no code implementations • 8 Apr 2020 • Maria Chikina, Wesley Pegden
We use a simple SIR-like epidemic model which integrates known age-contact patterns for the United States to model the effect of age-targeted mitigation strategies for a COVID-19-like epidemic.
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2019 • Maria-Florina Balcan, Travis Dick, Wesley Pegden
We apply our semi-bandit results to obtain the first provable guarantees for data-driven algorithm design for linkage-based clustering and we improve the best regret bounds for designing greedy knapsack algorithms.