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Entropy Regularization for Population Estimation
Ben Chugg, Peter Henderson, Jacob Goldin +1
Entropy regularization is known to improve exploration in sequential decision-making problems. We show that this same mechanism can also lead to nearly unbiased and lower-variance…
Detecting Environmental Violations with Satellite Imagery in Near Real Time: Land Application under the Clean Water Act
Ben Chugg, Nicolas Rothbacher, Alex Feng +2
This paper introduces a new, highly consequential setting for the use of computer vision for environmental sustainability. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) (aka inten…
Integrating Reward Maximization and Population Estimation: Sequential Decision-Making for Internal Revenue Service Audit Selection
Peter Henderson, Ben Chugg, Brandon Anderson +5
We introduce a new setting, optimize-and-estimate structured bandits. Here, a policy must select a batch of arms, each characterized by its own context, that would allow it to both…