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most citedCollapsing Bandits and Their Application to Public Health Interventions

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cs.LG2020

Dual-Mandate Patrols: Multi-Armed Bandits for Green Security

Lily Xu, Elizabeth Bondi, Fei Fang +3

Conservation efforts in green security domains to protect wildlife and forests are constrained by the limited availability of defenders (i.e., patrollers), who must patrol vast are…

cs.LG2020★ 15 cited

Collapsing Bandits and Their Application to Public Health Interventions

Aditya Mate, Jackson A. Killian, Haifeng Xu +2

We propose and study Collpasing Bandits, a new restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) setting in which each arm follows a binary-state Markovian process with a special structure: when…

cs.CY2020★ 3 cited

Game Theory on the Ground: The Effect of Increased Patrols on Deterring Poachers

Lily Xu, Andrew Perrault, Andrew Plumptre +4

Applications of artificial intelligence for wildlife protection have focused on learning models of poacher behavior based on historical patterns. However, poachers' behaviors are d…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Automatically Learning Compact Quality-aware Surrogates for Optimization Problems

Kai Wang, Bryan Wilder, Andrew Perrault +1

Solving optimization problems with unknown parameters often requires learning a predictive model to predict the values of the unknown parameters and then solving the problem using…

cs.CY2020★ 9 cited

AI for Social Impact: Learning and Planning in the Data-to-Deployment Pipeline

Andrew Perrault, Fei Fang, Arunesh Sinha +1

With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems research, we have a tremendous opportunity to direct these advances towards addressing complex societal problems. In pursuit of this…