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cs.AI2026

Optimizing Minimax Regret in Uncertain MDPs with Small Sets of Policies

Sterre Lutz, Daniël Vos, Matthijs T. J. Spaan +1

Sequential decision-making in real-world applications often involves uncertainty about the environment's model. Uncertain Markov decision processes (UMDPs) represent the possible e…

cs.LG2026

Training on Irrelevant States Implies Data Augmentation: Generalization in Contextual MDPs

Max Weltevrede, Caroline Horsch, Matthijs T. J. Spaan +1

The paper shows that training reinforcement‑learning agents on additional, irrelevant states acts like data augmentation and can improve zero‑shot generalization in contextual MDPs…

cs.LG2026

Generalization in offline RL: The structure is more important than the amount of pessimism

Max Weltevrede, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Wendelin Böhmer

While pessimism counteracts overestimation bias in offline reinforcement learning (RL), being overly conservative has been associated with hindering certain forms of generalization…

cs.RO2026

COP-Q: Safety-First Reinforcement Learning for Robot Control via Cholesky-Ordered Projection

Guopeng Li, Moritz A. Zanger, Matthijs T. J. Spaan +1

Safe robot control requires maximizing return while satisfying safety constraints. In off-policy safe reinforcement learning, reward and safety Q-values are commonly learned by sep…

cs.LG2026

PMCTS: Particle Monte Carlo Tree Search for Principled Parallelized Inference Time Scaling

Yaniv Oren, Viliam Vadocz, Joery A. de Vries +3

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a widely used approach for policy improvement through search with increasing popularity for real world applications. Due to the sequential and det…

cs.LG2026

Twice Sequential Monte Carlo for Tree Search

Yaniv Oren, Joery A. de Vries, Pascal R. van der Vaart +2

Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) methods that leverage search are responsible for many milestone breakthroughs in RL. Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) recently emerged as an alt…