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Boyang Li

Publications 5

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Empty Commitments: When Agents Promise What They Cannot Deliver

Jiaqi Tang, Bingyu Shen, Lan Wei et al. · 2026

A chatbot that says "I will remind you tomorrow" will not run again until the user writes. We call such a promise an empty commitment: a promise of action after the current turn that nothing in the agent's tools or runtime can carry out. Unlike a broken promise, its emptiness is decided by the agent's configuration at …

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Safe Score Matching: Diffusion Policies with Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability for Online Safe Reinforcement Learning

Online safe reinforcement learning (RL) seeks policies that maximize reward while satisfying safety constraints. A popular line of research in safe RL relaxes safety to a soft expected-cost constraint and solves the resulting Constrained Markov Decision Process via primal-dual Lagrangian updates that only enforce safet …

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