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Safe Exploration via Policy Priors
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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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Jul 21
A Survey on the Verification of Reinforcement Learning Policies
arXiv:2607. 16210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly applied in complex, safety-critical domains, yet the lack of rigorous behavioral guarantees for neural network-based policies remains a major barrier to deployment.
arXiv AI
Jun 10
Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning Through Adversarial Attacks and Training : A Survey
arXiv:2403. 00420v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a subfield of machine learning for training autonomous agents that take sequential actions across complex environments.
arXiv AI
Jun 4
Scenario Generation for Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Probably Approximately Safe Guarantees
arXiv:2606. 04812v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Guaranteeing safety is critical to the deployment of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in the real-world, especially as policies learned using deep RL may demonstrate susceptibility to transition perturbations that result in unknown or unsafe behaviour.
arXiv AI
Jun 19
CRAX: Fast Safe Reinforcement Learning Benchmarking
arXiv:2606. 20376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety is a core concern for deploying reinforcement learning (RL) agents in real-world domains such as robotics and autonomous driving.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
RoAd-RL: A Unified Library and Benchmark for Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2606. 29867v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has achieved significant success in robotics and autonomous systems, yet remains vulnerable to adversarial perturbations that can severely degrade performance.
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 AI
Jun 15
CSPO: Constraint-Sensitive Policy Optimization for Safe Reinforcement Learning
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).
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21
Information-Based Exploration via Random Features for Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607. 17981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Representation learning has enabled classical exploration strategies to be extended to deep Reinforcement Learning (RL), but often makes algorithms more complex and theoretical guarantees harder to establish.
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Integrating Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Safe Reinforcement Learning in a 1-DoF Helicopter System
arXiv:2607. 03125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) offers powerful control for industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPSs), but its "black-box" exploration risks violating strict hardware safety limits.
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Retry Policy Gradients in Continuous Action Spaces
arXiv:2606. 05888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retry-based objectives such as pass@K and max@K optimize the best return obtained from multiple sampled trajectories, and recent work has shown that they can promote exploration without explicit exploration bonuses.