The year 2020 has seen the COVID-19 virus lead to one of the worst global pandemics in history. As a result, governments around the world are faced with the challenge of protecting public health, while keeping the economy running to the greatest extent possible. Epidemiological models provide insight into the spread of these types of diseases and predict the effects of possible intervention policies. However, to date, the even the most data-driven intervention policies rely on heuristics. In this paper, we study how reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to optimize mitigation policies that minimize the economic impact without overwhelming the hospital capacity. Our main contributions are (1) a novel agent-based pandemic simulator which, unlike traditional models, is able to model fine-grained interactions among people at specific locations in a community; and (2) an RL-based methodology for optimizing fine-grained mitigation policies within this simulator. Our results validate both the overall simulator behavior and the learned policies under realistic conditions.
Reinforcement learning for optimization of COVID-19 mitigation policies / Kompella, V.; Capobianco, R.; Jong, S.; Browne, J.; Fox, S.; Meyers, L.; Wurman, P.; Stone, P.. - 2884:(2020). (Intervento presentato al convegno 2020 AAAI Fall Symposium on AI for Social Good, AI4SG 2020 tenutosi a Virtual).
Reinforcement learning for optimization of COVID-19 mitigation policies
Capobianco R.
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2020
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The year 2020 has seen the COVID-19 virus lead to one of the worst global pandemics in history. As a result, governments around the world are faced with the challenge of protecting public health, while keeping the economy running to the greatest extent possible. Epidemiological models provide insight into the spread of these types of diseases and predict the effects of possible intervention policies. However, to date, the even the most data-driven intervention policies rely on heuristics. In this paper, we study how reinforcement learning (RL) can be used to optimize mitigation policies that minimize the economic impact without overwhelming the hospital capacity. Our main contributions are (1) a novel agent-based pandemic simulator which, unlike traditional models, is able to model fine-grained interactions among people at specific locations in a community; and (2) an RL-based methodology for optimizing fine-grained mitigation policies within this simulator. Our results validate both the overall simulator behavior and the learned policies under realistic conditions.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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