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failure mode characterization

Last edited: August 8, 2025

take a bunch of failure trajectories, and cluster them; can possibly do it with STL systems

fairness

Last edited: August 8, 2025

fairness through unawareness

procedural fairness, or fairness through unawareness is a fairness system

If you have no idea about the demographics of protected groups, you will make better decisions.

  1. exclude sensitive features from datasets
  2. exclude proxies of protected groups

Problem: deeply correlated information (such as stuff that people like) is hard to get rid of—individual features does nothing with respect to predicting gender, but taken in groups it can recover protected group information.

fairness through awareness

we only care about the outcome

falsification

Last edited: August 8, 2025

falsification is the process of systematically finding failures of a particular system to inform future design decisions.

Goals:

  • enhance system sensors
  • change the agent’s policy
  • revise the system requirements
  • adapt the training of human operators
  • recognize a system as having limitations
  • …or abandon the project

Here are some methods

direct falsification

  • rollout to a ceratin depth
  • check if any trajectory is a failure and collect
  • return them

drawback: this doesn’t work super well for rare events

faraday's law

Last edited: August 8, 2025

We have that:

The change in volts in a relationship to the magnetic flux.

\begin{equation} \epsilon = \oint \vec{E} \cdot \dd{\vec{l}} = - \dv{\Phi_{b}}{t} \end{equation}

where, \(\Phi_{b}\) is the magnetic flux, namely how much magnetic field is through a surface:

\begin{equation} \Phi_{b} = \int \vec{B} \cdot \dd{\vec{A}} \end{equation}

usually, this is just \(BA\).

Note! This tells us that the EMF (electric field per length) is just negative the change of magnetic flux.

Fast Informed Bound

Last edited: August 8, 2025

One alpha vector per action:

\begin{equation} \alpha^{(k+1)}_{a}(s) = R(s,a) + \gamma \sum_{o}^{} \max_{a’} \sum_{s’}^{} O(o|a,s’)T(s’|s,a) \alpha_{a’}^{k}(s’) \end{equation}

time complexity: \(O(|S|^{2}|A|^{2}|O|)\)