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Safe Exploration in Continuous Action Spaces

Safe Exploration for Robots and Datacenters — Learn Without Breaking Things

Imagine letting an AI learn on a real robot or cooling unit, but never letting it cause harm.
We add a tiny safety layer that checks and gently fixes every action right before it runs.
The fix is fast and based on a simple learned model from old logs, even when those logs were messy or came from unknown controllers.
Because the model is smooth, safety step has a neat formula, so actions are corrected on the spot.
This means the agent can explore and get better but, crucially, it will keeps respecting limits.
We tried it in physics-like simulators and it kept zero violations while other approaches broke rules.
No complex rules to hand-code, no guessing about how past data was made.
The idea works on real machines and is ready to help robots, datacenters and other systems try new things safely.
Its about letting machines learn, without letting them break stuff.
Simple, practical and surprisingly robust.

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