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5 papers

math.OC2026

Towards Tsallis Fully Probabilistic Design

Vyacheslav Kungurtsev, Giovanni Russo

Fully Probabilistic design (FPD) is a powerful framework offering an elegant and unifying account of stochastic control, learning and decision-making. Here we introduce a generaliz…

math.OC2026

Free-Energy Minimizing Policies Under Generative Model Ambiguity

Arash Shafiei, Caio César Graciani Rodrigues, Giovanni Russo

We present a variational free-energy formulation for distributionally robust decision-making with ambiguity in the generative model. The formulation, related to a broad range of le…

cs.RO2026

Learning-Based Robust Control: Unifying Exploration and Distributional Robustness for Reliable Robotics via Free Energy

Hozefa Jesawada, Giovanni Russo, Abdalla Swikir +1

A key challenge towards reliable robotic control is devising computational models that can both learn policies and guarantee robustness when deployed in the field. Inspired by the…

cs.AI2025

Distributionally Robust Free Energy Principle for Decision-Making

Allahkaram Shafiei, Hozefa Jesawada, Karl Friston +1

Despite their groundbreaking performance, autonomous agents can misbehave when training and environmental conditions become inconsistent, with minor mismatches leading to undesirab…

cs.LG2025

DR-PETS: Learning-Based Control With Planning in Adversarial Environments

Hozefa Jesawada, Antonio Acernese, Giovanni Russo +1

Ensuring robustness against epistemic, possibly adversarial, perturbations is essential for reliable real-world decision-making. While the Probabilistic Ensembles with Trajectory S…