Towards Soft Fairness in Restless Multi-Armed Bandits. (arXiv:2207.13343v1 [cs.LG])

Restless multi-armed bandits (RMAB) is a framework for allocating limited
resources under uncertainty. It is an extremely useful model for monitoring
beneficiaries and executing timely interventions to ensure maximum benefit in
public health settings (e.g., ensuring patients take medicines in tuberculosis
settings, ensuring pregnant mothers listen to automated calls about good
pregnancy practices). Due to the limited resources, typically certain
communities or regions are starved of interventions that can have follow-on
effects. To avoid starvation in the executed interventions across …

arxiv fairness lg multi-armed bandits