ESCORT: Efficient Stein-variational and Sliced Consistency-Optimized Temporal Belief Representation for POMDPs

This is the official repository of ESCORT: Efficient Stein-variational and Sliced Consistency-Optimized Temporal Belief Representation for POMDPs

If you have any questions about the paper/code, please feel free to reach out to yunuo.zhang@vanderbilt.edu

⚙️ Configurations

Install Dependencies:

chmod +x install_dependencies.sh
./install_dependencies.sh
chmod +x install_atari_roms.sh
./install_atari_roms.sh

Install Python3.14:

python3.14 -m venv escort_venv

📚 Citation

If you find this work useful, please consider citing:

@misc{escort_zhang,
    title={ESCORT: Efficient Stein-variational and Sliced Consistency-Optimized Temporal Belief Representation for POMDPs},
    author={Yunuo Zhang and Baiting Luo and Ayan Mukhopadhyay and Gabor Karsai and Abhishek Dubey},
    year={2025},
    eprint={2510.21107},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.LG},
    url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21107}
}