| """ |
| Runtime safety supervisor for an embodied or agentic policy. |
| |
| A policy that's fast isn't the same as a policy you can leave running on its own. |
| This sits between the policy and the actuator, watches every action it proposes, |
| and when an action drifts somewhere the policy was never calibrated for, it swaps |
| in a safe fallback and writes down why. That log is the governance trail: an |
| on-call engineer or a regulator can read exactly when the policy got overridden |
| and what tripped it. |
| |
| What it checks, on every action: |
| - shape: a malformed action is treated as unsafe, never crashes the loop. |
| - finite: no NaN or Inf ever reaches a motor. |
| - in-bounds: every dimension stays inside the action limits. |
| - drift (OOD): how far the action sits from the calibration set, as a per-dim |
| z-score pooled into one distance. This is a deliberately simple v0 (diagonal |
| Gaussian); it catches gross drift, not subtle correlated shifts. The |
| drift_thresh isn't a guess: evaluate.py sweeps it against a labelled set |
| (real DROID actions + injected faults) to pick an operating point. On DROID |
| the detector scores AUC 0.99, and a threshold of ~2.2 catches 91% of faults |
| at a 1% false-positive rate; the shipped default (4.0) is conservative on |
| purpose, so tune it to your fleet with evaluate.py. |
| - jerk: how big the jump is from the last accepted action, against the |
| calibration jerk. |
| |
| When a check trips, the supervisor returns a safe action (hold the last accepted |
| one, clipped to limits) and appends an intervention record. The log is capped, and |
| the running counts are kept separately so they stay exact even after trimming, so |
| this is safe to leave running. No GPU. It's the trust layer that rides on top of |
| the efficient policy: efficiency gets the model onto the robot, this is what lets |
| it stay there. |
| """ |
| import json |
| from dataclasses import dataclass, field |
|
|
| import numpy as np |
|
|
|
|
| @dataclass |
| class SupervisorConfig: |
| action_low: np.ndarray |
| action_high: np.ndarray |
| drift_thresh: float = 4.0 |
| jerk_thresh: float = 4.0 |
| eps: float = 1e-6 |
| max_log: int = 2000 |
|
|
|
|
| @dataclass |
| class Intervention: |
| step: int |
| reasons: list |
| drift: float |
| jerk: float |
| action_in: list |
| action_out: list |
|
|
|
|
| @dataclass |
| class Supervisor: |
| cfg: SupervisorConfig |
| _t: int = 0 |
| _last_safe: np.ndarray = None |
| _mean: np.ndarray = None |
| _std: np.ndarray = None |
| _jmean: np.ndarray = None |
| _jstd: np.ndarray = None |
| _n_iv: int = 0 |
| _reasons: dict = field(default_factory=dict) |
| _max_drift: float = 0.0 |
| log: list = field(default_factory=list) |
|
|
| def calibrate(self, actions): |
| """Fit the in-distribution stats from a calibration set. actions: [N>=8, A].""" |
| a = np.asarray(actions, dtype=np.float64) |
| if a.ndim != 2 or a.shape[0] < 8: |
| raise ValueError("calibrate needs a [N, action_dim] array with N >= 8 real samples") |
| rng = np.asarray(self.cfg.action_high, float) - np.asarray(self.cfg.action_low, float) |
| floor = np.maximum(self.cfg.eps, 1e-3 * np.abs(rng)) |
| self._mean = a.mean(0) |
| self._std = np.maximum(a.std(0), floor) |
| d = np.diff(a, axis=0) |
| self._jmean = d.mean(0) |
| self._jstd = np.maximum(d.std(0), floor) |
| self._last_safe = np.clip(a[-1], self.cfg.action_low, self.cfg.action_high) |
| return self |
|
|
| def _pooled_z(self, x, mean, std): |
| return float(np.sqrt(np.mean(((x - mean) / std) ** 2))) |
|
|
| def drift_score(self, action): |
| """Pooled z-distance of an action from the calibration set, read-only. |
| |
| Same quantity step() thresholds for drift (computed on the in-bounds |
| action), but with no side effects, so you can sweep a threshold over a |
| labelled set to get an ROC. Non-finite or wrong-shape actions score inf. |
| """ |
| if self._mean is None: |
| raise RuntimeError("calibrate() before scoring") |
| a = np.asarray(action, dtype=np.float64).reshape(-1) |
| if a.size != self._mean.size or not np.all(np.isfinite(a)): |
| return float("inf") |
| clipped = np.clip(a, self.cfg.action_low, self.cfg.action_high) |
| return self._pooled_z(clipped, self._mean, self._std) |
|
|
| def _safe_out(self): |
| if self._last_safe is not None: |
| return np.clip(self._last_safe, self.cfg.action_low, self.cfg.action_high) |
| return np.zeros(np.asarray(self.cfg.action_low, float).size) |
|
|
| def _record(self, reasons, drift, jerk, a_in, a_out): |
| self._n_iv += 1 |
| self._max_drift = max(self._max_drift, drift) |
| for r in reasons: |
| self._reasons[r] = self._reasons.get(r, 0) + 1 |
| rec = Intervention(self._t, reasons, round(drift, 3), round(jerk, 3), |
| np.asarray(a_in, float).tolist(), np.asarray(a_out, float).tolist()) |
| self.log.append(rec) |
| if len(self.log) > self.cfg.max_log: |
| self.log = self.log[-self.cfg.max_log:] |
| return rec |
|
|
| def step(self, action): |
| """Vet one proposed action. Returns (safe_action, intervention_or_None).""" |
| self._t += 1 |
| a = np.asarray(action, dtype=np.float64).reshape(-1) |
| expected = np.asarray(self.cfg.action_low, float).size |
|
|
| if a.size != expected: |
| out = self._safe_out() |
| return out, self._record(["bad_shape"], 0.0, 0.0, a, out) |
|
|
| reasons = [] |
| if not np.all(np.isfinite(a)): |
| reasons.append("nonfinite") |
| a = np.nan_to_num(a, nan=0.0, posinf=0.0, neginf=0.0) |
|
|
| clipped = np.clip(a, self.cfg.action_low, self.cfg.action_high) |
| if not np.allclose(clipped, a, atol=1e-9): |
| reasons.append("out_of_bounds") |
|
|
| drift = self._pooled_z(clipped, self._mean, self._std) if self._mean is not None else 0.0 |
| if drift > self.cfg.drift_thresh: |
| reasons.append("drift") |
|
|
| jerk = 0.0 |
| if self._last_safe is not None and self._jstd is not None: |
| jerk = self._pooled_z(clipped - self._last_safe, self._jmean, self._jstd) |
| if jerk > self.cfg.jerk_thresh: |
| reasons.append("jerk") |
|
|
| if reasons: |
| out = self._safe_out() |
| return out, self._record(reasons, drift, jerk, clipped, out) |
|
|
| self._last_safe = clipped |
| return clipped, None |
|
|
| def report(self): |
| return {"steps": self._t, "interventions": self._n_iv, |
| "intervention_rate": round(self._n_iv / max(1, self._t), 4), |
| "by_reason": dict(self._reasons), "max_drift": round(self._max_drift, 3), |
| "logged": len(self.log)} |
|
|
| def save_log(self, path): |
| with open(path, "w") as f: |
| json.dump({"report": self.report(), |
| "interventions": [r.__dict__ for r in self.log]}, f, indent=2) |
|
|
|
|
| if __name__ == "__main__": |
| rng = np.random.default_rng(0) |
| A = 7 |
| cfg = SupervisorConfig(action_low=np.full(A, -1.0), action_high=np.full(A, 1.0)) |
| sup = Supervisor(cfg).calibrate(rng.normal(0, 0.25, size=(2000, A)).clip(-1, 1)) |
|
|
| for _ in range(200): |
| sup.step(rng.normal(0, 0.25, size=A).clip(-1, 1)) |
| for bad in [np.full(A, np.nan), np.full(A, 5.0), np.zeros(3)]: |
| _, iv = sup.step(bad) |
| print("intervention:", iv.reasons if iv else None) |
| print("report:", sup.report()) |
|
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