Reinforced Contact Tracing and Epidemic Intervention

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08251v1
• Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 08:31:48 GMT
• Title: Reinforced Contact Tracing and Epidemic Intervention
• Authors: Tao Feng, Sirui Song, Tong Xia, Yong Li
• Abstract summary: We develop an Individual-based Reinforcement Learning Epidemic Control Agent (IDRLECA) to search for smart epidemic control strategies. IDRLECA can suppress infections at a very low level and retain more than 95% of human mobility.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The recent outbreak of COVID-19 poses a serious threat to people's lives. Epidemic control strategies have also caused damage to the economy by cutting off humans' daily commute. In this paper, we develop an Individual-based Reinforcement Learning Epidemic Control Agent (IDRLECA) to search for smart epidemic control strategies that can simultaneously minimize infections and the cost of mobility intervention. IDRLECA first hires an infection probability model to calculate the current infection probability of each individual. Then, the infection probabilities together with individuals' health status and movement information are fed to a novel GNN to estimate the spread of the virus through human contacts. The estimated risks are used to further support an RL agent to select individual-level epidemic-control actions. The training of IDRLECA is guided by a specially designed reward function considering both the cost of mobility intervention and the effectiveness of epidemic control. Moreover, we design a constraint for control-action selection that eases its difficulty and further improve exploring efficiency. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that IDRLECA can suppress infections at a very low level and retain more than 95% of human mobility.

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