VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Daniele Foffano
dblp:265/5018
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 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
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 67% Reinforcement learning · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
conditional trajectory generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Adversarial Diffusion for Robust Reinforcement Learning · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Adversarial Diffusion for Robust Reinforcement Learning · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
robust reinforcement learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Adversarial Diffusion for Robust Reinforcement Learning · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
diffusion model · 0.9conditional sampling · 0.9CVaR optimization · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Adversarial Diffusion for Robust Reinforcement LearningabstractRobustness to modeling errors and uncertainties remains a central challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). In this work, we address this challenge by leveraging diffusion models to train robust RL policies. Diffusion models have recently gained popularity in model-based RL due to their ability to generate full trajectories "all at once", mitigating the compounding errors typical of step-by-step transition models. Moreover, they can be conditioned to sample from specific distributions, making them highly flexible. We leverage conditional sampling to learn policies that are robust to uncertainty in environment dynamics. Building on the established connection between Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) optimization and robust RL, we introduce Adversarial Diffusion for Robust Reinforcement Learning (AD-RRL). AD-RRL guides the diffusion process to generate worst-case trajectories during training, effectively optimizing the CVaR of the cumulative return. Empirical results across standard benchmarks show that AD-RRL achieves superior robustness and performance compared to existing robust RL methods. Daniele Foffano, Alessio Russo, Alexandre Proutière |
NeurIPS | 1 |