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  1. Safe Meta-Policy Design with Risk Control

    Oct 7, 2026Wenbin Zhou, Michael Lingzhi Li, Shixiang ZhuSafe RLRisk-Sensitive RL

    Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University · Technology and Operations Management, Harvard Business School

  2. Safe on Average, Unsafe in the Tail: When Is the Episodic-Cost Tail Controllable?

    Oct 7, 2026Samuel Tetteh, Cody FlemingSafe RLConstrained RL

    Iowa State University Ames, Iowa, USA

  3. Variance-Averse nn-Step Offline Reinforcement Learning for Sparse Long-Horizon Environments

    Oct 6, 2026Guhyeon Kang, Minhae KwonDistributional RLRisk-Sensitive RL

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea

  4. Risk-Sensitive Crowd Navigation with Adaptive Ellipsoidal Conformal Prediction

    Oct 5, 2026Ruihan A. Li, Ziyao Guo, Yingying LiDistribution Shift RobustnessRobot Navigation

    Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

  5. PPO-HRAP: Proximal Policy Optimization with a Hybrid Regime-Aware Policy for Risk-Controlled Trading

    Oct 1, 2026Duong Hien Chi Kien, Thanh Trung HuynhReinforcement LearningRisk-Sensitive RL

    College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity Ha Noi, Viet Nam

  6. Exploring More, Reasoning Better: Stepwise Risk-Sensitive GRPO for Diffusion Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Yue YU, Bowen Zuo, David Crandall +2RL for Language Model ReasoningGroup Relative Policy Optimization

    Indiana University · University of California, Riverside

  7. Robust Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning from Corrupted Human Feedback

    Sep 30, 2026Xinyi Ni, Lifeng LaiRisk-Sensitive RLRobust RL

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA

  8. Character Training for Risk-Averse Agents

    Sep 29, 2026Arav Dhoot, Punya Syon Pandey, Jamie Johnson +3Risk-Sensitive RLAI Agent Safety

    UK AI Security Institute · Resolution

  9. RSD-Poker: Structure-Adaptive and Shift-Robust Risk-Utility Certification for Residual Policies in Imperfect-Information Games

    Sep 27, 2026Miaobo Hu, Shuhao Hu, Xiaobo Guo +5Distribution Shift RobustnessImperfect-Information Games

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  10. Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning with Risk Sensitivity and Critic Consistency Regularization

    Sep 23, 2026Jiaxi Wu, Tiantian Zhang, Yuxing Wang +2Reinforcement LearningRisk-Sensitive RL

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University Shenzhen, China

  11. Certifying Lower Bounds for Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning under Adversarial State Perturbations

    Sep 11, 2026Tong Li, Saunak Kumar Panda, Yisha XiangRisk-Sensitive RLAdversarial Perturbations

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Houston, 4302 University Dr, Houston, 77004, TX, USA. · Department of Decision and Information Science, University of Houston, 4302 University Dr, Houston, 77004, TX, USA.

  12. A Risk-Sensitive and Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making and Control Framework for Safe and Robust Autonomous Driving

    Sep 9, 2026Zhuoren Li, Ran Yu, Weiqi Zhang +4Control Barrier FunctionsAutonomous Driving

    College of Automotive and Energy Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China · Department of Data and Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  13. Risk-Conditioned Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

    Sep 8, 2026Zixuan Liu, Fangzheng Wu, Brian Summa +1Risk-Sensitive RLLLM Safety

    Department of Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA

  14. Mini-Batch Risk-Averse Deep Q-Learning: A Robot Navigation Case Study

    Sep 7, 2026Aayush Patel, Andrzej RuszczyńskiDeep Q-LearningRobot Navigation

    Department of Management Science and Information Systems, Rutgers University

  15. Risk and Anomaly Identification for Distribution Network Optimal Operation Based on Reinforcement Learning and Uncertainty Quantification

    Sep 3, 2026Ziqi ZhangRisk-Sensitive RLOOD Detection

    College of Automation Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211100, China

  16. Tail-Likelihood Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 2, 2026Shrinivas Ramasubramanian, Daman Arora, Fahim Tajwar +11Risk-Sensitive RLRL for Generative Models

    Carnegie Mellon University · Together AI · University of California, Berkeley +2

  17. Adaptive Finite-Budget Training for CVaR Risk-Aware Q-Learning

    Aug 5, 2026Yifan Wu, Junjie Lei, Wenjie HuangReinforcement LearningQ-Learning

    Department of Data and Systems Engineering The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

  18. Taming the Implicit: Dual-Channel Risk-Aware Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Continual Multimodal Post-Training

    Aug 4, 2026Yibei Liu, Jiajun Chen, Qianle Zhang +4Multimodal Large Language ModelsRisk-Sensitive RL

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Zhejiang University · South China University of Technology +1

  19. Finite-Time Analysis of Discounted Exponential-Utility Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 3, 2026Ankur Naskar, Vivek T A, Aditya Kumar +2Reinforcement LearningRisk-Sensitive RL

    Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India · Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

  20. Efficient Heteroscedastic Bayesian Optimization for Risk-Aware AutoRL

    Jul 29, 2026Mingxuan Che, Tsung-Yuan Tseng, Theresa Eimer +2Bayesian OptimizationRisk-Sensitive RL

    Leibniz University Hannover · CARIAD SE · University of Wuppertal +2

  21. Anticipatory Risk-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Safe Flight Through Dynamic Clutter

    Jul 26, 2026Yuchao Mei, Guohao Zhang, Luxia Ai +2Collision AvoidanceRisk-Sensitive RL

    National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Multi-spectral Information Processing, School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

  22. Online Policy Evaluation for MDPs with Dynamic UBSR Measures

    Jul 25, 2026Weikai Wang, Erick DelagePolicy EvaluationRisk-Sensitive RL

    GERAD & Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montr´eal, Canada

  23. Long-Term Sequential Decision Making under Risk

    Jul 22, 2026Irmaan, Mirzanejad, Nadjet Bourdache +1Markov Decision ProcessesDynamic Programming

    Mohammad · Université de Caen Normandie, ENSICAEN, CNRS, Normandie Univ, GREYC UMR 6072, France

  24. Learning from World Feedback: Why Model Uncertainty Fails as a Risk Signal in Model-Based RL

    Jul 18, 2026Zhaohui WangRisk-Sensitive RLModel Predictive Control

    Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

  25. A Noise-Robust Elicit-to-Optimize Framework for Distortion Riskmetrics via Inverse Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 15, 2026Yang Liu, Yuhao Liu, Yunran WeiReinforcement LearningRisk-Sensitive RL

    School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China. · School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Canada.

  26. SteinGate: Tail-Sensitive Safe Reinforcement Learning via Stein Discrepancy

    Jul 14, 2026Yassine Chemingui, Chenhua Fan, Honghao Wei +1Constrained RLRisk-Sensitive RL

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA

  27. Auditing the Risk Claims of Distributional Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 13, 2026Hari PrasadDistributional RLAlgorithmic Auditing

  28. Risk-Aware General-Utility Markov Decision Processes

    Jul 10, 2026Pedro P. Santos, Fábio Vital, Alberto Sardinha +1Markov Decision ProcessesMarkov Models

    INESC-ID · Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon · Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

  29. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Reliability Based Bi-Objective Portfolio Optimization

    Jul 7, 2026Sounaq Das, Tanmay Sen, Raghu Nandan Sengupta +1Multi-Objective Reinforcement LearningRisk-Sensitive RL

    Indian Institute of Management Amritsar · Amritsar, India · SQC & OR Unit +7

  30. RS-Diffuser: Risk-Sensitive Diffusion Planning with Distributional Value Guidance

    Jun 26, 2026Shiqiang GongDistributional RLDiffusion-Based Planning

    Northwestern Polytechnical University