#  CRCS Summer Fellows presentation - Aviva Prins 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **August 10, 2020** 

 12:45PM - 01:10PM EDT 

 



 

##  [Aviva Prins](/people/aviva-prins), University of Maryland, College Park

###  Human-in-the-Loop Resource Allocation in Restless Multi-Armed Bandits and Their Application to Public Health Interventions

 ![Aviva Prins](/sites/g/files/omnuum6171/files/crcs/files/img_people_aviva_prins.jpg)

 

We investigate Collapsing Bandits, a new restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) setting in which each arm follows a partially-observable binary-state Markovian process. We demonstrate that state-of-the-art algorithms that keep as many arms in the 'good' state as possible allocate a limited budget of actions per round to a small subset of arms, while neglecting others. Our main contribution is a human-in-the-loop model. This model guarantees the enforcement of safety constraints on agent behavior and encourages explainable policies. We compare simulations to real-world data where a health worker must monitor and deliver interventions to maximize their patients' adherence to a tuberculosis prescription plan.###  Co-mentors

 Milind Tambe & Rediet Abebe



 

 



 

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