Field study in deploying restless multi-armed bandits: Assisting non-profits in improving maternal and child health

A Mate, L Madaan, A Taneja, N Madhiwalla… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
The widespread availability of cell phones has enabled non-profits to deliver critical health
information to their beneficiaries in a timely manner. This paper describes our work to assist …

[PDF][PDF] Restless Multi-Armed Bandits for Maternal and Child Health: Results from Decision-Focused Learning.

S Verma, A Mate, K Wang, N Madhiwalla, A Hegde… - …, 2023 - projects.iq.harvard.edu
ABSTRACT Mobile Health Awareness programs in underserved communities often suffer
from diminishing engagement over time and health workers have to make live service calls …

Learning infinite-horizon average-reward restless multi-action bandits via index awareness

G **ong, S Wang, J Li - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We consider the online restless bandits with average-reward and multiple actions, where the
state of each arm evolves according to a Markov decision process (MDP), and the reward of …