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arxivcs.AIcs.CR2026-07-19

Learning-Driven Adaptive Audit Scheduling: A Sequential Decision Approach to Off-Chain Data Integrity

Changting Lin, Fan Li, Weihang Yu, Keyang He, Mingyuan Yan, Yourong Chen, Meng Han

We model cryptographic auditing of off-chain data as a Constrained MDP (CMDP) under partial observability: the storage node's hidden type and corruption state make the problem a POMDP, while a miss-rate ceiling rho imposes an explicit security constraint. We propose DRQN-CMDP, a Deep Recurrent Q-Network whose GRU layer maintains a belief over the latent node type, paired with Lagrangian dual ascent that adapts the miss-rate penalty lambda automatically. A pairing-free homomorphic-MAC primitive supplies O(1) on-chain verification cost. Across 13 methods--four DQN variants, PPO, A2C, PPO-Lagrangian, a stateful Bayesian heuristic, three fixed-rule baselines, and an oracle-informed heuristic--DRQN-CMDP achieves a favourable balance: 83% lower gas than fixed high-frequency auditing, single-digit miss rate (7.5%), and moderate detection latency--a combination no other method matches across all three objectives simultaneously.

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