arXiv AI
Jun 10
SHAPO: Sharpness-Aware Policy Optimization for Safe Exploration
arXiv:2606. 10228v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe exploration is a prerequisite for deploying reinforcement learning (RL) agents in safety-critical domains.
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Evaluation Metrics for Safe Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces new evaluation metrics for safe reinforcement learning that go beyond average safety guarantees by examining how often and how severely safety bounds are violated, consistency across tasks and bounds, and the relationship between training-time and final policy behavior. It also proposes a safety tier system for categorizing algorithms and presents empirical safety evaluations on multiple navigation tasks. The authors recommend reporting aggregate metrics, distributional data, and task‑specific results together, and provide an open‑source suite, SafeRLEval, to facilitate reliable safety assessment.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1
Safe Online Learning via Smooth Safety-Structured Policy Composition
arXiv:2606. 31320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe online reinforcement learning requires policies to respect safety constraints while maintaining smooth optimization dynamics.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
Safe Exploration via Policy Priors
arXiv:2601. 19612v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe exploration is a key requirement for reinforcement learning (RL) agents to learn and adapt online, beyond controlled (e.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27
Safe In-Context Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2509. 25582v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In-context reinforcement learning (ICRL) is an emerging RL paradigm where an agent, after pretraining, can adapt to out-of-distribution test tasks without any parameter updates, instead relying on an expanding context of interaction history.
arXiv AI
Jul 10
Safe Flow Q-Learning: Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning with Reachability-Based Flow Policies
arXiv:2603. 15136v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Offline safe reinforcement learning (RL) seeks reward-maximizing policies from static datasets under strict safety constraints.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 3
Exchange Policy Optimization Algorithm for Semi-Infinite Safe Reinforcement Learning
The paper introduces Exchange Policy Optimization (EPO), a framework for semi‑infinite safe reinforcement learning that handles infinitely many constraints by iteratively solving finite subproblems. EPO expands or deletes constraints based on tolerance violations and Lagrange multipliers, maintaining computational tractability while converging to an optimal policy with bounded safety violations. The authors prove finite convergence, provide iteration bounds, and quantify the suboptimality gap under mild assumptions.
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Jul 14
Directional Constraints for Efficient Exploration in Safe Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning has revolutionized the landscape of robotic research, allowing robust learning of complex robotic skills in simulation. However, real-world deployment in open-ended environments requires strong safety guarantees to prevent dangerous or harmful behaviors.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
Agentic Safety is an Epistemic Property, Not a Behavioral One
arXiv:2606. 28347v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contemporary AI safety spans pre-training interventions, post-training alignment, deployment-time controls, monitoring, and red-teaming.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4
Explainably Safe Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2606. 04634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trust in a decision-making system requires both safety guarantees and the ability to interpret and understand its behavior.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15
Directional Constraints for Efficient Exploration in Safe Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607. 12784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning has revolutionized the landscape of robotic research, allowing robust learning of complex robotic skills in simulation.
arXiv AI
Sep 2
Provably Safe Sim-to-Real Transfer
arXiv:2609.01418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To mitigate the sample complexity of real-world reinforcement learning (RL), a common practice is to first train a policy in a simulator, where sampl...