2405.18118
An agent design with goal reaching guarantees for enhancement of learning
Pavel Osinenko, Grigory Yaremenko, Georgiy Malaniya, Anton Bolychev, Alexander Gepperth
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- Specialist/Solid
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- Sep 28, 2025, 12:56 AM
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Audit review
Both the paper and the model prove that Algorithm 1 preserves the η-improbable goal-reaching property by showing: (i) only finitely many random “relax” actions occur (paper: Markov inequality on E[∑ξt]; model: union bound/Borel–Cantelli on ∑λt), (ii) only finitely many critic-feasible updates occur (paper: a monotone bound via Λ̂; model: a monotone bound via V̂ ≤ 0), and hence (iii) after a finite random time the trajectory follows π0 forever, yielding P[lim inf dG(St)=0] ≥ 1−η by π0’s assumption. The arguments align step-for-step with minor stylistic differences (Markov vs. BC1; Λ̂ vs. V̂ sign convention). See Theorem statement, Algorithm 1, and the proof skeleton in the paper (A.9–A.12 and the T̂/T̃ construction) .
Referee report (LaTeX)
\textbf{Recommendation:} minor revisions \textbf{Journal Tier:} specialist/solid \textbf{Justification:} The theorem is correct, with a transparent and robust proof strategy leveraging eventual fallback to a baseline. The argument is practical for safe RL and stands on mild assumptions. Minor notational and organizational clarifications would further improve readability, but no substantive issues were found.