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8 papers

cs.LG2026

Calibrated Partial Resets: Preventing Policy Collapse in Continual Reinforcement Learning

Luc McCutcheon, Evangelos Chatzaroulas, Saber Fallah

Neural networks are hindered by accumulating dormant neurons and loss of expressivity throughout training, particularly in non-stationary data settings, such as continual supervise…

cs.AI2026

ANDRE: An Attention-based Neuro-symbolic Differentiable Rule Extractor for Inductive Logic Programming

Iman Sharifi, Peng Wei, Saber Fallah

Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) aims to learn interpretable first-order rules from data, but existing symbolic and neuro-symbolic approaches struggle to scale to noisy and probab…

cs.RO2026

Reinforcement Learning Enhancement Using Vector Semantic Representation and Symbolic Reasoning for Human-Centered Autonomous Emergency Braking

Vinal Asodia, Iman Sharifi, Saber Fallah

The problem with existing camera-based Deep Reinforcement Learning approaches is twofold: they rarely integrate high-level scene context into the feature representation, and they r…

cs.RO2026

Offline Reinforcement Learning using Human-Aligned Reward Labeling for Autonomous Emergency Braking in Occluded Pedestrian Crossing

Vinal Asodia, Barkin Dagda, Yinglong He +2

Effective leveraging of real-world driving datasets is crucial for enhancing the training of autonomous driving systems. While Offline Reinforcement Learning enables training auton…

cs.LG2025

Symbolic Imitation Learning: From Black-Box to Explainable Driving Policies

Iman Sharifi, Mustafa Yildirim, Saber Fallah

Current imitation learning approaches, predominantly based on deep neural networks (DNNs), offer efficient mechanisms for learning driving policies from real-world datasets. Howeve…

cs.RO2025

Towards Safe Autonomous Driving Policies using a Neuro-Symbolic Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Iman Sharifi, Mustafa Yildirim, Saber Fallah

The dynamic nature of driving environments and the presence of diverse road users pose significant challenges for decision-making in autonomous driving. Deep reinforcement learning…