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Taming sequential decision-making with reinforcement learning: non-stationarity, heterogen — NSF Award to Washington University (M

Many decision-making tasks in healthcare, business, and economics can be naturally framed as online sequential decision-making problems, where decisions are made and outcomes are observed iteratively to achieve long-term objectives. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a powerful framework and has achieved significant su

Award titleTaming sequential decision-making with reinforcement learning: non-stationarity, heterogen
Award ID2515896
AwardeeWashington University
CitySAINT LOUIS
StateMO
Amount obligated$149,997
Principal investigatorRan Chen
ProgramOFFICE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY AC, STATISTICS
Start date09/01/2025
AbstractMany decision-making tasks in healthcare, business, and economics can be naturally framed as online sequential decision-making problems, where decisions are made and outcomes are observed iteratively to achieve long-term objectives. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a powerful framework and has achieved significant success in engineering domains, including robotics and gaming. However, human-centered tasks — such as those in healthcare and business — pose substantial new challenges for RL. Thes
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