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Main Authors: Li, Jiachen, Li, Shihao, Chen, Dongmei
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00380
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author Li, Jiachen
Li, Shihao
Chen, Dongmei
author_facet Li, Jiachen
Li, Shihao
Chen, Dongmei
contents Learning-based adaptation of Control Barrier Function (CBF) parameters offers a promising path toward safe autonomous navigation that balances conservatism with performance. Yet the accuracy of the underlying safety predictor is ultimately constrained by training data quality, and no prior work has formally characterized how prediction errors propagate through the adaptive pipeline to degrade closed-loop safety guarantees. We introduce Data-Attributed Adaptive CBF (DA-CBF), a framework that integrates TracIn-based data attribution into adaptive CBF learning. Our theoretical contributions are fourfold: (i) corrected two-sided bounds relating the safety-loss surrogate to the CBF constraint margin; (ii) a safety margin preservation theorem showing that prediction error induces quantifiable margin degradation and, via a smooth parameter selector, yields a genuine closed-loop forward invariance guarantee not conditioned on a fixed trajectory; (iii) a CBF-QP constraint perturbation bound that links prediction accuracy directly to recursive feasibility; and (iv) a principled leave-one-out justification for influence-based data curation under explicit smoothness assumptions. On a DynamicUnicycle2D benchmark, DA-CBF reduces prediction RMSE by 35.6\%, expands the certified safe operating set by 39\%, and achieves collision-free navigation in a 16-obstacle environment where the uncurated baseline incurs 3 collisions.
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spellingShingle Data-Attributed Adaptive Control Barrier Functions: Safety-Certified Training Data Curation via Influence Analysis
Li, Jiachen
Li, Shihao
Chen, Dongmei
Systems and Control
Learning-based adaptation of Control Barrier Function (CBF) parameters offers a promising path toward safe autonomous navigation that balances conservatism with performance. Yet the accuracy of the underlying safety predictor is ultimately constrained by training data quality, and no prior work has formally characterized how prediction errors propagate through the adaptive pipeline to degrade closed-loop safety guarantees. We introduce Data-Attributed Adaptive CBF (DA-CBF), a framework that integrates TracIn-based data attribution into adaptive CBF learning. Our theoretical contributions are fourfold: (i) corrected two-sided bounds relating the safety-loss surrogate to the CBF constraint margin; (ii) a safety margin preservation theorem showing that prediction error induces quantifiable margin degradation and, via a smooth parameter selector, yields a genuine closed-loop forward invariance guarantee not conditioned on a fixed trajectory; (iii) a CBF-QP constraint perturbation bound that links prediction accuracy directly to recursive feasibility; and (iv) a principled leave-one-out justification for influence-based data curation under explicit smoothness assumptions. On a DynamicUnicycle2D benchmark, DA-CBF reduces prediction RMSE by 35.6\%, expands the certified safe operating set by 39\%, and achieves collision-free navigation in a 16-obstacle environment where the uncurated baseline incurs 3 collisions.
title Data-Attributed Adaptive Control Barrier Functions: Safety-Certified Training Data Curation via Influence Analysis
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00380