Avoiding starvation of arms in restless multi-armed bandit

• Main Authors: LI, Dexun, VARAKANTHAM, Pradeep
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Automated calls; Community OR; Fairness; Optimizing performance; Patient health; Restless multi-armed bandit; Softmax; Uncertainty; Whittle indexs; Workers'; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8593; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9596/viewcontent/Avoiding_Starvation_of_Arms_in_Restless_Multi_Armed_Bandits.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Restless multi-armed bandits (RMAB) is a popular framework for optimizing performance with limited resources under uncertainty. It is an extremely useful model for monitoring beneficiaries (arms) and executing timely interventions using health workers (limited resources) to ensure optimal benefit in...