Appendix A: Related Literature

Appendix for "When and How to Lift the Lockdown? A tabulated comparison between our model and existing ones is laid out in Table A1.Approach Training Approach Modeling Scope Policy Effects Model Uncertainty Compartmental models Exhaustive parameter search Individual countries Not incorporated None Machine learning-based compartmental models Gradient descent optimization Individual countries Not incorporated Ad-hoc bootstrap estimates Bayesian mechanistic hierarchical model Posterior inference via MCMC methods Individual countries Incorporated Bayesian credible intervals Curve fitting Exhaustive parameter search Individual countries Not incorporated None Dynamic control modeling Model parameters based on expert knowledge Individual countries Incorporated None Recurrent neural networks for fatality curve modeling [49] Gradient descent optimization Individual countries Not incorporated None Compartmental Gaussian processes Stochastic gradient-based variational inference Global ...