Akihiro Kubo

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Reinforcement learning · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
actor-critic methods
0.912025
Off-Policy Actor-Critic for Adversarial Observation Robustness: Virtual Alternative Training via Symmetric Policy Evaluation · ICML 2025
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › actor-critic methods
off-policy actor-critic
0.912025
Off-Policy Actor-Critic for Adversarial Observation Robustness: Virtual Alternative Training via Symmetric Policy Evaluation · ICML 2025
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
robust reinforcement learning
0.912025
Off-Policy Actor-Critic for Adversarial Observation Robustness: Virtual Alternative Training via Symmetric Policy Evaluation · ICML 2025

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

symmetric policy evaluation · 0.9soft-constrained optimization · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Off-Policy Actor-Critic for Adversarial Observation Robustness: Virtual Alternative Training via Symmetric Policy Evaluation
abstract
Recently, robust reinforcement learning (RL) methods designed to handle adversarial input observations have received significant attention, motivated by RL’s inherent vulnerabilities. While existing approaches have demonstrated reasonable success, addressing worst-case scenarios over long time horizons requires both minimizing the agent’s cumulative rewards for adversaries and training agents to counteract them through alternating learning. However, this process introduces mutual dependencies between the agent and the adversary, making interactions with the environment inefficient and hindering the development of off-policy methods. In this work, we propose a novel off-policy method that eliminates the need for additional environmental interactions by reformulating adversarial learning as a soft-constrained optimization problem. Our approach is theoretically supported by the symmetric property of policy evaluation between the agent and the adversary. The implementation is available at https://github.com/nakanakakosuke/VALT_SAC.
Kosuke Nakanishi, Akihiro Kubo, Yuji Yasui, Shin Ishii
ICML2