arXiv:2307. 12022v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimizing individualized treatment sequences for patients who weigh multiple, competing outcomes differently poses a challenge for dynamic treatment regime (DTR) methods, which typically assume a single univariate outcome.
By Joshua P. Zitovsky, Yating Zou, Leslie Wilson, Michael R. Kosorok
The paper introduces POROS, a framework that uses peer‑grounded counterfactual explanations to generate incremental behavioral steps for chronic disease management. POROS builds a directed acyclic graph of patient states where each edge represents a behavior change that peers have successfully achieved and that improves health outcomes. In two diabetes cohorts, POROS reduces the required improvement per step from over 25–30 percentage points to about 5–6, while most multi‑hop paths involve cross‑patient comparisons.
By Saman Khamesian, Hassan Ghasemzadeh
The dosing of intravenous fluids and vasopressors in sepsis is a sequential decision made under uncertainty and guided largely by clinical judgment, which makes it a natural target for reinforcement learning from historical care. Because a learned policy cannot be trialed on patients, its value must be estimated off-policy, and such estimates can be fragile and optimistic.
arXiv:2508. 03875v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many sequential decision problems offer qualitatively different ways of influencing the environment: some interventions act immediately, whereas others induce persistent effects that continue to shape future states long after the decision that initiated them.
By David Mguni, Wanrong Yang, Jing Dong, Ziquan Liu, Muhammad Salman Haleem, Baoxiang Wang, Dominik Wojtczak
arXiv:2608. 16482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The dosing of intravenous fluids and vasopressors in sepsis is a sequential decision made under uncertainty and guided largely by clinical judgment, which makes it a natural target for reinforcement learning from historical care.
By Marc P\'erez-Roig, David Fern\'andez-Narro, Carlos S\'aez
arXiv:2606. 19092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chronic disease management relies on regular patient-provider interactions to follow-up on disease progression and control.
By Parisa Lotfibagha, Kristen Miller, William J. Gallagher, Elizabeth B. Selden, Muge Capan