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In the adaptive information gathering problem, a policy is required to select an informative sensing location using the history of measurements acquired thus far. While there is an extensive amount of prior work investigating effective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Sanjiban Choudhury , Ashish Kapoor , Gireeja Ranade , Sebastian Scherer , Debadeepta Dey

Imitation learning is an approach in which an agent learns how to execute a task by trying to mimic how one or more teachers perform it. This learning approach offers a compromise between the time it takes to learn a new task and the effort…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Nathan Gavenski , Felipe Meneguzzi , Michael Luck , Odinaldo Rodrigues

We study the problem of imitating an expert demonstrator in a discrete-time, continuous state-and-action control system. We show that, even if the dynamics satisfy a control-theoretic property called exponential stability (i.e. the effects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Max Simchowitz , Daniel Pfrommer , Ali Jadbabaie

We propose a novel approach to train a multi-modal policy from mixed demonstrations without their behavior labels. We develop a method to discover the latent factors of variation in the demonstrations. Specifically, our method is based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Fang-I Hsiao , Jui-Hsuan Kuo , Min Sun

Machine learning systems have been widely used to make decisions about individuals who may behave strategically to receive favorable outcomes, e.g., they may genuinely improve the true labels or manipulate observable features directly to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Tian Xie , Zhiqun Zuo , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili , Xueru Zhang

Imitation Learning from Observation (ILfO) is a setting in which a learner tries to imitate the behavior of an expert, using only observational data and without the direct guidance of demonstrated actions. In this paper, we re-examine…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Wei-Di Chang , Scott Fujimoto , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

Imitation from observation (IfO) is the problem of learning directly from state-only demonstrations without having access to the demonstrator's actions. The lack of action information both distinguishes IfO from most of the literature in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Faraz Torabi , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

In this paper, we introduce MAAD, a novel, sample-efficient on-policy algorithm for Imitation Learning from Observations. MAAD utilizes a surrogate reward signal, which can be derived from various sources such as adversarial games,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 João A. Cândido Ramos , Lionel Blondé , Naoya Takeishi , Alexandros Kalousis

This paper studies Learning from Observations (LfO) for imitation learning with access to state-only demonstrations. In contrast to Learning from Demonstration (LfD) that involves both action and state supervision, LfO is more practical in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Chao Yang , Xiaojian Ma , Wenbing Huang , Fuchun Sun , Huaping Liu , Junzhou Huang , Chuang Gan

We examine the problem of transferring a policy learned in a source environment to a target environment with different dynamics, particularly in the case where it is critical to reduce the amount of interaction with the target environment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Siddharth Desai , Ishan Durugkar , Haresh Karnan , Garrett Warnell , Josiah Hanna , Peter Stone

Imitation learning seeks to learn an expert policy from sampled demonstrations. However, in the real world, it is often difficult to find a perfect expert and avoiding dangerous behaviors becomes relevant for safety reasons. We present the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 David Venuto , Leonard Boussioux , Junhao Wang , Rola Dali , Jhelum Chakravorty , Yoshua Bengio , Doina Precup

Learning robot policies using imitation learning requires collecting large amounts of costly action-labeled expert demonstrations, which fundamentally limits the scale of training data. A promising approach to address this bottleneck is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anthony Liang , Pavel Czempin , Matthew Hong , Yutai Zhou , Erdem Biyik , Stephen Tu

Learning from demonstration (LfD) has succeeded in tasks featuring a long time horizon. However, when the problem complexity also includes human-in-the-loop perturbations, state-of-the-art approaches do not guarantee the successful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yanwei Wang , Nadia Figueroa , Shen Li , Ankit Shah , Julie Shah

In this work we consider partially observable environments with sparse rewards. We present a self-supervised representation learning method for image-based observations, which arranges embeddings respecting temporal distance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Aleksandr Ermolov , Nicu Sebe

Learning predictive models from interaction with the world allows an agent, such as a robot, to learn about how the world works, and then use this learned model to plan coordinated sequences of actions to bring about desired outcomes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Karl Schmeckpeper , Annie Xie , Oleh Rybkin , Stephen Tian , Kostas Daniilidis , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Reinforcement learning methods require careful design involving a reward function to obtain the desired action policy for a given task. In the absence of hand-crafted reward functions, prior work on the topic has proposed several methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Daiki Kimura , Subhajit Chaudhury , Ryuki Tachibana , Sakyasingha Dasgupta

Humans often acquire new skills through observation and imitation. For robotic agents, learning from the plethora of unlabeled video demonstration data available on the Internet necessitates imitating the expert without access to its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Yuyang Liu , Weijun Dong , Yingdong Hu , Chuan Wen , Zhao-Heng Yin , Chongjie Zhang , Yang Gao

Learning from demonstration is widely used as an efficient way for robots to acquire new skills. However, it typically requires that demonstrations provide full access to the state and action sequences. In contrast, learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Zachary W. Robertson , Matthew R. Walter

Learning agent behaviors from observational data has shown to improve our understanding of their decision-making processes, advancing our ability to explain their interactions with the environment and other agents. While multiple learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Andrea Coletta , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Tucker Balch

Existing imitation learning approaches often require that the complete demonstration data, including sequences of actions and states, are available. In this paper, we consider a more realistic and difficult scenario where a reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Xiaoxiao Guo , Shiyu Chang , Mo Yu , Gerald Tesauro , Murray Campbell