,418DMLC communityXGBoostDMLC community maintainer-run1,376
1,2001,5001,800
GoogleTimesFM 3.0Google, time seriesReleasedAug 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsDMLC communityXGBoostDMLC community, tabularReleasedAug 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsMicrosoft AILightGBMMicrosoft AI, tabularReleasedJul 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsDatadogToto 2.0 1BDatadog, time seriesReleasedJun 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsDatadogToto 2.0 2.5BDatadog, time seriesReleasedJun 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsDatadogToto 2.0 313MDatadog, time seriesReleasedJun 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsPrior LabsTabPFN-2.6Prior Labs, tabularReleasedMar 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsIBMGranite PatchTST-FM r1IBM, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, time seriesReleasedMar 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsYandexCatBoostYandex, tabularReleasedFeb 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 monthsAmazonAutoGluon 1.5Amazon, tabularReleased2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 months

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Derived, not researched: models in the directory whose class matches a class this use case uses, excluding family records and models shut down or deprecated. Ranked by how many fit facts they meet, then by release date. Each fit fact is read from the model record.

Sources

  1. deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone3/us/en/docs/services/... https://www.deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone3/us/en/docs/services/consulting/2026/ai-use-cases-consumer-2026.pdf

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Dynamic Pricing and Markdown Optimisation", https://aurion.semai.id/usecases/ret-dynamic-pricing-markdown/, records of October 2026.