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Current literature mainly focuses on estimating treatment regimes from a single source population. In real-world applications, the distribution of a target population can be different from that of the source population. Therefore, treatment regimes learned by existing methods may not generalize well to the target popu- lation. Because of privacy concerns and other practical issues, individual-level data from the target population are often not available, which makes treatment regime learning more challenging. We consider the problem of treatment regime estimation when the source and target populations may be heterogeneous, individual-level data are available from the source population and only the summary information of covariates, such as moments, is accessible from the target population. We develop a weighting framework that tailors a treatment regime for a given target population by leveraging the available summary statistics. Specifically, we propose a calibrated augmented inverse probability weighted estimator of the value function for the target population and estimate an optimal treatment regime by maximizing this estimator within a class of prespecified regimes. We show that the proposed calibrated estimator is consistent and asymptotically normal even with flexible semi\/nonparametric models for nuisance function approximation, and that the variance of the value estimator can be consistently estimated. 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