Reliable reinforcement learning (RL) agents must maintain operational integrity amidst sensor malfunctions, dynamic disturbances, and slow environmental shifts. The detection of out-of-distribution conditions is pivotal to determining when an agent's observations, transitions, or trajectory dynamics deviate from the assumptions underpinning its policy training.
arXiv:2505. 02299v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) models are trained on in-distribution (ID) data but often encounter out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs during deployment---posing serious risks in safety-critical domains.
By Daisuke Yamada, Harit Vishwakarma, Ramya Korlakai Vinayak
arXiv:2607. 12523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable reinforcement learning (RL) agents must maintain operational integrity amidst sensor malfunctions, dynamic disturbances, and slow environmental shifts.
By Emil Mittag, Richard Dazeley, Peter Vamplew
arXiv:2606. 00840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents a logic-driven framework to evaluate the performance of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms in their ability to generalize to unseen tasks.
By Vignesh Subramanian, {\DJ}or{\dj}e \v{Z}ikeli\'c, Suguman Bansal
arXiv:2606. 09430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online task-free continual learning (TFCL) requires intelligent agents to sequentially accumulate knowledge from an unbounded, non-stationary data stream under strict single-pass constraints and without any explicit task identifiers.
By Mingqi Yuan, Xiaoquan Sun, Shihao Luo, Jiayu Chen
arXiv:2606. 16933v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) systems often degrade when operating conditions differ from those previously encountered, reflecting distributional shifts in the underlying data-generating process.
By Ardianto Wibowo, Paulo E Santos, Amer Baghdadi, Matthew Stephenson, Karl Sammut, Jean-Philippe Diguet
arXiv:2607. 00634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In settings such as fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, neural networks are often adapted under distribution shift.
By Darshan Patil, Ekaterina Lobacheva, Razvan Pascanu, Sarath Chandar
arXiv:2604. 00860v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a central post-training paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models.
By Huaiyang Wang, Xiaojie Li, Deqing Wang, Haoyi Zhou, Zixuan Huang, Yaodong Yang, Jianxin Li, Yikun Ban
arXiv:2607. 26509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep off-policy reinforcement learning algorithms for continuous control typically rely on neural value function approximation to guide policy improvement.
By Gong Gao, Xiao Lai, Ziqi Xie, Guojie Chen, Xianhui Liu, Weidong Zhao
arXiv:2603. 18481v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection remains a critical challenge in open-world learning, where models must adapt to evolving data distributions.
By Aditi Naiknaware, Salimeh Sekeh
arXiv:2606. 15197v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimization modeling is inherently hierarchical, requiring a precise sequence of symbolic commitments.
By Jiajun Li, Yu Ding, Shisi Guan, Ran Hou, Wanyuan Wang
arXiv:2605. 05481v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We revisit a classic "chicken-and-egg" problem in reinforcement learning: to safely improve a policy, the value function must be accurate on the state-visitation distribution of the updated policy.
By Dillon Sandhu, Ronald Parr