Publications

Below is a selection of publications organized by research area. For a complete and up-to-date list, see my Google Scholar profile.

Physics-informed Reinforcement Learning

• Physics-informed Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning under Hybrid Contact Dynamics
  Vittorio Giammarino, Anastasios Manganaris, and Ahmed H. Qureshi. Preprint, 2026.
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• Goal Reaching with Eikonal-Constrained Hierarchical Quasimetric Reinforcement Learning
  Vittorio Giammarino and Ahmed H. Qureshi. ICLR 2026.
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• Physics-informed Value Learner for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
  Vittorio Giammarino, Ruiqi Ni, and Ahmed H. Qureshi. NeurIPS 2025.
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Formal Methods for Policy Learning

• Automaton Constrained Q-Learning
  Anastasios Manganaris, Vittorio Giammarino, and Ahmed H. Qureshi. NeurIPS 2025.
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• Formal Methods in Robot Policy Learning and Verification: A Survey on Current Techniques and Future Directions
  Anastasios Manganaris, Vittorio Giammarino, Ahmed H. Qureshi, and Suresh Jagannathan. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2026.
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Visual Imitation and Inverse Reinforcement Learning

• Beyond Domain Randomization: Event-Inspired Perception for Visually Robust Adversarial Imitation from Videos
  Andrea Ramazzina, Vittorio Giammarino, Matteo El-Hariry, and Mario Bijelic. ICRA 2026.
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• Visually Robust Adversarial Imitation Learning from Videos with Contrastive Learning
  Vittorio Giammarino, James Queeney, and Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis. ICRA 2025.
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• Adversarial Imitation Learning from Visual Observations using Latent Information
  Vittorio Giammarino, James Queeney, and Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024.
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Learning and Control for Transportation

• Reinforcement Learning-based Receding Horizon Control using Adaptive Control Barrier Functions for Safety-Critical Systems
  Ehsan Sabouni, H. M. Sabbir Ahmad, Vittorio Giammarino, Christos G. Cassandras, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis, and Wenchao Li. CDC 2024.
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• Traffic Flow on a Ring With a Single Autonomous Vehicle: An Interconnected Stability Perspective
  Vittorio Giammarino, Simone Baldi, Paolo Frasca, and Maria Laura Delle Monache. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2021.

• On a Weaker Notion of Ring Stability for Mixed Traffic with Human-Driven and Autonomous Vehicles
  Vittorio Giammarino, Maolong Lv, Simone Baldi, Paolo Frasca, and Maria Laura Delle Monache. CDC 2019.