Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Algorithmic Social Intervention   Social and behavioral interventions are a critical tool for governments and
communities to tackle deep-rooted societal challenges such as homelessness,
disease, and poverty. However, real-world interventions are almost always
plagued by limited resources and limited data, which creates a computational
challenge: how can we use algorithmic techniques to enhance the targeting and
delivery of social and behavioral interventions? The goal of my thesis is to
provide a unified study of such questions, collectively considered under the
name "algorithmic social intervention". This proposal introduces algorithmic
social intervention as a distinct area with characteristic technical
challenges, presents my published research in the context of these challenges,
and outlines open problems for future work. A common technical theme is
decision making under uncertainty: how can we find actions which will impact a
social system in desirable ways under limitations of knowledge and resources?
The primary application area for my work thus far is public health, e.g. HIV or
tuberculosis prevention. For instance, I have developed a series of algorithms
which optimize social network interventions for HIV prevention. Two of these
algorithms have been pilot-tested in collaboration with LA-area service
providers for homeless youth, with preliminary results showing substantial
improvement over status-quo approaches. My work also spans other topics in
infectious disease prevention and underlying algorithmic questions in robust
and risk-aware submodular optimization.

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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph