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Contrasting Cost-Agnostic and Cost-Sensitive Losses under Limited Model Capacity via -consistency
Jessica Finocchiaro, Sanket Shah, Milind Tambe
There is a prevalent debate in machine learning about whether practitioners should train models to optimize a task-agnostic objective (e.g., cross entropy) or incorporate the downs…
Finite-Horizon Single-Pull Restless Bandits: An Efficient Index Policy For Scarce Resource Allocation
Guojun Xiong, Haichuan Wang, Yuqi Pan +4
Restless multi-armed bandits (RMABs) have been highly successful in optimizing sequential resource allocation across many domains. However, in many practical settings with highly s…
Efficient Public Health Intervention Planning Using Decomposition-Based Decision-Focused Learning
Sanket Shah, Arun Suggala, Milind Tambe +1
The declining participation of beneficiaries over time is a key concern in public health programs. A popular strategy for improving retention is to have health workers `intervene'…
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Index-Based Treatment Allocation
Niclas Boehmer, Yash Nair, Sanket Shah +3
When resources are scarce, an allocation policy is needed to decide who receives a resource. This problem occurs, for instance, when allocating scarce medical resources and is ofte…
Leaving the Nest: Going Beyond Local Loss Functions for Predict-Then-Optimize
Sanket Shah, Andrew Perrault, Bryan Wilder +1
Predict-then-Optimize is a framework for using machine learning to perform decision-making under uncertainty. The central research question it asks is, "How can the structure of a…
Decision-Focused Learning without Differentiable Optimization: Learning Locally Optimized Decision Losses
Sanket Shah, Kai Wang, Bryan Wilder +2
Decision-Focused Learning (DFL) is a paradigm for tailoring a predictive model to a downstream optimization task that uses its predictions in order to perform better on that specif…
Scalable Decision-Focused Learning in Restless Multi-Armed Bandits with Application to Maternal and Child Health
Kai Wang, Shresth Verma, Aditya Mate +5
This paper studies restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) problems with unknown arm transition dynamics but with known correlated arm features. The goal is to learn a model to predict…
Data-Driven Methods for Balancing Fairness and Efficiency in Ride-Pooling
Naveen Raman, Sanket Shah, John Dickerson
Rideshare and ride-pooling platforms use artificial intelligence-based matching algorithms to pair riders and drivers. However, these platforms can induce inequality either through…
Q-Learning Lagrange Policies for Multi-Action Restless Bandits
Jackson A. Killian, Arpita Biswas, Sanket Shah +1
Multi-action restless multi-armed bandits (RMABs) are a powerful framework for constrained resource allocation in which independent processes are managed. However, previous wor…
Learning MDPs from Features: Predict-Then-Optimize for Sequential Decision Problems by Reinforcement Learning
Kai Wang, Sanket Shah, Haipeng Chen +3
In the predict-then-optimize framework, the objective is to train a predictive model, mapping from environment features to parameters of an optimization problem, which maximizes de…