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Confounding Masquerading as Improvement: A Systematic Evaluation of Offline Reinforcement Learning for Stroke Antithrombotic Treatment in a 129,000-Patient Registry
AI InsightThis study systematically evaluates offline RL on 129,000 stroke patients, finding apparent improvements (+0.0069 to +0.0101) largely come from reward-embedded confounding rather than real efficacy. Previous positive conclusions on offline RL medical policies thus need re-examination.Key TakeawayReward-embedded confounding inflates offline RL evaluation by 218.6%.Why It MattersFirst large-scale quantification of confounding bias in medical offline RL, urging corrected evaluation for clinical AI policies.Who's Affected- AI ResearchersNeed to rebuild offline RL evaluation with confounding detection and factorial analysis.
- Medical AI DevelopersSeparate prognosis from treatment effect to avoid spurious gains.
- RegulatorsRequire counterfactual and confounding validation for clinical RL policies.
What's NextWatch for standardized confounding calibration methods and re-tests of RL in other disease areas.Importance 82/100