IRL for restless multi-armed bandits with applications in maternal and child health

• Main Authors: JAIN, Gauri, VARAKANTHAM, Pradeep, XU, Haifeng, TANEJA, Aparna, DOSHI, Prashant, TAMBE, Milind
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Health Information Technology; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9778; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10778/viewcontent/pricai_irl_paper_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Public health practitioners often have the goal of monitoring patients and maximizing patients’ time spent in “favorable” or healthy states while being constrained to using limited resources. Restless multi-armed bandits (RMAB) are an effective model to solve this problem as they are helpful to allo...