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HFEPX · Eval paper review

Selecting Decision-Relevant Concepts in Reinforcement Learning

Naveen Raman, Stephanie Milani, Fei Fang

Published

Apr 6, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

40/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

45% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Domain Experts

Signals refreshed

Apr 6, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

Background context only.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Weak or implicit
Validate from full paper
Usefulness for eval research
40/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Training interpretable concept-based policies requires practitioners to manually select which human-understandable concepts an agent should reason with when making sequential decisions. This selection demands domain expertise, is time-consuming and costly, scales poorly with the number of candidates, and provides no performance guarantees. To overcome this limitation, we propose the first algorithms for principled automatic concept selection in sequential decision-making. Our key insight is that concept selection can be viewed through the lens of state abstraction: intuitively, a concept is decision-relevant if removing it would cause the agent to confuse states that require different actions. As a result, agents should rely on decision-relevant concepts; states with the same concept representation should share the same optimal action, which preserves the optimal decision structure of the original state space. This perspective leads to the Decision-Relevant Selection (DRS) algorithm, which selects a subset of concepts from a candidate set, along with performance bounds relating the selected concepts to the performance of the resulting policy. Empirically, DRS automatically recovers manually curated concept sets while matching or exceeding their performance, and improves the effectiveness of test-time concept interventions across reinforcement learning benchmarks and real-world healthcare environments.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

partial

Expert Verification

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"Training interpretable concept-based policies requires practitioners to manually select which human-understandable concepts an agent should reason with when making sequential decisions."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"Training interpretable concept-based policies requires practitioners to manually select which human-understandable concepts an agent should reason with when making sequential decisions."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Training interpretable concept-based policies requires practitioners to manually select which human-understandable concepts an agent should reason with when making sequential decisions."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Training interpretable concept-based policies requires practitioners to manually select which human-understandable concepts an agent should reason with when making sequential decisions."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"Training interpretable concept-based policies requires practitioners to manually select which human-understandable concepts an agent should reason with when making sequential decisions."

Rater Population

partial

Domain Experts

Helpful for staffing comparability.

"This selection demands domain expertise, is time-consuming and costly, scales poorly with the number of candidates, and provides no performance guarantees."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Expert Verification
Rater population
Domain Experts
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Training interpretable concept-based policies requires practitioners to manually select which human-understandable concepts an agent should reason with when making sequential decisions.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Training interpretable concept-based policies requires practitioners to manually select which human-understandable concepts an agent should reason with when making sequential decisions.
  • This selection demands domain expertise, is time-consuming and costly, scales poorly with the number of candidates, and provides no performance guarantees.
  • To overcome this limitation, we propose the first algorithms for principled automatic concept selection in sequential decision-making.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • Training interpretable concept-based policies requires practitioners to manually select which human-understandable concepts an agent should reason with when making sequential decisions.
  • To overcome this limitation, we propose the first algorithms for principled automatic concept selection in sequential decision-making.
  • Our key insight is that concept selection can be viewed through the lens of state abstraction: intuitively, a concept is decision-relevant if removing it would cause the agent to confuse states that require different actions.

Why it matters for eval

  • Training interpretable concept-based policies requires practitioners to manually select which human-understandable concepts an agent should reason with when making sequential decisions.
  • Our key insight is that concept selection can be viewed through the lens of state abstraction: intuitively, a concept is decision-relevant if removing it would cause the agent to confuse states that require different actions.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Expert Verification

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.