activity
20232026
most citedSafety Margins for Reinforcement Learning

3 citations · 8 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

17 papers

cs.CV2026

Field Converter: Geometry-Initialized Temporal Residual Refinement for World-Grounded Player Pose Estimation from Soccer Broadcasts

Simon Khan, Laurent Gajny, Jennyfer Lecompte +1

Recovering 3D human pose from monocular sports broadcasts remains challenging when players must be localized in a shared metric world coordinate system rather than only reconstruct…

cs.MA2026

MUTE: Return-Preserving Communication Unlearning for Efficient Multi-Agent Coordination

Rui Zuo, Qinwei Huang, Mingyang Li +3

Inter-agent communication is critical for coordinating Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) agents under partial observability to perform effectively in cooperative games; how…

cs.CV2026

Reasoning-aware Speculative Decoding for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving

Anh Dung Dinh, Simon Khan, Flora Salim

Modern Vision-Language-Action (VLA) planners for autonomous driving emit a chain-of-causation (CoC) reasoning step \emph{before} producing a trajectory. The reasoning is autoregres…

cs.LG2026

ROAD-VLA: Robust Online Adaptation via Self-Distillation for Vision-Language-Action Models

Kejing Wang, Toan Nguyen, Minh Hoang Nguyen +2

Effective online adaptation of vision-language-action (VLA) models remains challenging, as sparse rewards provide weak supervision for high-dimensional autoregressive action polici…

cs.LG2026

Experience Constrained Hierarchical Federated Reinforcement Learning for Large-scale UAV Teams in Hazardous Environments

Qinwei Huang, Rui Zuo, Simon Khan +1

Conventional federated learning assumes that greater learner participation improves training performance, by leveraging abundant, independently generated local data. However, in fe…

cs.AI2026

Distilling Deep Reinforcement Learning into Interpretable Fuzzy Rules: An Explainable AI Framework

Sanup S. Araballi, Simon Khan, Chilukuri K. Mohan

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agents achieve remarkable performance in continuous control but remain opaque, hindering deployment in safety-critical domains. Existing explainab…

cs.MA2025

Predictive Auxiliary Learning for Belief-based Multi-Agent Systems

Qinwei Huang, Stefan Wang, Simon Khan +2

The performance of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in partially observable environments depends on effectively aggregating information from observations, communications,…

cs.DS2025

Linearithmic Clean-up for Vector-Symbolic Key-Value Memory with Kroneker Rotation Products

Ruipeng Liu, Qinru Qiu, Simon Khan +1

A computational bottleneck in current Vector-Symbolic Architectures (VSAs) is the ``clean-up'' step, which decodes the noisy vectors retrieved from the architecture. Clean-up typic…

cs.AI2025

EMAC+: Embodied Multimodal Agent for Collaborative Planning with VLM+LLM

Shuang Ao, Flora D. Salim, Simon Khan

Although LLMs demonstrate proficiency in several text-based reasoning and planning tasks, their implementation in robotics control is constrained by significant deficiencies: (1) L…

cs.LG2025

Near-Optimal Sample Complexity for Iterated CVaR Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model

Zilong Deng, Simon Khan, Shaofeng Zou

In this work, we study the sample complexity problem of risk-sensitive Reinforcement Learning (RL) with a generative model, where we aim to maximize the Conditional Value at Risk (…

cs.AI2024

Why the Agent Made that Decision: Contrastive Explanation Learning for Reinforcement Learning

Rui Zuo, Simon Khan, Zifan Wang +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable success in solving complex decision-making problems, yet its adoption in critical domains is hindered by the lack of interpr…

cs.LG2024

Criticality and Safety Margins for Reinforcement Learning

Alexander Grushin, Walt Woods, Alvaro Velasquez +1

State of the art reinforcement learning methods sometimes encounter unsafe situations. Identifying when these situations occur is of interest both for post-hoc analysis and during…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Combining AI Control Systems and Human Decision Support via Robustness and Criticality

Walt Woods, Alexander Grushin, Simon Khan +1

AI-enabled capabilities are reaching the requisite level of maturity to be deployed in the real world, yet do not always make correct or safe decisions. One way of addressing these…

cs.MA2024★ 2 cited

Multi-agent Cooperative Games Using Belief Map Assisted Training

Qinwei Huang, Chen Luo, Alex B. Wu +3

In a multi-agent system, agents share their local observations to gain global situational awareness for decision making and collaboration using a message passing system. When to se…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

REVEAL-IT: REinforcement learning with Visibility of Evolving Agent poLicy for InTerpretability

Shuang Ao, Simon Khan, Haris Aziz +1

Understanding the agent's learning process, particularly the factors that contribute to its success or failure post-training, is crucial for comprehending the rationale behind the…

cs.LG2023

CODEX: A Cluster-Based Method for Explainable Reinforcement Learning

Timothy K. Mathes, Jessica Inman, Andrés Colón +1

Despite the impressive feats demonstrated by Reinforcement Learning (RL), these algorithms have seen little adoption in high-risk, real-world applications due to current difficulti…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Safety Margins for Reinforcement Learning

Alexander Grushin, Walt Woods, Alvaro Velasquez +1

Any autonomous controller will be unsafe in some situations. The ability to quantitatively identify when these unsafe situations are about to occur is crucial for drawing timely hu…