Zuohan Wu

Zuohan Wu

PhD student at HKUST(GZ) | Data Science & Analytics

DRLPG: Reinforced Opponent-Aware Order Pricing for Hub Mobility Services

Published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2025

Recommended citation: Zuohan Wu, Chen Jason Zhang, Han Yin, Rui Meng, Libin Zheng, Huaijie Zhu, Wei Liu. "DRLPG: Reinforced Opponent-Aware Order Pricing for Hub Mobility Services." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 3298-3311, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2025.3551147

Abstract

Building upon our previous work on opponent-aware pricing for hub mobility services, this paper develops a sophisticated deep reinforcement learning model with a novel “multi-policy fusion mechanism”. This approach enables more adaptive and profitable pricing strategies in dynamic competitive environments.

Key Contributions

  • Proposed DRLPG (Deep Reinforcement Learning Pricing with multi-policy fusion mechanism), a novel RL-based pricing framework
  • Developed a multi-policy fusion mechanism that adaptively combines different pricing strategies based on market conditions
  • Demonstrated superior performance in dynamic competitive scenarios through comprehensive experiments
  • Achieved higher profitability and better adaptation to opponent strategies compared to existing methods

Publication Details

  • Journal: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • Ranking: CCF-A, JCR Q1
  • Volume: 37, Issue 6
  • Pages: 3298-3311
  • Year: 2025
  • DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2025.3551147
  • DBLP: Link

Authors

Zuohan Wu, Chen Jason Zhang, Han Yin, Rui Meng, Libin Zheng, Huaijie Zhu, Wei Liu

This work extends our ICDE 2023 paper “Opponent-aware Order Pricing towards Hub-oriented Mobility Services” by introducing deep reinforcement learning techniques and a multi-policy fusion mechanism for more sophisticated and adaptive pricing strategies.

BibTeX

@article{DBLP:journals/tkde/WuZYMZZL25,
  author       = {Zuohan Wu and
                  Chen Jason Zhang and
                  Han Yin and
                  Rui Meng and
                  Libin Zheng and
                  Huaijie Zhu and
                  Wei Liu},
  title        = {{DRLPG:} Reinforced Opponent-Aware Order Pricing for Hub Mobility
                  Services},
  journal      = {{IEEE} Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
  volume       = {37},
  number       = {6},
  pages        = {3298--3311},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2025.3551147},
  doi          = {10.1109/TKDE.2025.3551147}
}