Reward Design For An Online Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Supporting Oral Self-Care. (arXiv:2208.07406v3 [cs.AI] UPDATED)

Dental disease is one of the most common chronic diseases despite being
largely preventable. However, professional advice on optimal oral hygiene
practices is often forgotten or abandoned by patients. Therefore patients may
benefit from timely and personalized encouragement to engage in oral self-care
behaviors. In this paper, we develop an online reinforcement learning (RL)
algorithm for use in optimizing the delivery of mobile-based prompts to
encourage oral hygiene behaviors. One of the main challenges in developing such
an algorithm is …

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