Probabilistic Performance Guarantees for Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning

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Authors: Yannik Schnitzer, Mathias Jackermeier, Alessandro Abate, David Parker
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Abstract

Multi-task reinforcement learning trains generalist policies that can execute multiple tasks. While recent years have seen significant progress, existing approaches rarely provide formal performance guarantees, which are indispensable when deploying policies in safety-critical settings. We present an approach for computing high-confidence guarantees on the performance of a multi-task policy on tasks not seen during training. Concretely, we introduce a new generalisation bound that composes (i) per-task lower confidence bounds from finitely many rollouts with (ii) task-level generalisation from finitely many sampled tasks, yielding a high-confidence guarantee for new tasks drawn from the same arbitrary and unknown distribution. Across state-of-the-art multi-task RL methods, we show that the guarantees are theoretically sound and informative at realistic sample sizes.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Reinforcement Learning in Robotics Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning Machine Learning and Algorithms

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
2 February 2026
Document type
Preprint