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Nikolaus Vertovec

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Reinforcement learning · 68% Trustworthy machine learning · 16% Motion planning and robot control · 16%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
safe reinforcement learning
0.912025
SPoRt - Safe Policy Ratio: Certified Training and Deployment of Task Policies in Model-Free RL · IJCAI 2025
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
model-free reinforcement learning
0.312025
SPoRt - Safe Policy Ratio: Certified Training and Deployment of Task Policies in Model-Free RL · IJCAI 2025
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
robustness
0.312025
SPoRt - Safe Policy Ratio: Certified Training and Deployment of Task Policies in Model-Free RL · IJCAI 2025
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
safety guarantees
0.312025
SPoRt - Safe Policy Ratio: Certified Training and Deployment of Task Policies in Model-Free RL · IJCAI 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

scenario theory · 0.9projected PPO · 0.9maximum policy ratio · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 SPoRt - Safe Policy Ratio: Certified Training and Deployment of Task Policies in Model-Free RL
abstract
To apply reinforcement learning to safety-critical applications, we ought to provide safety guarantees during both policy training and deployment. In this work we present novel theoretical results that provide a bound on the probability of violating a safety property for a new task-specific policy in a model-free, episodic setup: the bound, based on a 'maximum policy ratio' that is computed with respect to a 'safe' base policy, can also be more generally applied to temporally-extended properties (beyond safety) and to robust control problems. We thus present SPoRt, which also provides a data-driven approach for obtaining such a bound for the base policy, based on scenario theory, and which includes Projected PPO, a new projection-based approach for training the task-specific policy while maintaining a user-specified bound on property violation. Hence, SPoRt enables the user to trade off safety guarantees in exchange for task-specific performance. Accordingly, we present experimental results demonstrating this trade-off, as well as a comparison of the theoretical bound to posterior bounds based on empirical violation rates.
Jacques Cloete, Nikolaus Vertovec, Alessandro Abate
IJCAI2