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.
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By Fanqi Wang, Weisheng Tang, Hairong Qi
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By Matthias Wei{\ss}, Athreya Hosahalli Prakash, Maurice Artelt, Falk Dettinger, Nasser Jazdi, Michael Weyrich
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By Yuting Wu, Dongfang Guo, Xiangzhong Luo, Qun Song, Rui Tan
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By Junjian Zhang, Hao Tan, Ruonan Li, Dong Zhu, Aiping Li, Zhaoquan Gu
arXiv:2602. 01515v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deploying learned control policies is risky because policies that appear robust in simulation can confidently enter out-of-distribution (OOD) states after Sim-to-Real transfer, causing silent failures and potential hardware damage.
By Humphrey Munn, Brendan Tidd, Peter Bohm, Marcus Gallagher, David Howard