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Counterfactual Estimation Accelerates A/B Tests by Reducing Variance
This work introduces a novel A/B-testing protocol that leverages counterfactual estimation and policy overlap to significantly reduce variance and accelerate experimentation. By framing randomized treatment assignment as a meta-policy, it obtains unbiased estimates for average treatment effects, outperforming standard difference-in-means estimators when policies have common support.
Practical Overview of CRM Data Migration Process
This post provides a practical overview of CRM data migration, defining it as moving data, workflows, and assets between CRM systems. It emphasizes the critical importance of accurate data for the revenue team's operational backbone.
Cars24 Scales Customer Conversations with OpenAI-Powered Agents
Cars24 leverages OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to manage over one million monthly conversation minutes, successfully recovering 12% of lost leads and integrating agentic workflows across various internal teams.
Thrad.ai Automates Sales with Multi-Agent System on Amazon Bedrock.
Thrad.ai implemented a multi-agent system using Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to automate the entire sales pipeline, from prospect discovery to personalized email generation, comparing Swarm and Graph orchestration patterns.
Google Voice Integrates Gemini for AI Call Features.
Google Voice now features Gemini AI integration, enabling automatic call recording, transcription, key point summarization, and action item extraction. This significantly automates call management and note-taking.
Top CRMs for Wholesalers in 2026 Identified
This article identifies the six best CRM systems specifically designed for wholesale businesses, highlighting features crucial for managing complex pricing, large catalogs, and integrated sales workflows. It emphasizes that generic CRMs often fall short in meeting the unique demands of wholesale operations.
ARDL Models Optimize Retail Sales Forecasting and Fair Food Pricing.
This paper proposes a methodology using log-log Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) models to forecast retail sales while embedding fairness constraints for consumer welfare. It addresses the challenge of dynamic pricing in food retail by maximizing sales subject to price bounds linked to the Consumer Price Index.
LLMs Generate Candidates for Long-Tail Vacation Rentals.
Vrbo developed a training-free, LLM-based candidate generation pipeline that uses static property metadata to serve the long tail of vacation rental listings. This system complements existing behavioral methods, significantly extending coverage and improving recommendations for sparsely interacted properties without degrading well-served ones.
New Framework for Markov Chain Choice Models
This paper introduces a framework for Markov chain (MC) choice models with panel data, focusing on parameter estimation, personalized choice prediction, and assortment optimization. It proposes novel expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms that incorporate partial-ordering preference information, outperforming traditional methods.
ChatGPT Work Boosts Sales Team Efficiency and Planning
Sales teams can utilize ChatGPT Work to generate essential documents such as pipeline briefs, meeting preparation packets, forecast reviews, account plans, and analyses for stalled deals, all based on real sales data.
PIT-SUN Improves Recommender System Regression for Heavy-Tailed Data
PIT-SUN is a new deployable framework that improves regression in recommender systems by addressing unstable gradients on heavy-tailed, zero-inflated, and multimodal targets. It uses an empirical marginal transform and multiplicative recovery to estimate original-space expectations, showing robust improvements in accuracy, calibration, and ranking quality in industrial settings.
Top Salesforce Automation Tools for Enhanced Productivity
Leveraging Salesforce automation tools can significantly reduce manual tasks, improve lead management, and boost overall productivity for sales professionals.
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