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7 papers

eess.SY2026

Planning Stealthy Backdoor Attacks in MDPs with Observation-Based Triggers

Xinyi Wei, Shuo Han, Ahmed H. Hemida +2

This paper investigates backdoor attack planning in stochastic control systems modeled as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). A backdoor attack involves an adversary deploying a poli…

eess.SY2026

IMAS: Joint Agent Selection and Information-Theoretic Coordinated Perception In Dec-POMDPs

Chongyang Shi, Wesley A. Suttle, Michael Dorothy +1

We study the problem of jointly selecting sensing agents and synthesizing decentralized active perception policies for the chosen subset of agents within a Decentralized Partially…

eess.SY2026

C-IDS: Solving Contextual POMDP via Information-Directed Objective

Chongyang Shi, Michael Dorothy, Jie Fu

We study the policy synthesis problem in contextual partially observable Markov decision processes (CPOMDPs), where the environment is governed by an unknown latent context that in…

eess.SY2025

Policy Gradient Methods for Information-Theoretic Opacity in Markov Decision Processes

Chongyang Shi, Sumukha Udupa, Michael R. Dorothy +2

Opacity, or non-interference, is a property ensuring that an external observer cannot infer confidential information (the "secret") from system observations. We introduce an inform…

eess.SY2025

Integrated Control and Active Perception in POMDPs for Temporal Logic Tasks and Information Acquisition

Chongyang Shi, Michael R. Dorothy, Jie Fu

This paper studies the synthesis of a joint control and active perception policy for a stochastic system modeled as a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP), subject…

eess.SY2025

Active Inference through Incentive Design in Markov Decision Processes

Xinyi Wei, Chongyang Shi, Shuo Han +3

We present a method for active inference with partial observations in stochastic systems through incentive design, also known as the leader-follower game. Consider a leader agent w…