Crossing the Separation Point: Stabilizing Decision-Focused Training with Recursive Variational Free-Energy

Authors

Shunyu Wu

J. Wang

H. Geng

H. Xu

Keywords

decision-focused learning, training stability, recursive variational free-energy

Status: Under Review (ICML 2026)

This manuscript studies unstable dynamics around separation boundaries in decision-focused training and proposes recursive variational free-energy regularization for stable end-to-end optimization.