AnySafe: Adapting Latent Safety Filters at Runtime via Safety Constraint Parameterization in the Latent Space

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Auteurs principaux: Agrawal, Sankalp, Seo, Junwon, Nakamura, Kensuke, Tian, Ran, Bajcsy, Andrea
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author Agrawal, Sankalp
Seo, Junwon
Nakamura, Kensuke
Tian, Ran
Bajcsy, Andrea
author_facet Agrawal, Sankalp
Seo, Junwon
Nakamura, Kensuke
Tian, Ran
Bajcsy, Andrea
contents Recent works have shown that foundational safe control methods, such as Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis, can be applied in the latent space of world models. While this enables the synthesis of latent safety filters for hard-to-model vision-based tasks, they assume that the safety constraint is known a priori and remains fixed during deployment, limiting the safety filter's adaptability across scenarios. To address this, we propose constraint-parameterized latent safety filters that can adapt to user-specified safety constraints at runtime. Our key idea is to define safety constraints by conditioning on an encoding of an image that represents a constraint, using a latent-space similarity measure. The notion of similarity to failure is aligned in a principled way through conformal calibration, which controls how closely the system may approach the constraint representation. The parameterized safety filter is trained entirely within the world model's imagination, treating any image seen by the model as a potential test-time constraint, thereby enabling runtime adaptation to arbitrary safety constraints. In simulation and hardware experiments on vision-based control tasks with a Franka manipulator, we show that our method adapts at runtime by conditioning on the encoding of user-specified constraint images, without sacrificing performance. Video results can be found on https://any-safe.github.io
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spellingShingle AnySafe: Adapting Latent Safety Filters at Runtime via Safety Constraint Parameterization in the Latent Space
Agrawal, Sankalp
Seo, Junwon
Nakamura, Kensuke
Tian, Ran
Bajcsy, Andrea
Robotics
Machine Learning
Recent works have shown that foundational safe control methods, such as Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability analysis, can be applied in the latent space of world models. While this enables the synthesis of latent safety filters for hard-to-model vision-based tasks, they assume that the safety constraint is known a priori and remains fixed during deployment, limiting the safety filter's adaptability across scenarios. To address this, we propose constraint-parameterized latent safety filters that can adapt to user-specified safety constraints at runtime. Our key idea is to define safety constraints by conditioning on an encoding of an image that represents a constraint, using a latent-space similarity measure. The notion of similarity to failure is aligned in a principled way through conformal calibration, which controls how closely the system may approach the constraint representation. The parameterized safety filter is trained entirely within the world model's imagination, treating any image seen by the model as a potential test-time constraint, thereby enabling runtime adaptation to arbitrary safety constraints. In simulation and hardware experiments on vision-based control tasks with a Franka manipulator, we show that our method adapts at runtime by conditioning on the encoding of user-specified constraint images, without sacrificing performance. Video results can be found on https://any-safe.github.io
title AnySafe: Adapting Latent Safety Filters at Runtime via Safety Constraint Parameterization in the Latent Space
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19555