潜在安全フィルタ:損失のあるエンコーダが転移可能な証明書を許容する条件
Latent Safety Filters: When a Lossy Encoder Admits a Transferable Certificate
損失のあるエンコーダを用いた潜在安全フィルタが物理系に安全証明を転移できる条件を、捨てられた安全関連ダイナミクスの検出可能性で特徴づけた研究。
著者: Johannes Mootz, Zahra Nili Ahmadabadi, Reza Akhavian
分類: eess.SY, cs.LG, cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Latent safety filters certify safety on a learned low-dimensional representation of the state, enabling constraints that resist analytic description. Because the encoder is lossy, a filter can report safe while the physical state is unsafe, with no detectable model error. Existing transfer conditions leave the effect of discarded safety information implicit. We ask when a lossy encoder admits a safety certificate that transfers to the physical system, and show the answer is governed by the detectability of the discarded safety-relevant dynamics. We construct a system whose latent model is exact and whose latent signals always report safe, while the physical state becomes arbitrarily unsafe. For this system no certificate exists and no monitor downstream of the encoder can detect the failure. When the discarded dynamics contract, a latent barrier certifies true safety up to two explicit margins, one for the latent-model error and one for the variation of safety across states the encoder cannot distinguish. In the linear case and under boundedness and non-degeneracy conditions, every calibrated barrier transfers with a finite margin when the safety-relevant subspace is detectable, and none does otherwise. On learned cartpole encoders, the model error does not indicate for which representations the estimated bound is non-vacuous, while the second margin does.