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20192025
most citedOne for Many: Transfer Learning for Building HVAC Control

57 citations · 110 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.LG2025

Directly Forecasting Belief for Reinforcement Learning with Delays

Qingyuan Wu, Yuhui Wang, Simon Sinong Zhan +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) with delays is challenging as sensory perceptions lag behind the actual events: the RL agent needs to estimate the real state of its environment based o…

cs.LG2024

Inverse Delayed Reinforcement Learning

Simon Sinong Zhan, Qingyuan Wu, Zhian Ruan +6

Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) has demonstrated effectiveness in a variety of imitation tasks. In this paper, we introduce an IRL framework designed to extract rewarding feat…

cs.LG2024

Enhancing Inverse Reinforcement Learning through Encoding Dynamic Information in Reward Shaping

Simon Sinong Zhan, Philip Wang, Qingyuan Wu +4

In this paper, we aim to tackle the limitation of the Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning (AIRL) method in stochastic environments where theoretical results cannot hold and…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Can We Trust Embodied Agents? Exploring Backdoor Attacks against Embodied LLM-based Decision-Making Systems

Ruochen Jiao, Shaoyuan Xie, Justin Yue +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant promise in real-world decision-making tasks for embodied artificial intelligence, especially when fine-tuned to leverage their i…

cs.LG2024

Variational Delayed Policy Optimization

Qingyuan Wu, Simon Sinong Zhan, Yixuan Wang +5

In environments with delayed observation, state augmentation by including actions within the delay window is adopted to retrieve Markovian property to enable reinforcement learning…

cs.LG2024

Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Strongly Delayed Feedback Through Auxiliary Short Delays

Qingyuan Wu, Simon Sinong Zhan, Yixuan Wang +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) is challenging in the common case of delays between events and their sensory perceptions. State-of-the-art (SOTA) state augmentation techniques either s…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

State-Wise Safe Reinforcement Learning With Pixel Observations

Simon Sinong Zhan, Yixuan Wang, Qingyuan Wu +3

In the context of safe exploration, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has long grappled with the challenges of balancing the tradeoff between maximizing rewards and minimizing safety vio…

cs.AI2023★ 7 cited

Empowering Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models: A Safety Perspective

Yixuan Wang, Ruochen Jiao, Sinong Simon Zhan +5

Autonomous Driving (AD) encounters significant safety hurdles in long-tail unforeseen driving scenarios, largely stemming from the non-interpretability and poor generalization of t…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Kinematics-aware Trajectory Generation and Prediction with Latent Stochastic Differential Modeling

Ruochen Jiao, Yixuan Wang, Xiangguo Liu +2

Trajectory generation and trajectory prediction are two critical tasks in autonomous driving, which generate various trajectories for testing during development and predict the tra…

cs.RO2023

Safety-Assured Speculative Planning with Adaptive Prediction

Xiangguo Liu, Ruochen Jiao, Yixuan Wang +3

Recently significant progress has been made in vehicle prediction and planning algorithms for autonomous driving. However, it remains quite challenging for an autonomous vehicle to…

eess.SY2023

POLAR-Express: Efficient and Precise Formal Reachability Analysis of Neural-Network Controlled Systems

Yixuan Wang, Weichao Zhou, Jiameng Fan +6

Neural networks (NNs) playing the role of controllers have demonstrated impressive empirical performances on challenging control problems. However, the potential adoption of NN con…

eess.SY2022★ 8 cited

Enforcing Hard Constraints with Soft Barriers: Safe Reinforcement Learning in Unknown Stochastic Environments

Yixuan Wang, Simon Sinong Zhan, Ruochen Jiao +6

It is quite challenging to ensure the safety of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in an unknown and stochastic environment under hard constraints that require the system state not…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

A Tool for Neural Network Global Robustness Certification and Training

Zhilu Wang, Yixuan Wang, Feisi Fu +4

With the increment of interest in leveraging machine learning technology in safety-critical systems, the robustness of neural networks under external disturbance receives more and…

cs.RO2022

Physics-Aware Safety-Assured Design of Hierarchical Neural Network based Planner

Xiangguo Liu, Chao Huang, Yixuan Wang +2

Neural networks have shown great promises in planning, control, and general decision making for learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (LE-CPSs), especially in improving performan…

cs.LG2022

Joint Differentiable Optimization and Verification for Certified Reinforcement Learning

Yixuan Wang, Simon Zhan, Zhilu Wang +4

In model-based reinforcement learning for safety-critical control systems, it is important to formally certify system properties (e.g., safety, stability) under the learned control…

eess.SY2021★ 5 cited

Verification in the Loop: Correct-by-Construction Control Learning with Reach-avoid Guarantees

Yixuan Wang, Chao Huang, Zhaoran Wang +2

In the current control design of safety-critical autonomous systems, formal verification techniques are typically applied after the controller is designed to evaluate whether the r…

eess.SY2021★ 1 cited

Learning-based Framework for Sensor Fault-Tolerant Building HVAC Control with Model-assisted Learning

Shichao Xu, Yangyang Fu, Yixuan Wang +2

As people spend up to 87% of their time indoors, intelligent Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in buildings are essential for maintaining occupant comfort a…

eess.SY2021★ 1 cited

Cocktail: Learn a Better Neural Network Controller from Multiple Experts via Adaptive Mixing and Robust Distillation

Yixuan Wang, Chao Huang, Zhilu Wang +3

Neural networks are being increasingly applied to control and decision-making for learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (LE-CPSs). They have shown promising performance without r…

cs.LG2021

Weak Adaptation Learning -- Addressing Cross-domain Data Insufficiency with Weak Annotator

Shichao Xu, Lixu Wang, Yixuan Wang +1

Data quantity and quality are crucial factors for data-driven learning methods. In some target problem domains, there are not many data samples available, which could significantly…

eess.SY2020★ 21 cited

Energy-Efficient Control Adaptation with Safety Guarantees for Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems

Yixuan Wang, Chao Huang, Qi Zhu

Neural networks have been increasingly applied for control in learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (LE-CPSs) and demonstrated great promises in improving system performance and…

eess.SY2020★ 57 cited

One for Many: Transfer Learning for Building HVAC Control

Shichao Xu, Yixuan Wang, Yanzhi Wang +2

The design of building heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system is critically important, as it accounts for around half of building energy consumption and directly…

cs.LG2019

Influenza Modeling Based on Massive Feature Engineering and International Flow Deconvolution

Ziming Liu, Yixuan Wang, Zizhao Han +1

In this article, we focus on the analysis of the potential factors driving the spread of influenza, and possible policies to mitigate the adverse effects of the disease. To be prec…