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20192026
most citedAn Inductive Synthesis Framework for Verifiable Reinforcement Learning

52 citations · 66 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.RO2026

TerraTransfer++: Demonstration-Free End-to-End Planner

Zikang Xiong, Weixin Li, Zhouchonghao Wu +6

End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and real-world deployments. Its standard training recipe, however, is expensive across all exi…

cs.MA2026

Generalizable Multi-Agent Planning from Signal Temporal Logic Specifications via Diffusion

Joe Eappen, Zikang Xiong, Shreyash S. Iyengar +1

Multi-agent systems in the real-world (e.g., drone swarms, autonomous cars, warehouse robots) must satisfy rich, temporal tasks while avoiding collisions. Signal Temporal Logic (ST…

cs.CV2026

TerraTransfer: Learning End-to-End Driving Policies Without Expert Demonstrations

Zikang Xiong, Weixin Li, Zhouchonghao Wu +6

End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and real-world deployments. Its standard training recipe, however, is expensive across all sta…

cs.RO2025

A Framework for Learning Scoring Rules in Autonomous Driving Planning Systems

Zikang Xiong, Joe Kurian Eappen, Suresh Jagannathan

In autonomous driving systems, motion planning is commonly implemented as a two-stage process: first, a trajectory proposer generates multiple candidate trajectories, then a scorin…

cs.MA2025★ 1 cited

Scaling Safe Multi-Agent Control for Signal Temporal Logic Specifications

Joe Eappen, Zikang Xiong, Dipam Patel +2

Existing methods for safe multi-agent control using logic specifications like Signal Temporal Logic (STL) often face scalability issues. This is because they rely either on single-…

cs.RO2024

SELP: Generating Safe and Efficient Task Plans for Robot Agents with Large Language Models

Yi Wu, Zikang Xiong, Yiran Hu +5

Despite significant advancements in large language models (LLMs) that enhance robot agents' understanding and execution of natural language (NL) commands, ensuring the agents adher…

cs.RO2024

Manipulating Neural Path Planners via Slight Perturbations

Zikang Xiong, Suresh Jagannathan

Data-driven neural path planners are attracting increasing interest in the robotics community. However, their neural network components typically come as black boxes, obscuring the…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Co-learning Planning and Control Policies Constrained by Differentiable Logic Specifications

Zikang Xiong, Daniel Lawson, Joe Eappen +2

Synthesizing planning and control policies in robotics is a fundamental task, further complicated by factors such as complex logic specifications and high-dimensional robot dynamic…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Defending Observation Attacks in Deep Reinforcement Learning via Detection and Denoising

Zikang Xiong, Joe Eappen, He Zhu +1

Neural network policies trained using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) are well-known to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. In this paper, we consider attacks manifesting as p…

cs.RO2022

Model-free Neural Lyapunov Control for Safe Robot Navigation

Zikang Xiong, Joe Eappen, Ahmed H. Qureshi +1

Model-free Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) controllers have demonstrated promising results on various challenging non-linear control tasks. While a model-free DRL algorithm can s…

eess.SY2021★ 7 cited

Scalable Synthesis of Verified Controllers in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Zikang Xiong, Suresh Jagannathan

There has been significant recent interest in devising verification techniques for learning-enabled controllers (LECs) that manage safety-critical systems. Given the opacity and la…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Robustness to Adversarial Attacks in Learning-Enabled Controllers

Zikang Xiong, Joe Eappen, He Zhu +1

Learning-enabled controllers used in cyber-physical systems (CPS) are known to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. Such attacks manifest as perturbations to the states generated…

cs.LG2019★ 52 cited

An Inductive Synthesis Framework for Verifiable Reinforcement Learning

He Zhu, Zikang Xiong, Stephen Magill +1

Despite the tremendous advances that have been made in the last decade on developing useful machine-learning applications, their wider adoption has been hindered by the lack of str…