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most citedDesigning Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Digital Interventions: Pre-implementation Guidelines

32 citations · 35 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CY2025

Reproducible workflow for online AI in digital health

Susobhan Ghosh, Bhanu T. Gullapalli, Daiqi Gao +5

Online artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are an important component of digital health interventions. These online algorithms are designed to continually learn and improve the…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

A Deployed Online Reinforcement Learning Algorithm In An Oral Health Clinical Trial

Anna L. Trella, Kelly W. Zhang, Hinal Jajal +4

Dental disease is a prevalent chronic condition associated with substantial financial burden, personal suffering, and increased risk of systemic diseases. Despite widespread recomm…

cs.CY2024

Effective Monitoring of Online Decision-Making Algorithms in Digital Intervention Implementation

Anna L. Trella, Susobhan Ghosh, Erin E. Bonar +10

Online AI decision-making algorithms are increasingly used by digital interventions to dynamically personalize treatment to individuals. These algorithms determine, in real-time, t…

stat.ME2024

Replicable Bandits for Digital Health Interventions

Kelly W. Zhang, Nowell Closser, Anna L. Trella +1

Adaptive treatment assignment algorithms, such as bandit algorithms, are increasingly used in digital health intervention clinical trials. Frequently, the data collected from these…

cs.AI2024

Oralytics Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

Anna L. Trella, Kelly W. Zhang, Stephanie M. Carpenter +6

Dental disease is still one of the most common chronic diseases in the United States. While dental disease is preventable through healthy oral self-care behaviors (OSCB), this basi…

cs.LG2024

Monitoring Fidelity of Online Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in Clinical Trials

Anna L. Trella, Kelly W. Zhang, Inbal Nahum-Shani +4

Online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms offer great potential for personalizing treatment for participants in clinical trials. However, deploying an online, autonomous algori…

cs.LG2024

Non-Stationary Latent Auto-Regressive Bandits

Anna L. Trella, Walter Dempsey, Asim H. Gazi +3

For the non-stationary multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem, many existing methods allow a general mechanism for the non-stationarity, but rely on a budget for the non-stationarity tha…

cs.AI2022★ 1 cited

Reward Design For An Online Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Supporting Oral Self-Care

Anna L. Trella, Kelly W. Zhang, Inbal Nahum-Shani +3

Dental disease is one of the most common chronic diseases despite being largely preventable. However, professional advice on optimal oral hygiene practices is often forgotten or ab…

cs.LG2022★ 32 cited

Designing Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Digital Interventions: Pre-implementation Guidelines

Anna L. Trella, Kelly W. Zhang, Inbal Nahum-Shani +3

Online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are increasingly used to personalize digital interventions in the fields of mobile health and online education. Common challenges in d…

cs.AI2021★ 1 cited

Discrepancies in Epidemiological Modeling of Aggregated Heterogeneous Data

Anna L. Trella, Peniel N. Argaw, Michelle M. Li +1

Within epidemiological modeling, the majority of analyses assume a single epidemic process for generating ground-truth data. However, this assumed data generation process can be un…