arXiv:2607.18606cs.RO2026-07

揭示采样法可达集分析的几何与动态限制,证明其复杂度本质指数级增长。

On the Limits of Sampling-Based Reachability: Geometry, Dynamics, and Sample Complexity

论文配图:On the Limits of Sampling-Based Reachability: Geometry, Dynamics, and Sample Complexity
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  • 将采样可达集估计建模为几何支撑估计问题,引入互补集正可达性与动力学Lipschitz连续性条件。
  • 给出样本复杂度上界:需约 (e^{3LT}/r)^n 个样本,指数依赖于状态维数和时间跨度。
  • 证明该指数依赖是固有极限,任何方法都无法避免,适用于安全控制与神经网络验证场景。

可达性分析在安全关键控制、机器人与神经网络验证中至关重要,但经典计算方法(如哈密顿-雅可比可达性)随状态维度增长而性能急剧下降。采样方法作为替代方案,常提供有限样本保证,但其精度如何受初始集几何、系统动力学及采样律影响尚不明确。本文将采样可达集恢复问题建模为由初始集、动力学与采样律定义的一类几何支撑估计问题。首先,识别出两个正则性条件:初始集补集的正可达性与动力学的Lipschitz连续性,二者共同使恢复问题适定——概率质量覆盖保证可升级为豪斯多夫距离精度 $r$。其次,给出样本复杂度上界:恢复仅需 $ ilde{ig}(e^{3LT}/r)^nig)$ 个样本,指数依赖于状态维数 $n$ 与时间跨度 $T$。第三,通过极小极大下界 $Ωig((e^{LT}/r)^nig)$ 证明该指数依赖不可消除,表明其为内在性质而非方法缺陷。非线性系统的实验验证了对抗性采样仅改善常数项,不改变整体标度。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reachability analysis is central to safety-critical control, robotics, and neural network verification, but classical computational methods, such as Hamilton--Jacobi reachability and set propagation, scale poorly with state dimension. Sampling-based methods have emerged as a promising alternative, often providing finite-sample guarantees that bound the probability-mass left uncovered. However, an explicit account of how the geometry of the initial set, the dynamics, and the sampling law affect the accuracy of the estimator is not fully available in the literature. We study this by casting sampling-based reachable-set recovery as geometric support estimation over a family of problems specified by an initial set, its dynamics, and a sampling law. First, we identify two regularity properties, positive reach of the initial set's complement and Lipschitz continuity of the dynamics, that together make recovery well-posed: a probability-mass coverage guarantee can be upgraded to accuracy $r$ in Hausdorff distance. Second, we bound the resulting sample complexity: recovery is achievable with $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}\big((e^{3LT}/r)^n\big)$ samples, exponential in both the state dimension and the time horizon. Third, we show that neither can be removed: an minimax lower bound of $Ω\big((e^{LT}/r)^n\big)$ holds for every estimator, so the exponential dependence on dimension and the degradation over the horizon are both intrinsic, not artifacts of a particular method. Experiments on nonlinear systems confirm that adversarial sampling improves constants but not the scaling.

可达性分析采样方法复杂度下界安全控制

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