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Hierarchical supervisor-agent

Transient communication loss evaluation

Fault: Communication loss
Duration: Transient
Recovery mechanism: Hierarchical supervisor-agent

Experiment definition

The experiment evaluates Hierarchical supervisor-agent under a transient communication loss injection. Fault onset is randomized between environment steps 40 and 60.

Expected evaluation record

MetricRecorded value
Degradation-area3.10 ± 2.22 (corrected; mean ± 95% CI, n=48)
Safety-violation excess14.4 ± 10.3 (weighted, control-subtracted; mean ± 95% CI, n=48)
Fraction of time healthy0.706 ± 0.021 (mean ± 95% CI, n=48)
Relapse count0.50 ± 0.15 (mean ± 95% CI, n=48)
False-recovery rate0.892 ± 0.005 (mean ± 95% CI, n=48)
Intervention recall0.742 ± 0.039 (mean ± 95% CI, n=48)

Values are means with 95% confidence intervals across every target × duration-fixed combination shown on this page (see graphs below), 8 evaluation seeds each, for each of 3 training seeds. See the Results page for the cross-mechanism comparison.

Experimental trajectory graphs

One representative run (evaluation seed 0 of 8, training seed 1 of 3) per target × mode combination from the full sweep. See the Results page for the multi-seed aggregate comparison across mechanisms. The graphs for every seed are archived at doi:10.5281/zenodo.23304785 (files available from 10 November 2026).

Pressing Agent Target (blackout mode)

Communication loss transient fault, Hierarchical supervisor-agent, Pressing Agent Target (blackout mode)
Hierarchical supervisor-agent - Pressing Agent Target (blackout mode) - evaluation trajectory under transient communication loss (fault onset randomized between steps 40-60), seed 0 of the 8-seed sweep, training seed 1 of 3.

Pressing Agent Target (stale mode)

Communication loss transient fault, Hierarchical supervisor-agent, Pressing Agent Target (stale mode)
Hierarchical supervisor-agent - Pressing Agent Target (stale mode) - evaluation trajectory under transient communication loss (fault onset randomized between steps 40-60), seed 0 of the 8-seed sweep, training seed 1 of 3.

Notes

This page is intentionally separated from the paper-facing results so that full-resolution plots, additional seeds, and diagnostic figures can be documented without overloading the publication.