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eess.SY2026

Exact Decomposition of Adversarial Dual-Objective Value Functions, with Applications to Optimal Drug Dosing

Dylan Hirsch, William Sharpless, Sylvia Herbert

The paper proves that certain decompositions of dual‑objective value functions remain valid when an adversary is present, and demonstrates how this can be used to design optimal dr…

cs.RO2026

Bellman Value Decomposition for Task Logic in Safe Optimal Control

William Sharpless, Oswin So, Dylan Hirsch +2

Real-world tasks involve nuanced combinations of goal and safety specifications. In high dimensions, the challenge is exacerbated: formal automata become cumbersome, and the combin…

cs.RO2026

Value Functions for Temporal Logic: Optimal Policies and Safety Filters

Oswin So, William Sharpless, Sylvia Herbert +1

While Bellman equations for basic reach, avoid, and reach-avoid problems are well studied, the relationship between value optimality and policy optimality becomes subtle in the und…

cs.AI2025

Dual-Objective Reinforcement Learning with Novel Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Formulations

William Sharpless, Dylan Hirsch, Sander Tonkens +2

Hard constraints in reinforcement learning (RL) often degrade policy performance. Lagrangian methods offer a way to blend objectives with constraints, but require intricate reward…

cs.RO2025

MADR: MPC-guided Adversarial DeepReach

Ryan Teoh, Sander Tonkens, William Sharpless +4

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) Reachability offers a framework for generating safe value functions and policies in the face of adversarial disturbance, but is limited by the curse of dimensi…

eess.SY2025

State-Augmented Linear Games with Antagonistic Error for High-Dimensional, Nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability

Will Sharpless, Yat Tin Chow, Sylvia Herbert

Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability (HJR) is a popular method for analyzing the liveness and safety of a dynamical system with bounded control and disturbance. The corresponding HJ value…