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Imitation Learning from observation describes policy learning in a similar way to human learning. An agent's policy is trained by observing an expert performing a task. While many state-only imitation learning approaches are based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Damian Boborzi , Christoph-Nikolas Straehle , Jens S. Buchner , Lars Mikelsons

Rehearsal approaches in class incremental learning (CIL) suffer from decision boundary overfitting to new classes, which is mainly caused by two factors: insufficiency of old classes data for knowledge distillation and imbalanced data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Kunchi Li , Jun Wan , Shan Yu

The ability to accurately predict and simulate human driving behavior is critical for the development of intelligent transportation systems. Traditional modeling methods have employed simple parametric models and behavioral cloning. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Alex Kuefler , Jeremy Morton , Tim Wheeler , Mykel Kochenderfer

Imitation learning (IL) is a frequently used approach for data-efficient policy learning. Many IL methods, such as Dataset Aggregation (DAgger), combat challenges like distributional shift by interacting with oracular experts.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Mandy Xie , Anqi Li , Karl Van Wyk , Frank Dellaert , Byron Boots , Nathan Ratliff

Recent developments in multi-agent imitation learning have shown promising results for modeling the behavior of human drivers. However, it is challenging to capture emergent traffic behaviors that are observed in real-world datasets. Such…

Imitation learning (IL) enables robots to acquire skills quickly by transferring expert knowledge, which is widely adopted in reinforcement learning (RL) to initialize exploration. However, in long-horizon motion planning tasks, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sha Luo , Hamidreza Kasaei , Lambert Schomaker

Imitation learning aims to solve the problem of defining reward functions in real-world decision-making tasks. The current popular approach is the Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) framework, which matches expert state-action occupancy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Bingzheng Wang , Guoqiang Wu , Teng Pang , Yan Zhang , Yilong Yin

We consider the problem of Imitation Learning (IL) by actively querying noisy expert for feedback. While imitation learning has been empirically successful, much of prior work assumes access to noiseless expert feedback which is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Ayush Sekhari , Karthik Sridharan , Wen Sun , Runzhe Wu

Adversarial imitation learning (AIL) has become a popular alternative to supervised imitation learning that reduces the distribution shift suffered by the latter. However, AIL requires effective exploration during an online reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Trevor Ablett , Bryan Chan , Jonathan Kelly

Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) methods, while effective in settings with limited expert demonstrations, are often considered unstable. These approaches typically decompose into two components: Density Ratio (DR) estimation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Shashank Reddy Chirra , Jayden Teoh , Praveen Paruchuri , Pradeep Varakantham

Sample efficient learning of manipulation skills poses a major challenge in robotics. While recent approaches demonstrate impressive advances in the type of task that can be addressed and the sensing modalities that can be incorporated,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Adrian Röfer , Iman Nematollahi , Tim Welschehold , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

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

Imitation learning has been a trend recently, yet training a generalist agent across multiple tasks still requires large-scale expert demonstrations, which are costly and labor-intensive to collect. To address the challenge of limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yifan Ye , Jun Cen , Jing Chen , Zhihe Lu

Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a powerful framework for decision-making, but its application in practice often requires a carefully designed reward function. Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) sheds light on automatic policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Kaifeng Zhang , Rui Zhao , Ziming Zhang , Yang Gao

Estimating statistical uncertainties allows autonomous agents to communicate their confidence during task execution and is important for applications in safety-critical domains such as autonomous driving. In this work, we present the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Yuchen Cui , David Isele , Scott Niekum , Kikuo Fujimura

Behavior cloning (BC) is often practical for robot learning because it allows a policy to be trained offline without rewards, by supervised learning on expert demonstrations. However, BC does not effectively leverage what we will refer to…

Adversarial imitation learning (AIL) achieves high-quality imitation by mitigating compounding errors in behavioral cloning (BC), but often exhibits training instability due to adversarial optimization. To avoid this issue, a class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Tian Xu , Chenyang Wang , Xiaochen Zhai , Ziniu Li , Yi-Chen Li , Yang Yu

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

Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) allows the agent to reproduce expert behavior with low-dimensional states and actions. However, challenges arise in handling visual states due to their less distinguishable representation compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yunke Wang , Linwei Tao , Bo Du , Yutian Lin , Chang Xu

In few-shot imitation learning (FSIL), using behavioral cloning (BC) to solve unseen tasks with few expert demonstrations becomes a popular research direction. The following capabilities are essential in robotics applications: (1) Behaving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jia-Fong Yeh , Chi-Ming Chung , Hung-Ting Su , Yi-Ting Chen , Winston H. Hsu