arXiv Machine Learning July 23, 2026 By Wenjie Huang, Yang Li, Jingjia Teng, Mingwei Jin, Kai Song, Zeyu Yang, Qisong Yang, Yougang Bian

Safety-Regulated Transfer Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Teacher Guidance

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arXiv:2606. 26527v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose Safety-Regulated Adaptive Transfer Reinforcement Learning (SRATRL), a teacher--student framework that combines safety-triggered intervention, safety-adaptive value shaping, and policy-compatibility-based optimization for efficient target-domain adaptation.

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