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Imitation learning is well-suited for robotic tasks where it is difficult to directly program the behavior or specify a cost for optimal control. In this work, we propose a method for learning the reward function (and the corresponding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Tianwei Ni , Harshit Sikchi , Yufei Wang , Tejus Gupta , Lisa Lee , Benjamin Eysenbach

A significant challenge for the practical application of reinforcement learning in the real world is the need to specify an oracle reward function that correctly defines a task. Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) seeks to avoid this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Kelvin Xu , Ellis Ratner , Anca Dragan , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

The objective of many real-world tasks is complex and difficult to procedurally specify. This makes it necessary to use reward or imitation learning algorithms to infer a reward or policy directly from human data. Existing benchmarks for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Pedro Freire , Adam Gleave , Sam Toyer , Stuart Russell

Incentive mechanisms for crowdsourcing are designed to incentivize financially self-interested workers to generate and report high-quality labels. Existing mechanisms are often developed as one-shot static solutions, assuming a certain…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Zehong Hu , Yitao Liang , Yang Liu , Jie Zhang

We propose a new approach to inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) based on the deep Gaussian process (deep GP) model, which is capable of learning complicated reward structures with few demonstrations. Our model stacks multiple latent GP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Ming Jin , Andreas Damianou , Pieter Abbeel , Costas Spanos

Post-training has split large language model (LLM) alignment into two largely disconnected tracks. Online reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards drives emergent reasoning on math and code but depends on a programmatic verifier…

Preference-based reward learning is a popular technique for teaching robots and autonomous systems how a human user wants them to perform a task. Previous works have shown that actively synthesizing preference queries to maximize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Evan Ellis , Gaurav R. Ghosal , Stuart J. Russell , Anca Dragan , Erdem Bıyık

Learning agile skills is one of the main challenges in robotics. To this end, reinforcement learning approaches have achieved impressive results. These methods require explicit task information in terms of a reward function or an expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Chenhao Li , Marin Vlastelica , Sebastian Blaes , Jonas Frey , Felix Grimminger , Georg Martius

In wireless networks, radio-frequency (RF) maps are critical for tasks such as capacity planning, coverage estimation, and localization. Traditional approaches for obtaining RF maps, including site surveys and ray-tracing simulations, are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sopan Sarkar , Marwan Krunz

Imitation learning algorithms learn a policy from demonstrations of expert behavior. We show that, for deterministic experts, imitation learning can be done by reduction to reinforcement learning with a stationary reward. Our theoretical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-16 Kamil Ciosek

Making decisions in complex driving environments is a challenging task for autonomous agents. Imitation learning methods have great potentials for achieving such a goal. Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning (AIRL) is one of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Pin Wang , Dapeng Liu , Jiayu Chen , Hanhan Li , Ching-Yao Chan

Generative Adversarial Networks have become one of the most studied frameworks for unsupervised learning due to their intuitive formulation. They have also been shown to be capable of generating convincing examples in limited domains, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Daniel Jiwoong Im , He Ma , Chris Dongjoo Kim , Graham Taylor

Improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) typically relies either on the model's ability to sample a correct solution to be reinforced or on the existence of a stronger model able to solve the problem. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ethan Mendes , Jungsoo Park , Alan Ritter

We address the problem of imitation learning with multi-modal demonstrations. Instead of attempting to learn all modes, we argue that in many tasks it is sufficient to imitate any one of them. We show that the state-of-the-art methods such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Liyiming Ke , Sanjiban Choudhury , Matt Barnes , Wen Sun , Gilwoo Lee , Siddhartha Srinivasa

Aligning diffusion models with human preferences remains challenging, particularly when reward models are unavailable or impractical to obtain, and collecting large-scale preference datasets is prohibitively expensive. \textit{This raises a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xiaoxuan He , Siming Fu , Wanli Li , Zhiyuan Li , Dacheng Yin , Kang Rong , Fengyun Rao , Bo Zhang

The recently proposed distributional approach to reinforcement learning (DiRL) is centered on learning the distribution of the reward-to-go, often referred to as the value distribution. In this work, we show that the distributional Bellman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Dror Freirich , Ron Meir , Aviv Tamar

In recent years, the development of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) systems has been nothing short of remarkable. As these systems continue to evolve, they are being utilized in increasingly complex and unstructured environments,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Maryam Zare , Parham M. Kebria , Abbas Khosravi , Saeid Nahavandi

This study presents a novel approach to Generative Class Incremental Learning (GCIL) by introducing the forgetting mechanism, aimed at dynamically managing class information for better adaptation to streaming data. GCIL is one of the hot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Taro Togo , Ren Togo , Keisuke Maeda , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

Regression is typically treated as a curve-fitting process where the goal is to fit a prediction function to data. With the help of conditional generative adversarial networks, we propose to solve this age-old problem in a different way; we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Deddy Jobson , Eddy Hudson

Imitation Learning (IL) enables agents to mimic expert behavior by learning from demonstrations. However, traditional IL methods require large amounts of medium-to-high-quality demonstrations as well as actions of expert demonstrations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Siqi Yang , Kai Yan , Alexander G. Schwing , Yu-Xiong Wang