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Compress the Policy, Verify the Loss: dtControl 2+ε Turns Approximation into an Auditable Budget

TL;DR for operators If a large automated policy contains thousands of state-specific decisions, must every one be preserved exactly before the policy can be reviewed or deployed safely? dtControl 2+$\varepsilon$ starts from a different premise: some decisions can change without materially changing the objective the controller was built to achieve. It uses an explicit objective-level tolerance to determine how much performance loss may be accepted, removes decision detail that does not need to be preserved, and model-checks the resulting controller before accepting it.1 ...

August 24, 2026 · 7 min · Zelina
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When Goals Collide: Synthesizing the Best Possible Outcome

A robot does not always get the luxury of a clean task list. Reach the loading bay. Avoid blocked corridors. Preserve battery. Pick up two packages. Respect a safety boundary. Finish before the door closes. Then the environment, as environments enjoy doing, changes the rules halfway through. A corridor shuts. A resource disappears. One goal now interferes with another. ...

January 16, 2026 · 16 min · Zelina