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Zero-shot imitation learning algorithms hold the promise of reproducing unseen behavior from as little as a single demonstration at test time. Existing practical approaches view the expert demonstration as a sequence of goals, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Thomas Rupf , Marco Bagatella , Nico Gürtler , Jonas Frey , Georg Martius

Imitation learning is effective for training agents when expert demonstrations are available, but collecting demonstrations for every complex task in an environment is costly. We study the long-horizon, goal-conditioned setting where a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Maxwell J. Jacobson , Yexiang Xue

We propose a model-free deep reinforcement learning method that leverages a small amount of demonstration data to assist a reinforcement learning agent. We apply this approach to robotic manipulation tasks and train end-to-end visuomotor…

Visual imitation learning enables robotic agents to acquire skills by observing expert demonstration videos. In the one-shot setting, the agent generates a policy after observing a single expert demonstration without additional fine-tuning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Raktim Gautam Goswami , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Yann LeCun , Farshad Khorrami

Unlike most reinforcement learning agents which require an unrealistic amount of environment interactions to learn a new behaviour, humans excel at learning quickly by merely observing and imitating others. This ability highly depends on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Xingyuan Zhang , Philip Becker-Ehmck , Patrick van der Smagt , Maximilian Karl

Can we learn robot manipulation for everyday tasks, only by watching videos of humans doing arbitrary tasks in different unstructured settings? Unlike widely adopted strategies of learning task-specific behaviors or direct imitation of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani , Vikash Kumar

In the same way that generative models today conduct most of their training in a self-supervised fashion, how can agentic models conduct their training in a self-supervised fashion, interactively exploring, learning, and preparing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Kathryn Wantlin , Chongyi Zheng , Benjamin Eysenbach

Imitation learning is a popular approach for training visual navigation policies. However, collecting expert demonstrations for legged robots is challenging as these robots can be hard to control, move slowly, and cannot operate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Xinlei Pan , Tingnan Zhang , Brian Ichter , Aleksandra Faust , Jie Tan , Sehoon Ha

In this work we present a method for leveraging data from one source to learn how to do multiple new tasks. Task transfer is achieved using a self-model that encapsulates the dynamics of a system and serves as an environment for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Robert Kwiatkowski , Hod Lipson

Imitation learning is an effective approach for autonomous systems to acquire control policies when an explicit reward function is unavailable, using supervision provided as demonstrations from an expert, typically a human operator.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 YuXuan Liu , Abhishek Gupta , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Training vision-based manipulation policies that are robust across diverse visual environments remains an important and unresolved challenge in robot learning. Current approaches often sidestep the problem by relying on invariant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sumeet Batra , Gaurav Sukhatme

Imitation learning aims to extract knowledge from human experts' demonstrations or artificially created agents in order to replicate their behaviors. Its success has been demonstrated in areas such as video games, autonomous driving,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Boyuan Zheng , Sunny Verma , Jianlong Zhou , Ivor Tsang , Fang Chen

One-shot imitation is to learn a new task from a single demonstration, yet it is a challenging problem to adopt it for complex tasks with the high domain diversity inherent in a non-stationary environment. To tackle the problem, we explore…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Sangwoo Shin , Daehee Lee , Minjong Yoo , Woo Kyung Kim , Honguk Woo

Imitation learning is the process by which one agent tries to learn how to perform a certain task using information generated by another, often more-expert agent performing that same task. Conventionally, the imitator has access to both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Faraz Torabi , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

We present an algorithm that learns to imitate expert behavior and can transfer to previously unseen domains without retraining. Such an algorithm is extremely relevant in real-world applications such as robotic learning because 1) reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Alvaro Cauderan , Gauthier Boeshertz , Florian Schwarb , Calvin Zhang

Zero-shot learning, which aims to recognize new categories that are not included in the training set, has gained popularity owing to its potential ability in the real-word applications. Zero-shot learning models rely on learning an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xinsheng Wang , Shanmin Pang , Jihua Zhu , Zhongyu Li , Zhiqiang Tian , Yaochen Li

Imitation learning enables autonomous agents to learn from human examples, without the need for a reward signal. Still, if the provided dataset does not encapsulate the task correctly, or when the task is too complex to be modeled, such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Federico Malato , Ville Hautamaki

In imitation learning, an agent learns how to behave in an environment with an unknown cost function by mimicking expert demonstrations. Existing imitation learning algorithms typically involve solving a sequence of planning or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Jonathan Ho , Jayesh K. Gupta , Stefano Ermon

Vision-based imitation learning has shown promising capabilities of endowing robots with various motion skills given visual observation. However, current visuomotor policies fail to adapt to drastic changes in their visual observations. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Pingcheng Jian , Easop Lee , Zachary Bell , Michael M. Zavlanos , Boyuan Chen

It is a long-standing challenge to enable an intelligent agent to learn in one environment and generalize to an unseen environment without further data collection and finetuning. In this paper, we consider a zero shot generalization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Huazhe Xu , Boyuan Chen , Yang Gao , Trevor Darrell
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