AI RESEARCH
SafeAdapt: Provably Safe Policy Updates in Deep Reinforcement Learning
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.09452v1 Announce Type: cross Safety guarantees are a prerequisite to the deployment of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in safety-critical tasks. Often, deployment environments exhibit non-stationary dynamics or are subject to changing performance goals, requiring updates to the learned policy. This leads to a fundamental challenge: how to update an RL policy while preserving its safety properties on previously encountered tasks? The majority of current approaches either do not provide formal guarantees or verify policy safety only a posteriori.