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most citedOvercoming the Curse of Dimensionality in Reinforcement Learning Through Approximate Factorization

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cs.LG2026

T2S-MPC: Time-Embedded Online Adaptive Model Predictive Control for Time-Varying Dynamics

Zeyu Shen, Zhuoyuan Wang, Laixi Shi

Recent advances in learning-based model predictive control (MPC) have leveraged neural networks for online model learning, achieving strong performance when nonstationary system dy…

cs.AI2026★ 2 cited

Understanding Agent Scaling in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems via Diversity

Yingxuan Yang, Chengrui Qu, Muning Wen +5

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a promising approach to tackle complex tasks that are difficult for individual LLMs. A natural strategy is to scale performance…

cs.RO2025

SPiDR: A Simple Approach for Zero-Shot Safety in Sim-to-Real Transfer

Yarden As, Chengrui Qu, Benjamin Unger +6

Deploying reinforcement learning (RL) safely in the real world is challenging, as policies trained in simulators must face the inevitable sim-to-real gap. Robust safe RL techniques…

cs.LG2025

KL-regularization Itself is Differentially Private in Bandits and RLHF

Yizhou Zhang, Kishan Panaganti, Laixi Shi +2

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a rigorous framework for privacy, ensuring the outputs of data-driven algorithms remain statistically indistinguishable across datasets that diff…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Robust Gymnasium: A Unified Modular Benchmark for Robust Reinforcement Learning

Shangding Gu, Laixi Shi, Muning Wen +5

Driven by inherent uncertainty and the sim-to-real gap, robust reinforcement learning (RL) seeks to improve resilience against the complexity and variability in agent-environment s…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality in Reinforcement Learning Through Approximate Factorization

Chenbei Lu, Laixi Shi, Zaiwei Chen +2

Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms are known to suffer from the curse of dimensionality, which refers to the fact that large-scale problems often lead to exponentially high sam…

cs.LG2024

Hybrid Transfer Reinforcement Learning: Provable Sample Efficiency from Shifted-Dynamics Data

Chengrui Qu, Laixi Shi, Kishan Panaganti +2

Online Reinforcement learning (RL) typically requires high-stakes online interaction data to learn a policy for a target task. This prompts interest in leveraging historical data t…

cs.AI2024

Conceptual Belief-Informed Reinforcement Learning

Xingrui Gu, Chuyi Jiang, Laixi Shi

Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved significant success but is hindered by inefficiency and instability, relying on large amounts of trial-and-error data and failing to effici…

cs.LG2024

Breaking the Curse of Multiagency in Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Laixi Shi, Jingchu Gai, Eric Mazumdar +2

Standard multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms are vulnerable to sim-to-real gaps. To address this, distributionally robust Markov games (RMGs) have been proposed to…

cs.LG2024

Distributionally Robust Constrained Reinforcement Learning under Strong Duality

Zhengfei Zhang, Kishan Panaganti, Laixi Shi +3

We study the problem of Distributionally Robust Constrained RL (DRC-RL), where the goal is to maximize the expected reward subject to environmental distribution shifts and constrai…

cs.GT2024

Tractable Equilibrium Computation in Markov Games through Risk Aversion

Eric Mazumdar, Kishan Panaganti, Laixi Shi

A significant roadblock to the development of principled multi-agent reinforcement learning is the fact that desired solution concepts like Nash equilibria may be intractable to co…

cs.LG2024

Enhancing Efficiency of Safe Reinforcement Learning via Sample Manipulation

Shangding Gu, Laixi Shi, Yuhao Ding +4

Safe reinforcement learning (RL) is crucial for deploying RL agents in real-world applications, as it aims to maximize long-term rewards while satisfying safety constraints. Howeve…

cs.LG2024

Sample-Efficient Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in the Face of Environmental Uncertainty

Laixi Shi, Eric Mazumdar, Yuejie Chi +1

To overcome the sim-to-real gap in reinforcement learning (RL), learned policies must maintain robustness against environmental uncertainties. While robust RL has been widely studi…