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Imitation Learning (IL) is a popular paradigm for training agents to achieve complicated goals by leveraging expert behavior, rather than dealing with the hardships of designing a correct reward function. With the environment modeled as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-28 Tanmay Gangwani , Jian Peng

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can acquire effective policies by utilizing previously collected experience, without any online interaction. It is widely understood that offline RL is able to extract good policies even from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Aviral Kumar , Joey Hong , Anikait Singh , Sergey Levine

Incremental Learning (IL) is useful when artificial systems need to deal with streams of data and do not have access to all data at all times. The most challenging setting requires a constant complexity of the deep model and an incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Eden Belouadah , Adrian Popescu , Ioannis Kanellos

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

In Apprenticeship Learning (AL), we are given a Markov Decision Process (MDP) without access to the cost function. Instead, we observe trajectories sampled by an expert that acts according to some policy. The goal is to find a policy that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Lior Shani , Tom Zahavy , Shie Mannor

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to adapt to emerging new classes without forgetting old ones. Traditional CIL models are trained from scratch to continually acquire knowledge as data evolves. Recently, pre-training has achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Da-Wei Zhou , Zi-Wen Cai , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Ziwei Liu

Animals are able to imitate each others' behavior, despite their difference in biomechanics. In contrast, imitating the other similar robots is a much more challenging task in robotics. This problem is called cross domain imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhao-Heng Yin , Lingfeng Sun , Hengbo Ma , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wu-Jun Li

We close open theoretical gaps in Multi-Agent Imitation Learning (MAIL) by characterizing the limits of non-interactive MAIL and presenting the first interactive algorithm with near-optimal sample complexity. In the non-interactive setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Till Freihaut , Luca Viano , Emanuele Nevali , Volkan Cevher , Matthieu Geist , Giorgia Ramponi

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is often used in medical imaging to classify high-resolution 2D images by processing patches or classify 3D volumes by processing slices. However, conventional MIL approaches treat instances separately,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ethan Harvey , Dennis Johan Loevlie , Michael C. Hughes

Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) is one of the most popular and widely adopted meta-learning algorithms, achieving remarkable success in various learning problems. Yet, with the unique design of nested inner-loop and outer-loop updates,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Chia-Hsiang Kao , Wei-Chen Chiu , Pin-Yu Chen

Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) is a class of popular state-of-the-art Imitation Learning algorithms commonly used in robotics. In AIL, an artificial adversary's misclassification is used as a reward signal that is optimized by any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Ankur Deka , Changliu Liu , Katia Sycara

RGB-based imitation learning requires many demonstrations to generalize to unseen objects or scenes, motivating research into intermediate representations to improve generalization for robotic manipulation. Visual foundation models enable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Thomas Lips , Marco Moletta , Michael C. Welle , Danica Kragic , Francis wyffels

In this paper, we study the problem of enabling a vision-based robotic manipulation system to generalize to novel tasks, a long-standing challenge in robot learning. We approach the challenge from an imitation learning perspective, aiming…

For adversarial imitation learning algorithms (AILs), no true rewards are obtained from the environment for learning the strategy. However, the pseudo rewards based on the output of the discriminator are still required. Given the implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Yawei Wang , Xiu Li

Imitation learning (IL) aims to learn an optimal policy from demonstrations. However, such demonstrations are often imperfect since collecting optimal ones is costly. To effectively learn from imperfect demonstrations, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Yueh-Hua Wu , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Han Bao , Voot Tangkaratt , Masashi Sugiyama

The capacity to generalize beyond the range of training data is a pivotal challenge, often synonymous with a model's utility and robustness. This study investigates the comparative abilities of traditional machine learning (ML) models and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yong Yi Bay , Kathleen A. Yearick

Due to its empirical success in few-shot classification and reinforcement learning, meta-learning has recently received significant interest. Meta-learning methods leverage data from previous tasks to learn a new task in a sample-efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Oğuz Kaan Yüksel , Etienne Boursier , Nicolas Flammarion

While goal-conditioned behavior cloning (GCBC) methods can perform well on in-distribution training tasks, they do not necessarily generalize zero-shot to tasks that require conditioning on novel state-goal pairs, i.e. combinatorial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Daniel Lawson , Adriana Hugessen , Charlotte Cloutier , Glen Berseth , Khimya Khetarpal

Machine learning (ML) formalizes the problem of getting computers to learn from experience as optimization of performance according to some metric(s) on a set of data examples. This is in contrast to requiring behaviour specified in advance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Tegan Maharaj

Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) is a powerful set of techniques for imitation learning that aims to learn a reward function that rationalizes expert demonstrations. Unfortunately, traditional IRL methods suffer from a computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Gokul Swamy , Sanjiban Choudhury , J. Andrew Bagnell , Zhiwei Steven Wu