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Autonomous driving has gained significant advancements in recent years. However, obtaining a robust control policy for driving remains challenging as it requires training data from a variety of scenarios, including rare situations (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Weizi Li , David Wolinski , Ming C. Lin

Unlike popular modularized framework, end-to-end autonomous driving seeks to solve the perception, decision and control problems in an integrated way, which can be more adapting to new scenarios and easier to generalize at scale. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Jianyu Chen , Shengbo Eben Li , Masayoshi Tomizuka

We present a training pipeline for the autonomous driving task given the current camera image and vehicle speed as the input to produce the throttle, brake, and steering control output. The simulator Airsim's convenient weather and lighting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Tianqi Wang , Dong Eui Chang

Imitation learning (IL) has shown strong potential for contact-rich precision insertion tasks. However, its practical deployment is often hindered by covariate shift and the need for continuous expert monitoring to recover from failures…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yiou Huang , Ning Ma , Weichu Zhao , Zinuo Liu , Jun Sun , Qiufeng Wang , Yaran Chen

On-policy imitation learning algorithms such as DAgger evolve a robot control policy by executing it, measuring performance (loss), obtaining corrective feedback from a supervisor, and generating the next policy. As the loss between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Jonathan N. Lee , Michael Laskey , Ajay Kumar Tanwani , Anil Aswani , Ken Goldberg

Learning-based approaches for solving large sequential decision making problems have become popular in recent years. The resulting agents perform differently and their characteristics depend on those of the underlying learning approach.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Timo P. Gros , Daniel Höller , Jörg Hoffmann , Verena Wolf

Deep neural networks trained on demonstrations of human actions give robot the ability to perform self-driving on the road. However, navigation in a pedestrian-rich environment, such as a campus setup, is still challenging---one needs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Jing Bi , Tianyou Xiao , Qiuyue Sun , Chenliang Xu

End-to-end approaches to autonomous driving commonly rely on expert demonstrations. Although humans are good drivers, they are not good coaches for end-to-end algorithms that demand dense on-policy supervision. On the contrary, automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Zhejun Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Dengxin Dai , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

Long-horizon LM agents learn from multi-turn interaction, where a single early mistake can alter the subsequent state distribution and derail the whole trajectory. Existing recipes fall short in complementary ways: supervised fine-tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Changhao Li , Rushi Qiang , Jiawei Huang , Chenxiao Gao , Chao Zhang , Niao He , Bo Dai

Corrective interventions while a robot is learning to automate a task provide an intuitive method for a human supervisor to assist the robot and convey information about desired behavior. However, these interventions can impose significant…

End-to-end autonomous driving aims to build a fully differentiable system that takes raw sensor data as inputs and directly outputs the planned trajectory or control signals of the ego vehicle. State-of-the-art methods usually follow the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xiaosong Jia , Yulu Gao , Li Chen , Junchi Yan , Patrick Langechuan Liu , Hongyang Li

This paper investigates how end-to-end driving models can be improved to drive more accurately and human-like. To tackle the first issue we exploit semantic and visual maps from HERE Technologies and augment the existing Drive360 dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Simon Hecker , Dengxin Dai , Alexander Liniger , Luc Van Gool

Policies for partially observed Markov decision processes can be efficiently learned by imitating policies for the corresponding fully observed Markov decision processes. Unfortunately, existing approaches for this kind of imitation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Andrew Warrington , J. Wilder Lavington , Adam Ścibior , Mark Schmidt , Frank Wood

Autonomous driving is a multi-task problem requiring a deep understanding of the visual environment. End-to-end autonomous systems have attracted increasing interest as a method of learning to drive without exhaustively programming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Alexander Makrigiorgos , Ali Shafti , Alex Harston , Julien Gerard , A. Aldo Faisal

Developing autonomous vehicles that can navigate complex environments with human-level safety and efficiency is a central goal in self-driving research. A common approach to achieving this is imitation learning, where agents are trained to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Clémence Grislain , Risto Vuorio , Cong Lu , Shimon Whiteson

Reinforcement Learning algorithms can learn complex behavioral patterns for sequential decision making tasks wherein an agent interacts with an environment and acquires feedback in the form of rewards sampled from it. Traditionally, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Sahil Sharma , Aravind Srinivas , Balaraman Ravindran

Self-driving vehicles must be able to act intelligently in diverse and difficult environments, marked by high-dimensional state spaces, a myriad of optimization objectives and complex behaviors. Traditionally, classical optimization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Josiah Coad , Zhiqian Qiao , John M. Dolan

Human teaching effort is a significant bottleneck for the broader applicability of interactive imitation learning. To reduce the number of required queries, existing methods employ active learning to query the human teacher only in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jelle Luijkx , Zlatan Ajanović , Laura Ferranti , Jens Kober

We consider online imitation learning (OIL), where the task is to find a policy that imitates the behavior of an expert via active interaction with the environment. We aim to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jonathan Wilder Lavington , Sharan Vaswani , Mark Schmidt

Imitation learning is a promising approach for training autonomous vehicles (AV) to navigate complex traffic environments by mimicking expert driver behaviors. While existing imitation learning frameworks focus on leveraging expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yasin Sonmez , Hanna Krasowski , Murat Arcak