Personalized Health Coaching: Classical Machine Learning vs Reinforcement Learning
摘要
This work discusses supervised machine learning models’ application on personalized health mentoring using various data sets emphasizing sleep, lifestyle, and student well-being. We experimented with models like K-Nearest Neighbours (KNN), Decision Trees, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines (SVM), and Random Forests. All the models were stringently tested on metrics such as accuracy and F1-score. The datasets tested were “Obesity Data Set,” “Sleep Health and Lifestyle Dataset,” and “Student Lifestyle Dataset,” which each offered chief attributes like demographic, behavioural, and health metrics. Steps in preprocessing included missing data management, feature scaling, and categorial variable encoding. Although favourable results were realized—reflected in accuracy figures over 90% in multiple instances—the non-dynamic, static nature of these models limits their adaptability to real-world, dynamic health coaching scenarios. Reinforcement Learning (RL), by virtue of continuous feedback-based learning and optimization ability, is argued to be the better paradigm. This paper lays down an underlying comparison of supervised models with RL, recommending the latter in dynamic as well as user-adaptive situations.