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2021, THE JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH, Pages 953-992 (volume: 71)

Agent-Based Markov Modeling for Improved COVID-19 Mitigation Policies (01a Articolo in rivista)

Capobianco R., Kompella V., Ault J., Sharon G., Jong S., Fox S., Meyers L., Wurman P. R., Stone P.

The year 2020 saw the covid-19 virus lead to one of the worst global pandemics in history. As a result, governments around the world have been 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 e_ects of possible intervention policies. However, to date, even the most data-driven intervention policies rely on heuristics. In this paper, we study how reinforcement learning (RL) and Bayesian inference can be used to optimize mitigation policies that minimize economic impact without overwhelming hospital capacity. Our main contributions are (1) a novel agent-based pandemic simulator which, unlike traditional models, is able to model _ne-grained interactions among people at speci_c locations in a community; (2) an RL- based methodology for optimizing _ne-grained mitigation policies within this simulator; and (3) a Hidden Markov Model for predicting infected individuals based on partial observations regarding test results, presence of symptoms, and past physical contacts.
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