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Imitation learning demonstrates remarkable performance in various domains. However, imitation learning is also constrained by many prerequisites. The research community has done intensive research to alleviate these constraints, such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Boyuan Zheng , Jianlong Zhou , Fang Chen

We introduce a new algorithm named WGAN, an alternative to traditional GAN training. In this new model, we show that we can improve the stability of learning, get rid of problems like mode collapse, and provide meaningful learning curves…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-08 Martin Arjovsky , Soumith Chintala , Léon Bottou

We introduce Primal-Dual Wasserstein GAN, a new learning algorithm for building latent variable models of the data distribution based on the primal and the dual formulations of the optimal transport (OT) problem. We utilize the primal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-25 Mevlana Gemici , Zeynep Akata , Max Welling

Imitation learning trains a policy from expert demonstrations. Imitation learning approaches have been designed from various principles, such as behavioral cloning via supervised learning, apprenticeship learning via inverse reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Tian Xu , Ziniu Li , Yang Yu

We seek to align agent policy with human expert behavior in a reinforcement learning (RL) setting, without any prior knowledge about dynamics, reward function, and unsafe states. There is a human expert knowing the rewards and unsafe states…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Daniel Hsu

A major challenge in Reinforcement Learning (RL) is the difficulty of learning an optimal policy from sparse rewards. Prior works enhance online RL with conventional Imitation Learning (IL) via a handcrafted auxiliary objective, at the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Shilong Deng , Zetao Zheng , Hongcai He , Paul Weng , Jie Shao

Wasserstein Discriminant Analysis (WDA) is a new supervised method that can improve classification of high-dimensional data by computing a suitable linear map onto a lower dimensional subspace. Following the blueprint of classical Linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-21 Rémi Flamary , Marco Cuturi , Nicolas Courty , Alain Rakotomamonjy

When researchers develop new econometric methods it is common practice to compare the performance of the new methods to those of existing methods in Monte Carlo studies. The credibility of such Monte Carlo studies is often limited because…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-07-23 Susan Athey , Guido Imbens , Jonas Metzger , Evan Munro

We present Wasserstein introspective neural networks (WINN) that are both a generator and a discriminator within a single model. WINN provides a significant improvement over the recent introspective neural networks (INN) method by enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Kwonjoon Lee , Weijian Xu , Fan Fan , Zhuowen Tu

Designing a safe and human-like decision-making system for an autonomous vehicle is a challenging task. Generative imitation learning is one possible approach for automating policy-building by leveraging both real-world and simulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Arec Jamgochian , Etienne Buehrle , Johannes Fischer , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

The Wasserstein distance received a lot of attention recently in the community of machine learning, especially for its principled way of comparing distributions. It has found numerous applications in several hard problems, such as domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-23 Nicolas Courty , Rémi Flamary , Mélanie Ducoffe

Robust Reinforcement Learning aims to find the optimal policy with some extent of robustness to environmental dynamics. Existing learning algorithms usually enable the robustness through disturbing the current state or simulating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Linfang Hou , Liang Pang , Xin Hong , Yanyan Lan , Zhiming Ma , Dawei Yin

Learning complex policies with Reinforcement Learning (RL) is often hindered by instability and slow convergence, a problem exacerbated by the difficulty of reward engineering. Imitation Learning (IL) from expert demonstrations bypasses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sayambhu Sen , Shalabh Bhatnagar

Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (WDRO) optimizes against worst-case distributional shifts within a specified uncertainty set, leading to enhanced generalization on unseen adversarial examples, compared to standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Shuang Liu , Yihan Wang , Yifan Zhu , Yibo Miao , Xiao-Shan Gao

We propose the Wasserstein Auto-Encoder (WAE)---a new algorithm for building a generative model of the data distribution. WAE minimizes a penalized form of the Wasserstein distance between the model distribution and the target distribution,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-06 Ilya Tolstikhin , Olivier Bousquet , Sylvain Gelly , Bernhard Schoelkopf

Mutual information maximization has emerged as a powerful learning objective for unsupervised representation learning obtaining state-of-the-art performance in applications such as object recognition, speech recognition, and reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Sherjil Ozair , Corey Lynch , Yoshua Bengio , Aaron van den Oord , Sergey Levine , Pierre Sermanet

Personalized recommender systems are playing an increasingly important role as more content and services become available and users struggle to identify what might interest them. Although matrix factorization and deep learning based methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Chen Ma , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Xue Liu , Mark Coates

Recovering reward function from expert demonstrations is a fundamental problem in reinforcement learning. The recovered reward function captures the motivation of the expert. Agents can imitate experts by following these reward functions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Fan-Ming Luo , Xingchen Cao , Rong-Jun Qin , Yang Yu

In inverse problems, many conditional generative models approximate the posterior measure by minimizing a distance between the joint measure and its learned approximation. While this approach also controls the distance between the posterior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jannis Chemseddine , Paul Hagemann , Gabriele Steidl , Christian Wald

As a prominent category of imitation learning methods, adversarial imitation learning (AIL) has garnered significant practical success powered by neural network approximation. However, existing theoretical studies on AIL are primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Tian Xu , Zhilong Zhang , Ruishuo Chen , Yihao Sun , Yang Yu