% Key papers for Pessimism and uncertainty in offline RL (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{aaai2022_constraints_1868, title = {{Constraints Penalized Q-learning for Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/08753-constraints-penalized-q-learning-for-safe-offline-reinforcement-learning/}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_combo_62742, title = {{COMBO: Conservative Offline Model-Based Policy Optimization}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/30476}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_uncertainty_62537, title = {{Uncertainty-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning with Diversified Q-Ensemble}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/25921}, } @inproceedings{iclr2021_what_29974, title = {{What are the Statistical Limits of Offline RL with Linear Function Approximation?}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2021/poster/2830}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_mildly_65111, title = {{Mildly Conservative Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/54993}, } @inproceedings{iclr2022_pessimistic_31391, title = {{Pessimistic Bootstrapping for Uncertainty-Driven Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/poster/6030}, } @inproceedings{icml2021_is_39482, title = {{Is Pessimism Provably Efficient for Offline RL?}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2021/poster/10409}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_conservative_62513, title = {{Conservative Offline Distributional Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/27353}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_robust_64190, title = {{Robust Reinforcement Learning using Offline Data}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/53040}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_why_66487, title = {{Why So Pessimistic? Estimating Uncertainties for Offline RL through Ensembles, and Why Their Independence Matters}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/53737}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_offline_6815, title = {{Offline Model-Based Optimization via Policy-Guided Gradient Search}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29001}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_model_65977, title = {{Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning with Pessimism-Modulated Dynamics Belief}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/54842}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_sumo_10650, title = {{SUMO: Search-Based Uncertainty Estimation for Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/34206}, } @inproceedings{iclr2023_when_33098, title = {{When Data Geometry Meets Deep Function: Generalizing Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/poster/11288}, } @inproceedings{icml2022_offline_40913, title = {{Offline RL Policies Should Be Trained to be Adaptive}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2022/poster/18003}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_optimistic_6871, title = {{Optimistic Model Rollouts for Pessimistic Offline Policy Optimization}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29607}, } @inproceedings{iclr2023_confidence_32775, title = {{Confidence-Conditioned Value Functions for Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/poster/10887}, } @inproceedings{neurips2022_uncertainty_66027, title = {{Uncertainty Estimation Using Riemannian Model Dynamics for Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/54511}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_q_71848, title = {{Q-Distribution guided Q-learning for offline reinforcement learning: Uncertainty penalized Q-value via consistency model}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95452}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_uncertainty_74098, title = {{Uncertainty-based Offline Variational Bayesian Reinforcement Learning for Robustness under Diverse Data Corruptions}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93435}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_relaxed_7105, title = {{Relaxed Stationary Distribution Correction Estimation for Improved Offline Policy Optimization}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29218}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_neural_6765, title = {{Neural Network Approximation for Pessimistic Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29517}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_improving_34238, title = {{Improving Offline RL by Blending Heuristics}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18837}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_exclusively_70282, title = {{Exclusively Penalized Q-learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96808}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_offline_75119, title = {{Offline Guarded Safe Reinforcement Learning for Medical Treatment Optimization Strategies}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=4P6Mployhf}, } @inproceedings{iclr2025_model_81943, title = {{Model-based Offline Reinforcement Learning with Lower Expectile Q-Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/29841}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_dynamic_8854, title = {{Dynamic Uncertainty Estimation for Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/35410}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_selective_10713, title = {{Selective Uncertainty Propagation in Offline RL}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/33977}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2024_poce_24415, title = {{POCE: Primal Policy Optimization with Conservative Estimation for Multi-constraint Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2024/poster/29821}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_pessimistic_33626, title = {{Pessimistic Nonlinear Least-Squares Value Iteration for Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/19449}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_pessimism_44035, title = {{Pessimism Meets Risk: Risk-Sensitive Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34417}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_stable_47342, title = {{Stable Offline Value Function Learning with Bisimulation-based Representations}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45250}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_vipo_52555, title = {{VIPO: Value Function Inconsistency Penalized Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=XAZdspeB5d}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_regularized_55052, title = {{Regularized Offline Policy Optimization with Posterior Hybrid Bayesian Belief}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=v8BF1g3u8r}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_deterministic_71924, title = {{Deterministic Uncertainty Propagation for Improved Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95381}, }