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Conditional Expectation based Value Decomposition for Scalable On-Demand Ride Pooling
Avinandan Bose, Pradeep Varakantham
Owing to the benefits for customers (lower prices), drivers (higher revenues), aggregation companies (higher revenues) and the environment (fewer vehicles), on-demand ride pooling…
Field Study in Deploying Restless Multi-Armed Bandits: Assisting Non-Profits in Improving Maternal and Child Health
Aditya Mate, Lovish Madaan, Aparna Taneja +6
The widespread availability of cell phones has enabled non-profits to deliver critical health information to their beneficiaries in a timely manner. This paper describes our work t…
Facilitating human-wildlife cohabitation through conflict prediction
Susobhan Ghosh, Pradeep Varakantham, Aniket Bhatkhande +6
With increasing world population and expanded use of forests as cohabited regions, interactions and conflicts with wildlife are increasing, leading to large-scale loss of lives (an…
CLAIM: Curriculum Learning Policy for Influence Maximization in Unknown Social Networks
Dexun Li, Meghna Lowalekar, Pradeep Varakantham
Influence maximization is the problem of finding a small subset of nodes in a network that can maximize the diffusion of information. Recently, it has also found application in HIV…
Learn to Intervene: An Adaptive Learning Policy for Restless Bandits in Application to Preventive Healthcare
Arpita Biswas, Gaurav Aggarwal, Pradeep Varakantham +1
In many public health settings, it is important for patients to adhere to health programs, such as taking medications and periodic health checks. Unfortunately, beneficiaries may g…
Selective Intervention Planning using Restless Multi-Armed Bandits to Improve Maternal and Child Health Outcomes
Siddharth Nishtala, Lovish Madaan, Aditya Mate +11
India has a maternal mortality ratio of 113 and child mortality ratio of 2830 per 100,000 live births. Lack of access to preventive care information is a major contributing factor…