arXiv Machine Learning

Provably Safe, Yet Scalable Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 14536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn policies that optimize rewards while satisfying 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.

By Jiaming Zhang, Yujie Yang, Haoning Wang, Liping Zhang, Shengbo Eben Li
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Lightweight Safe Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End UAV Navigation

arXiv:2607. 01794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid development of autonomous aerial systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in applications such as inspection, environmental monitoring, and rescue, creating growing demand for reliable autonomous navigation.

By Shenghui Zhang, YuXuan Gao, Songwei Zhao, Jifeng Hu, Zijing Zhang, Hechang Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 12

Threat-guided Policy-aware Scene Perturbation for Safe Autonomous Driving with Online Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608. 10403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising performance in autonomous driving, yet ensuring the safety of online RL policies remains challenging due to insufficient exposure to safety-critical driving scenes.

By Xincong Hu (Nanjing University), Lei Ou (Nanjing University), Maosen Li (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Jingtao Zhang (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Liguo Hou (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Zongzhang Zhang (Nanjing University)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

SafeOR-Gym: A Benchmark Suite for Safe Reinforcement Learning Algorithms on Practical Operations Research Problems

arXiv:2506. 02255v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most existing safe reinforcement learning (RL) benchmarks focus on robotics and control tasks, offering limited relevance to high-stakes domains that involve structured constraints, mixed-integer decisions, and industrial complexity.

By Asha Ramanujam (Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN), Adam Elyoumi (Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN), Hao Chen (Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN), Sai Madhukiran Kompalli (Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN), Akshdeep Singh Ahluwalia (Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN), Shraman Pal (Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN), Dimitri J. Papageorgiou (Energy Sciences, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ), Can Li (Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)
arXiv AI
Sep 12

ActSafeGuard: Differentiable and Training-Aligned Constraint Enforcement for Flow-Matching Policies

arXiv:2609. 11697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) and World-Action Models (WAMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in general-purpose robotic manipulation, yet their generated actions may violate hard physical constraints and therefore be unsafe or infeasible for deployment.

By Jianming Ma, Rongjun Jin, Xiaxi Si, Yang Zhang, Yiheng Li, Yue Gao