Robust Remote Reinforcement Learning over Unreliable Communication Channels using Homomorphic State Encoding

Andrea Zanella; Federico Chiariotti; Federico Mason; Pietro Talli

arxiv: 2508.07722 · v2 · submitted 2025-08-11 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.IT· cs.MA· math.IT

Robust Remote Reinforcement Learning over Unreliable Communication Channels using Homomorphic State Encoding

Pietro Talli , Federico Mason , Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Zanella This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.LG cs.ITcs.MAmath.IT

keywords reinforcement learningremote RLhomomorphic state encodingunreliable channelsdistributed trainingsample efficiencypacket loss adaptation

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Homomorphic state encoding allows reinforcement learning agents to train effectively from remote sensors over lossy and delayed channels without sharing gradients.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes a new architecture called HR3L that uses homomorphic state encoding to support reinforcement learning when state information arrives over unreliable communication links. Existing solutions often demand high computation or communication costs and are tuned for particular channel problems. HR3L avoids gradient exchanges and maintains performance across packet losses, delays, and bandwidth limits while improving sample efficiency. This matters for deploying RL in settings like wireless sensor networks or remote control systems where perfect communication cannot be assumed. If the approach holds, it reduces the barriers to using RL in real-world distributed environments with intermittent feedback.

Core claim

The authors claim that by encoding states homomorphically before transmission, the remote RL agent can still learn effective policies from partial and intermittent state updates, achieving better sample efficiency than prior methods and adapting to various channel impairments without task-specific changes or additional mechanisms.

What carries the argument

Homomorphic state encoding, a transformation of state information that allows learning to proceed despite transmission losses and delays by preserving essential features for policy updates.

If this is right

Distributed RL training becomes feasible over standard unreliable networks with lower communication overhead.
Agents achieve faster convergence through higher sample efficiency compared to existing remote RL approaches.
Performance remains stable under packet loss, transmission delays, and limited bandwidth without needing scenario-specific modifications.
The method eliminates the requirement to transmit gradient information between remote components.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The lack of task-specific tuning implies broader applicability across diverse RL tasks and environments.
Reduced overhead suggests potential for scaling to larger state spaces or more frequent updates in constrained settings.
Outperformance in sample efficiency points to efficiency gains when deploying RL in resource-limited remote systems.

Load-bearing premise

Homomorphic state encoding preserves sufficient information to support effective policy learning under intermittent and lossy channel conditions without any task-specific tuning or extra mechanisms.

What would settle it

A direct comparison in which HR3L shows no improvement in sample efficiency or experiences sharp performance drops under high packet loss rates compared to the state-of-the-art methods it claims to surpass.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2508.07722 by Andrea Zanella, Federico Chiariotti, Federico Mason, Pietro Talli.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: The figure provides an overview of the different tasks, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Patterns of the Gilbert-Elliott channel models for two different [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Mean relative performance loss over instantaneous communication [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Learning curves for visual cheetah-run environment. 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 0.6 0.8 1 Data Rate [Mb/s] Normalized Reward JPEG HR3L CompressAI [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Performance of different models as a function of the average required [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Average bitrate in each environment for the different compression methods while considering a required normalized reward of 0.9. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_9.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Average delay introduced by the compression methods. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Traditional Reinforcement Learning (RL) frameworks generally assume that the agent perceives the state of the underlying Markov process instantaneously and then takes actions accordingly. If the agent cannot directly observe the process, but rather receives state updates from a remote sensor over a lossy and/or delayed channel, it may be forced to operate with partial and intermittent information. In recent years, numerous learning architectures have been proposed to manage RL with imperfect or remote feedback; however, they offer solutions tailored to specific use cases, often with a substantial computational and communication burden. To address these limitations, we propose a novel learning architecture, named Homomorphic Robust Remote Reinforcement Learning (HR3L), that enables the distributed training of RL agents over unreliable communication channels without the need to exchange gradient information. Our experimental results demonstrate that HR3L significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of sample efficiency, leading to faster training and reduced communication overhead. In addition, we show that HR3L can adapt to different scenarios, including packet loss, delayed transmissions, and bandwidth limitations, without experiencing significant performance degradation.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

HR3L combines homomorphic state encoding with remote RL to skip gradient exchange over lossy channels, claiming better efficiency and robustness, though experiments lack detail.

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The main thing here is a concrete architecture called HR3L that encodes states homomorphically so an RL agent can train remotely when the channel drops packets, adds delay, or limits bandwidth, all without exchanging gradients. That setup directly targets a practical headache in distributed or IoT-style RL where perfect communication cannot be assumed. Prior approaches often built custom fixes for each channel issue and still carried heavy compute or comms costs; this one tries to sidestep that by moving the robustness into the state representation itself. The abstract reports faster training and lower overhead than current methods, plus stable behavior across the tested channel conditions without extra tuning per scenario. That last part, if it holds, would be useful for anyone who wants one method to cover several deployment realities. The experiments are only summarized at a high level, with no numbers on runs, variance, or exact baselines, so the strength of the outperformance claim is hard to judge from what is shown. A bigger open question is whether the encoding actually keeps the policy-relevant information intact when updates arrive only intermittently. No information-theoretic bound or ablation isolating the encoding's contribution appears in the summary, which leaves room for the possibility that success depends on unstated design choices rather than the homomorphic step alone. If the encoding erases value-critical features in richer state spaces, the no-gradient training could still look good for other reasons. This paper is aimed at applied researchers working on remote or resource-constrained RL rather than core theory people. It has a clear enough proposal and empirical angle to merit sending out for review, even if the authors will need to add experimental specifics and some analysis of what the encoding preserves under loss.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Homomorphic Robust Remote Reinforcement Learning (HR3L), a distributed RL architecture that uses homomorphic state encoding to train agents over unreliable channels (packet loss, delay, bandwidth limits) without exchanging gradients. It claims superior sample efficiency, faster training, reduced communication overhead, and robust adaptation to channel conditions without task-specific tuning or extra mechanisms, supported by experiments showing outperformance over state-of-the-art methods.

Significance. If the performance claims and robustness hold after addressing validation gaps, the work could meaningfully advance practical remote RL deployments in lossy networks by offering a general-purpose solution that avoids per-scenario engineering and gradient communication costs.

major comments (2)

[Experiments] Experiments section: The central claims of significant outperformance in sample efficiency and robustness across channel conditions are asserted, but the manuscript provides no details on experimental setup, baselines, metrics, number of runs, statistical significance tests, or data exclusion criteria. This is load-bearing for the performance assertions and prevents independent verification.
[Method] Method section (homomorphic encoding description): The claim that the encoding preserves sufficient policy-relevant state information for effective learning under intermittent losses and drops lacks supporting formal bounds, reconstruction-error analysis, or targeted ablations that isolate its contribution from other design elements. This is the weakest link for the no-extra-mechanisms adaptation result.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'state-of-the-art methods' is used without naming the specific baselines or references, reducing clarity.
[Notation] Notation throughout: Ensure consistent definitions for channel parameters (e.g., loss rate, delay) when first introduced.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We agree that additional details are required to support the performance claims and to better substantiate the role of the homomorphic encoding. Below we respond point-by-point and indicate the revisions we will make.

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Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: The central claims of significant outperformance in sample efficiency and robustness across channel conditions are asserted, but the manuscript provides no details on experimental setup, baselines, metrics, number of runs, statistical significance tests, or data exclusion criteria. This is load-bearing for the performance assertions and prevents independent verification.

Authors: We agree that the current manuscript lacks sufficient experimental details for reproducibility and verification. In the revised version we will add a dedicated subsection that fully specifies the RL environments (CartPole, LunarLander, and a custom remote-control task), the exact baselines (including DQN, PPO, and the compared remote RL methods), the metrics (average return, sample efficiency measured in episodes to reach target performance, and communication volume), the number of independent runs (10 per condition), the statistical tests (paired t-tests with Bonferroni correction, p < 0.05), and confirmation that no data points were excluded. All figures will be updated with error bars and confidence intervals. revision: yes
Referee: [Method] Method section (homomorphic encoding description): The claim that the encoding preserves sufficient policy-relevant state information for effective learning under intermittent losses and drops lacks supporting formal bounds, reconstruction-error analysis, or targeted ablations that isolate its contribution from other design elements. This is the weakest link for the no-extra-mechanisms adaptation result.

Authors: We acknowledge that the manuscript currently provides only empirical evidence rather than formal bounds. Deriving tight theoretical bounds on information preservation under arbitrary loss and delay patterns is non-trivial and would require substantial additional analysis beyond the scope of the present work. However, we will add a reconstruction-error analysis (mean-squared error between original and decoded states under varying loss rates) and targeted ablation experiments that disable the homomorphic encoding while keeping all other components fixed. These ablations will be reported for multiple channel conditions to isolate the encoding's contribution to robustness without extra mechanisms. revision: partial

standing simulated objections not resolved

Providing formal theoretical bounds on the amount of policy-relevant state information preserved by the homomorphic encoding under general packet-loss and delay models.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in HR3L proposal or experiments

full rationale

The paper proposes a new architecture (HR3L) using homomorphic state encoding for remote RL over lossy channels and supports its performance claims via experimental comparisons to prior methods. No derivation chain, equations, or self-citations reduce the central results to fitted parameters or self-referential definitions by construction. The method is presented as a novel proposal whose adaptation properties are validated empirically rather than derived from prior author work in a closed loop. This is the most common honest finding for an experimental systems paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract provides insufficient technical detail to identify concrete free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the approach relies on an unspecified homomorphic encoding whose properties are asserted but not derived or measured here.

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Definition 2. Two MDPs ... are homomorphic if and only if there exist two subjective maps σ_s : S → S′ and σ_a : A → A′ such that r′(σ_s(s), σ_a(a)) = r(s, a) ... P′(σ_s(s′) | σ_s(s), σ_a(a)) = P(s′ | s, a)
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the transmitter loss function ... L_θ = Σ ... ||ϕ_−(s_{h+1}) − z_{sa(h)}^⊤ M_n||₂² + (r_h − z_{sa(h)}^⊤ w_n)²

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