Summary of Offline Inverse Constrained Reinforcement Learning For Safe-critical Decision Making in Healthcare, by Nan Fang et al.
Offline Inverse Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Safe-Critical Decision Making in Healthcare
by Nan Fang, Guiliang Liu, Wei Gong
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach called Constraint Transformer (CT) for constrained reinforcement learning (CRL) in healthcare. The authors identify the limitations of current CRL methods in specifying cost functions, which can lead to unsafe medical decisions. They introduce Inverse Constrained Reinforcement Learning (ICRL), which infers constraints from expert demonstrations and models Markovian decisions in interactive environments. However, this approach does not align with practical requirements for decision-making systems in healthcare, where offline datasets are used to make treatment decisions. The proposed CT method incorporates historical decisions and observations using a causal attention mechanism and weighted constraints to capture critical states. It also employs a generative world model for exploratory data augmentation to simulate unsafe decision sequences. Experimental results demonstrate that CT can reduce the occurrence probability of unsafe behaviors and achieve strategies with lower mortality rates in multiple medical scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this paper, scientists are working on a way to help doctors make better decisions about treatment. They want to avoid making mistakes that can harm patients. Currently, computers are taught to make decisions by trying different options and seeing what happens. However, this method is not safe for medicine because it might suggest bad treatments. The researchers propose a new approach called Constraint Transformer (CT) that takes into account the rules of medicine and the history of how doctors have made treatment decisions in the past. They also test their CT model on different medical scenarios to see if it can make better decisions than current methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Data augmentation » Probability » Reinforcement learning » Transformer
