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Generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) demonstrates tremendous success in practice, especially when combined with neural networks. Different from reinforcement learning, GAIL learns both policy and reward function from expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yufeng Zhang , Qi Cai , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang

We tackle a common scenario in imitation learning (IL), where agents try to recover the optimal policy from expert demonstrations without further access to the expert or environment reward signals. Except the simple Behavior Cloning (BC)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Minghuan Liu , Tairan He , Minkai Xu , Weinan Zhang

Humans often learn how to perform tasks via imitation: they observe others perform a task, and then very quickly infer the appropriate actions to take based on their observations. While extending this paradigm to autonomous agents is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Faraz Torabi , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

Imitation Learning (IL) is an effective learning paradigm exploiting the interactions between agents and environments. It does not require explicit reward signals and instead tries to recover desired policies using expert demonstrations. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yang Liu , Yongzhe Chang , Shilei Jiang , Xueqian Wang , Bin Liang , Bo Yuan

Imitation learning (IL) aims to mimic the behavior of an expert in a sequential decision making task by learning from demonstrations, and has been widely applied to robotics, autonomous driving, and autoregressive text generation. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Dylan J. Foster , Adam Block , Dipendra Misra

We propose Generative Predecessor Models for Imitation Learning (GPRIL), a novel imitation learning algorithm that matches the state-action distribution to the distribution observed in expert demonstrations, using generative models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Yannick Schroecker , Mel Vecerik , Jonathan Scholz

Imitation learning is a primary approach to improve the efficiency of reinforcement learning by exploiting the expert demonstrations. However, in many real scenarios, obtaining expert demonstrations could be extremely expensive or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Kun-Peng Ning , Hu Xu , Kun Zhu , Sheng-Jun Huang

Understanding an agent's goals from its behavior is fundamental to aligning AI systems with human intentions. Existing goal recognition methods typically rely on an optimal goal-oriented policy representation, which may differ from the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Osher Elhadad , Felipe Meneguzzi , Reuth Mirsky

Imitation learning (IL) has proven to be an effective method for learning good policies from expert demonstrations. Adversarial imitation learning (AIL), a subset of IL methods, is particularly promising, but its theoretical foundation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Tian Xu , Ziniu Li , Yang Yu , Zhi-Quan Luo

Often times in imitation learning (IL), the environment we collect expert demonstrations in and the environment we want to deploy our learned policy in aren't exactly the same (e.g. demonstrations collected in simulation but deployment in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Silvia Sapora , Gokul Swamy , Chris Lu , Yee Whye Teh , Jakob Nicolaus Foerster

We propose an imitation learning system for autonomous driving in urban traffic with interactions. We train a Behavioral Cloning~(BC) policy to imitate driving behavior collected from the real urban traffic, and apply the data aggregation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Zhao-Heng Yin , Chenran Li , Liting Sun , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

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

Simulation is an appealing option for validating the safety of autonomous vehicles. Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) has recently been shown to learn representative human driver models. These human driver models were learned…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Raunak P. Bhattacharyya , Derek J. Phillips , Blake Wulfe , Jeremy Morton , Alex Kuefler , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Despite massive empirical evaluations, one of the fundamental questions in imitation learning is still not fully settled: does AIL (adversarial imitation learning) provably generalize better than BC (behavioral cloning)? We study this open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Tian Xu , Ziniu Li , Yang Yu , Zhi-Quan Luo

We study online adversarial imitation learning (AIL), where an agent learns from offline expert demonstrations and interacts with the environment online without access to rewards. Despite strong empirical results, the benefits of online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shangzhe Li , Dongruo Zhou , Weitong Zhang

Autonomous driving is a complex task, which has been tackled since the first self-driving car ALVINN in 1989, with a supervised learning approach, or behavioral cloning (BC). In BC, a neural network is trained with state-action pairs that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto , Eric Aislan Antonelo

Model-free deep reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated its superiority on many complex sequential decision-making problems. However, heavy dependence on dense rewards and high sample-complexity impedes the wide adoption of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Zhuangdi Zhu , Kaixiang Lin , Bo Dai , Jiayu Zhou

Behavior cloning of expert demonstrations can speed up learning optimal policies in a more sample-efficient way over reinforcement learning. However, the policy cannot extrapolate well to unseen states outside of the demonstration data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jung Yeon Park , Lawson L. S. Wong

Behavioural cloning is an imitation learning technique that teaches an agent how to behave via expert demonstrations. Recent approaches use self-supervision of fully-observable unlabelled snapshots of the states to decode state pairs into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Juarez Monteiro , Nathan Gavenski , Felipe Meneguzzi , Rodrigo C. Barros

The fundamental limitation of the behavioral cloning (BC) approach to imitation learning is that it only teaches an agent what the expert did at states the expert visited. This means that when a BC agent makes a mistake which takes them out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Arnav Kumar Jain , Vibhakar Mohta , Subin Kim , Atiksh Bhardwaj , Juntao Ren , Yunhai Feng , Sanjiban Choudhury , Gokul Swamy