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Imitation Learning (IL) techniques aim to replicate human behaviors in specific tasks. While IL has gained prominence due to its effectiveness and efficiency, traditional methods often focus on datasets collected from experts to produce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Mathieu Petitbois , Rémy Portelas , Sylvain Lamprier , Ludovic Denoyer

Autonomous urban driving navigation with complex multi-agent dynamics is under-explored due to the difficulty of learning an optimal driving policy. The traditional modular pipeline heavily relies on hand-designed rules and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Xiaodan Liang , Tairui Wang , Luona Yang , Eric Xing

We present an imitation learning method for autonomous drone patrolling based only on raw videos. Different from previous methods, we propose to let the drone learn patrolling in the air by observing and imitating how a human navigator does…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Yue Fan , Shilei Chu , Wei Zhang , Ran Song , Yibin Li

Automating the navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in diverse scenarios has gained much attention in recent years. However, teaching UAVs to fly in challenging environments remains an unsolved problem, mainly due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Matthias Müller , Vincent Casser , Neil Smith , Dominik L. Michels , Bernard Ghanem

Adversarial imitation learning (AIL), a prominent approach in imitation learning, has achieved significant practical success powered by neural network approximation. However, existing theoretical analyses of AIL are primarily confined to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tian Xu , Zhilong Zhang , Zexuan Chen , Ruishuo Chen , Yihao Sun , Yang Yu

Hand-crafting generalised decision-making rules for real-world urban autonomous driving is hard. Alternatively, learning behaviour from easy-to-collect human driving demonstrations is appealing. Prior work has studied imitation learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Jeffrey Hawke , Richard Shen , Corina Gurau , Siddharth Sharma , Daniele Reda , Nikolay Nikolov , Przemyslaw Mazur , Sean Micklethwaite , Nicolas Griffiths , Amar Shah , Alex Kendall

Imitation learning is a promising approach to end-to-end training of autonomous vehicle controllers. Typically the driving process with such approaches is entirely automatic and black-box, although in practice it is desirable to control the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Renhao Wang , Adam Scibior , Frank Wood

Imitation Learning (IL) algorithms offer an efficient way to train an agent by mimicking an expert's behavior without requiring a reward function. IL algorithms often necessitate access to state and action information from expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Returaj Burnwal , Hriday Mehta , Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt , Balaraman Ravindran

Imitation Learning (IL) is an appealing approach to learn desirable autonomous behavior. However, directing IL to achieve arbitrary goals is difficult. In contrast, planning-based algorithms use dynamics models and reward functions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Nicholas Rhinehart , Rowan McAllister , Sergey Levine

Existing imitation learning methods suffer from low efficiency and generalization ability when facing the road option problem in an urban environment. In this paper, we propose a yaw-guided imitation learning method to improve the road…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Yandong Liu , Chengzhong Xu , Hui Kong

Imitation learning holds tremendous promise in learning policies efficiently for complex decision making problems. Current state-of-the-art algorithms often use inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), where given a set of expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Siddhant Haldar , Vaibhav Mathur , Denis Yarats , Lerrel Pinto

Imitation learning (IL) enables agents to mimic expert behaviors. Most previous IL techniques focus on precisely imitating one policy through mass demonstrations. However, in many applications, what humans require is the ability to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xiong-Hui Chen , Junyin Ye , Hang Zhao , Yi-Chen Li , Haoran Shi , Yu-Yan Xu , Zhihao Ye , Si-Hang Yang , Anqi Huang , Kai Xu , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

Autonomous navigation in the underwater environment is challenging due to limited visibility, dynamic changes, and the lack of a cost-efficient accurate localization system. We introduce UIVNav, a novel end-to-end underwater navigation…

Current lane detection methods are struggling with the invisibility lane issue caused by heavy shadows, severe road mark degradation, and serious vehicle occlusion. As a result, discriminative lane features can be barely learned by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yue He , Minyue Jiang , Xiaoqing Ye , Liang Du , Zhikang Zou , Wei Zhang , Xiao Tan , Errui Ding

Autonomous car racing is a challenging task in the robotic control area. Traditional modular methods require accurate mapping, localization and planning, which makes them computationally inefficient and sensitive to environmental changes.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Peide Cai , Hengli Wang , Huaiyang Huang , Yuxuan Liu , Ming Liu

Observational learning requires an agent to learn to perform a task by referencing only observations of the performed task. This work investigates the equivalent setting in real-world robot learning where access to hand-designed rewards and…

This paper provides a preliminary study for an efficient learning algorithm by reasoning the error from first principle physics to generate learning signals in near real time. Motivated by iterative learning control (ILC), this learning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-12 Minghui Zheng , Zhu Chen , Xiao Liang

Self-imitation learning is a Reinforcement Learning (RL) method that encourages actions whose returns were higher than expected, which helps in hard exploration and sparse reward problems. It was shown to improve the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Johan Ferret , Olivier Pietquin , Matthieu Geist

We introduce Correspondence-Oriented Imitation Learning (COIL), a conditional policy learning framework for visuomotor control with a flexible task representation in 3D. At the core of our approach, each task is defined by the intended…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yunhao Cao , Zubin Bhaumik , Jessie Jia , Xingyi He , Kuan Fang

An open problem in autonomous vehicle safety validation is building reliable models of human driving behavior in simulation. This work presents an approach to learn neural driving policies from real world driving demonstration data. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Raunak Bhattacharyya , Blake Wulfe , Derek Phillips , Alex Kuefler , Jeremy Morton , Ransalu Senanayake , Mykel Kochenderfer