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TraCeS: Learning Per-Timestep Constraint-Violation Credit from Sparse Trajectory-Level Labels

arXiv:2504. 12557v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ensuring safe behavior in reinforcement learning (RL) is challenging when safety constraints are implicit and cannot be densely measured.

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Q-learning Penalized Transformer for Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning

The paper introduces Q-learning Penalized Transformer (QPT), a training–inference consistent framework for safe offline reinforcement learning. QPT trains a Transformer policy that generates actions conditioned on trajectory context and target return/cost while incorporating a Q-shaped penalty to balance safety, reward maximization, and behavior regularization. The method consistently outperforms strong baselines on 38 DSRL benchmark tasks and adapts robustly to varying constraint thresholds.

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Aug 12

Redistribution-based Cost Inference Improves Sparse Safe Offline RL

Safe offline RL typically assumes access to dense per-step cost annotations, but in practice supervisors provide only trajectory-level stop-feedback: a binary signal at the first unsafe transition, with no per-step attribution. We frame this as a temporal credit assignment problem and propose the Redistribution-based Cost Inference (RCI) framework, which converts sparse stop-feedback into dense per-step costs via return decomposition, then trains a constrained offline policy on the augmented dataset.

arXiv AI
Aug 13

Redistribution-based Cost Inference Improves Sparse Safe Offline RL

arXiv:2608. 12306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe offline RL typically assumes access to dense per-step cost annotations, but in practice supervisors provide only trajectory-level stop-feedback: a binary signal at the first unsafe transition, with no per-step attribution.

By Ebenezer Gelo (University of the Witwatersrand), Geraud Nangue Tasse (University of the Witwatersrand), Steven James (University of the Witwatersrand), Benjamin Rosman (University of the Witwatersrand)