Oral Presentation: Reinforcement Learning for Digital Health Interventions in the Dyadic Setting
Abstract: We present our ongoing work on the development of an online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm for dyadic digital intervention settings in which the task for the RL algorithm is to assist the target person with a difficult illness be adherent to behavioral activities. To achieve this goal the RL algorithm will not only deliver digital interventions to the target person but also deliver interventions to assist the care partner to manage caregiving burden and help the two individuals improve their relationship. That is, different RL components target different elements of the dyad. The RL algorithm is a multi-agent RL algorithm in which the 3 agents make decisions on the 3 elements of the dyad. We incorporate domain knowledge in the form of approximal causal directed acyclic graphs to speed up online learning in this sparse data setting. This work is…