Emergent Mind
Functional Sequential Treatment Allocation with Covariates
(2001.10996)
Published Jan 29, 2020
in
stat.ML
,
cs.LG
,
econ.EM
,
math.ST
,
and
stat.TH
Abstract
We consider a multi-armed bandit problem with covariates. Given a realization of the covariate vector, instead of targeting the treatment with highest conditional expectation, the decision maker targets the treatment which maximizes a general functional of the conditional potential outcome distribution, e.g., a conditional quantile, trimmed mean, or a socio-economic functional such as an inequality, welfare or poverty measure. We develop expected regret lower bounds for this problem, and construct a near minimax optimal assignment policy.
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