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| author | Hoss, Jonathan Klarmann, Noah |
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| contents | Event-driven scheduling policies are increasingly deployed in industrial environments, where decisions are made under asynchronous and partially observed system states. As a result, decision states are not temporally consistent, action admissibility is not explicitly defined, and the origin of execution errors remains ambiguous. These issues limit both reliability and interpretability.
To address this gap, a policy-neutral execution and measurement layer is proposed to mediate between scheduling policies and the industrial execution environment. The layer constructs decision-valid snapshots from asynchronous event streams, defines a standardized execution contract with explicit action admissibility, and records outcomes as divergences between policy intent, transactional outcomes, physical execution, and human intervention. This enables a separation between decision semantics and execution behavior and makes deployment mismatch observable and structurally attributable.
The proposed framework is evaluated using a discrete-event simulation. The results show analytical benefits across all observation lag regimes, as undifferentiated execution failures are transformed into structured, typed outcomes with full attribution coverage. Operational benefits are strongest under low observation lag, where avoidable execution errors can be prevented before commitment. Overall, the layer turns execution uncertainty into supervisory data for evaluation and policy refinement. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Reinforcement Learning-Based Industrial Dispatching through Execution Semantics Hoss, Jonathan Klarmann, Noah Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Event-driven scheduling policies are increasingly deployed in industrial environments, where decisions are made under asynchronous and partially observed system states. As a result, decision states are not temporally consistent, action admissibility is not explicitly defined, and the origin of execution errors remains ambiguous. These issues limit both reliability and interpretability. To address this gap, a policy-neutral execution and measurement layer is proposed to mediate between scheduling policies and the industrial execution environment. The layer constructs decision-valid snapshots from asynchronous event streams, defines a standardized execution contract with explicit action admissibility, and records outcomes as divergences between policy intent, transactional outcomes, physical execution, and human intervention. This enables a separation between decision semantics and execution behavior and makes deployment mismatch observable and structurally attributable. The proposed framework is evaluated using a discrete-event simulation. The results show analytical benefits across all observation lag regimes, as undifferentiated execution failures are transformed into structured, typed outcomes with full attribution coverage. Operational benefits are strongest under low observation lag, where avoidable execution errors can be prevented before commitment. Overall, the layer turns execution uncertainty into supervisory data for evaluation and policy refinement. |
| title | Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Reinforcement Learning-Based Industrial Dispatching through Execution Semantics |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29078 |