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Ashish Gaurav
dblp:236/4881
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3ranked-venue papers
1as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 1 first-author · 3 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
3 papers |
Reinforcement learning · 74% Robot manipulation · 11% Planning, search and constraint satisfaction · 11% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › imitation learning
inverse reinforcement learning |
2.2 | 3 | 2025 | Understanding Constraint Inference in Safety-Critical Inverse Reinforcement Learning · ICLR 2025 Benchmarking Constraint Inference in Inverse Reinforcement Learning · ICLR 2023 Learning Soft Constraints From Constrained Expert Demonstrations · ICLR 2023 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › imitation learning › inverse reinforcement learning
constraint inference |
1.5 | 2 | 2025 | Understanding Constraint Inference in Safety-Critical Inverse Reinforcement Learning · ICLR 2025 Benchmarking Constraint Inference in Inverse Reinforcement Learning · ICLR 2023 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
constrained reinforcement learning |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Learning Soft Constraints From Constrained Expert Demonstrations · ICLR 2023 |
Robotics › Robot manipulation
learning from demonstration |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Learning Soft Constraints From Constrained Expert Demonstrations · ICLR 2023 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Planning, search and constraint satisfaction
soft constraints |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Learning Soft Constraints From Constrained Expert Demonstrations · ICLR 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
tri-level optimization · 0.9sample complexity analysis · 0.9constrained expert demonstrations · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Understanding Constraint Inference in Safety-Critical Inverse Reinforcement LearningabstractIn practical applications, the underlying constraint knowledge is often unknown and difficult to specify. To address this issue, recent advances in Inverse Constrained Reinforcement Learning (ICRL) have focused on inferring these constraints from expert demonstrations. However, the ICRL approach typically characterizes constraint learning as a tri-level optimization problem, which is inherently complex due to its interdependent variables and multiple layers of optimization.
Considering these challenges, a critical question arises: *Can we implicitly embed constraint signals into reward functions and effectively solve this problem using a classic reward inference algorithm?* The resulting method, known as Inverse Reward Correction (IRC), merits investigation. In this work, we conduct a theoretical analysis comparing the sample complexities of both solvers. Our findings confirm that the IRC solver achieves lower sample complexity than its ICRL counterpart.
Nevertheless, this reduction in complexity comes at the expense of generalizability. Specifically, in the target environment, the reward correction terms may fail to guarantee the safety of the resulting policy, whereas this issue can be effectively mitigated by transferring the constraints via the ICRL solver.
Advancing our inquiry, we investigate conditions under which the ICRL solver ensures $\epsilon$-optimality when transferring to new environments. Empirical results across various environments validate our theoretical findings, underscoring the nuanced trade-offs between complexity reduction and generalizability in safety-critical applications. Bo Yue, Shufan Wang, Ashish Gaurav, Pascal Poupart, Guiliang Liu |
ICLR | 3 |
| 2023 | Learning Soft Constraints From Constrained Expert Demonstrations
Ashish Gaurav, Kasra Rezaee, Guiliang Liu, Pascal Poupart |
ICLR | 1 |
| 2023 | Benchmarking Constraint Inference in Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Guiliang Liu, Yudong Luo, Ashish Gaurav, Kasra Rezaee, Pascal Poupart |
ICLR | 3 |