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| author | Aldridge, Irene Bae, Ellie Darak, Siddhesh Donat, Nicholas Fernando-Bell, Akhil Ge, Bella Goguen-Compagnoni, Nicholas Gupta, Ishita Hasan, Ali Hoenigman, Pierce Isa-Dutse, Imran Jeong, Jiwon Khanna, Tishya Konduru, Neha Liu, Yixuan Maeda, Kai McKenna, Nolan Muller, Karl Naeem, Farzaan Patel, Rishabh Sheldon, Zachary Syed, Ammar Tai, Nathan Twersky, Michael Wang, Haoying Wang, Zening Yao, Zexun Yochman, Nadav |
| author_facet | Aldridge, Irene Bae, Ellie Darak, Siddhesh Donat, Nicholas Fernando-Bell, Akhil Ge, Bella Goguen-Compagnoni, Nicholas Gupta, Ishita Hasan, Ali Hoenigman, Pierce Isa-Dutse, Imran Jeong, Jiwon Khanna, Tishya Konduru, Neha Liu, Yixuan Maeda, Kai McKenna, Nolan Muller, Karl Naeem, Farzaan Patel, Rishabh Sheldon, Zachary Syed, Ammar Tai, Nathan Twersky, Michael Wang, Haoying Wang, Zening Yao, Zexun Yochman, Nadav |
| contents | Municipal 311 call centers and complaint intake systems face a structural mismatch between incoming volume and classification capacity. The staff and heuristics available to triage, route, and prioritize complaints cannot scale with demand. This bottleneck produces differential service quality that follows income and racial lines (\cite{liu2024sla}). We develop an equity-centered reinforcement learning (RL) framework that augments call classification capacity across six New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) operational domains: boiler safety, crane and derrick oversight, heat and hot water complaints, housing complaint triage, scaffold safety, and Natural Area District (SNAD) protection.
Rather than replacing human classifiers, our agents act as intelligent intake routers: learning to assign incoming complaints to action categories: escalate, batch, defer, inspect now. The proposed technique is designed to maximize throughput, minimize misclassification cost, and actively narrow historical equity gaps in service delivery. We formalize each domain as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) in which equitable classification coverage is a first-class reward objective. Post-hoc SHAP attribution reveals that complaint recurrence and neighborhood-level statistics are stronger predictors of actionable violations than raw complaint volume. This finding has direct implications for complaint routing given the demographic correlates of those features. |
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| spellingShingle | Scaling the Queue: Reinforcement Learning for Equitable Call Classification Capacity in NYC Municipal Complaint Systems Aldridge, Irene Bae, Ellie Darak, Siddhesh Donat, Nicholas Fernando-Bell, Akhil Ge, Bella Goguen-Compagnoni, Nicholas Gupta, Ishita Hasan, Ali Hoenigman, Pierce Isa-Dutse, Imran Jeong, Jiwon Khanna, Tishya Konduru, Neha Liu, Yixuan Maeda, Kai McKenna, Nolan Muller, Karl Naeem, Farzaan Patel, Rishabh Sheldon, Zachary Syed, Ammar Tai, Nathan Twersky, Michael Wang, Haoying Wang, Zening Yao, Zexun Yochman, Nadav Econometrics Computers and Society J.1 Municipal 311 call centers and complaint intake systems face a structural mismatch between incoming volume and classification capacity. The staff and heuristics available to triage, route, and prioritize complaints cannot scale with demand. This bottleneck produces differential service quality that follows income and racial lines (\cite{liu2024sla}). We develop an equity-centered reinforcement learning (RL) framework that augments call classification capacity across six New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) operational domains: boiler safety, crane and derrick oversight, heat and hot water complaints, housing complaint triage, scaffold safety, and Natural Area District (SNAD) protection. Rather than replacing human classifiers, our agents act as intelligent intake routers: learning to assign incoming complaints to action categories: escalate, batch, defer, inspect now. The proposed technique is designed to maximize throughput, minimize misclassification cost, and actively narrow historical equity gaps in service delivery. We formalize each domain as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) in which equitable classification coverage is a first-class reward objective. Post-hoc SHAP attribution reveals that complaint recurrence and neighborhood-level statistics are stronger predictors of actionable violations than raw complaint volume. This finding has direct implications for complaint routing given the demographic correlates of those features. |
| title | Scaling the Queue: Reinforcement Learning for Equitable Call Classification Capacity in NYC Municipal Complaint Systems |
| topic | Econometrics Computers and Society J.1 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06482 |