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New PAITS method controls false discoveries in online treatment selection

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Researchers have developed a novel method called Partial-Feedback Adaptive Individualized Treatment Selection (PAITS) for online treatment selection with partial feedback. This approach aims to identify individuals who would benefit most from a treatment while controlling for false discoveries. PAITS initializes learning from historical data and uses sequential estimation, randomized exploration, and feedback-driven updates to achieve asymptotic false discovery rate control and sublinear regret compared to an oracle. The method's performance is demonstrated through simulations and an analysis of the Jester recommendation dataset. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more accurate and efficient personalized treatment assignment in various applications, including healthcare and recommendation systems.

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New PAITS method controls false discoveries in online treatment selection

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Runzhe Gu, Zinan Zhao, Wenguang Sun, Xintao Xia ·

    Online Individualized Treatment Selection under Partial Feedback: False Discovery Control and Minimax Optimality

    arXiv:2610.16464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study online individualized treatment selection when only the outcome under the assigned treatment is observed. Our objective is to preferentially treat individuals whose potential outcomes under treatment exceed a covariate-spec…

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