arXiv:2601. 22993v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Canary, a risk-averse method designed to optimize Value-at-Risk (VaR) constrained reinforcement learning (RL) problems.
By Rohan Tangri, Jan-Peter Calliess
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.
arXiv:2609.34426v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of safe offline reinforcement learning, which involves training a policy to satisfy safety constraints using an of...
By Shengchao Hu, Peng Wang, Jifeng Hu, Qiyang Zhou, Anning Hu, Li Shen, Ya Zhang, Dacheng Tao
arXiv:2607. 15457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study robust peak-cost constrained reinforcement learning (RP-CRL), where the objective is to maximize expected reward while controlling the maximum cost encountered along a trajectory.
By Shilpa Mukhopadhyay, Sourav Ganguly, Santosh Mohan Rajkumar, Honghao Wei, Debdipta Goswami, Arnob Ghosh
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: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)
arXiv:2608.30122v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) driving methods increasingly combine multi-trajectory imitation learning with group-relative policy optimization (GRPO),...
By Tian Zhang, Zhuo Huang, Hongrui Ye, Yu Wu, Zengmao Wang, Kaixuan Zhou
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:2606. 14415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe reinforcement learning (Safe RL) aims to maximize expected return while satisfying safety constraints, typically modeled as Constrained Markov Decision Processes (CMDPs).
By Ayoub Belouadah, Sylvain Kubler, Yves Le Traon
arXiv:2606. 10228v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe exploration is a prerequisite for deploying reinforcement learning (RL) agents in safety-critical domains.
By Kaustubh Mani, Yann Pequignot, Vincent Mai, Liam Paull
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.
By Paolo Magliano, Puze Liu, Jan Peters, Davide Tateo, Raffaello Camoriano
arXiv:2606. 14029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constrained MDPs (CMDPs) are a widely adopted framework for incorporating safety into RL agents; however, the framework does not support risk-sensitive constraints.
By Mehrdad Moghimi, Bernardo Avila Pires