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The performance of imitation learning is typically upper-bounded by the performance of the demonstrator. While recent empirical results demonstrate that ranked demonstrations allow for better-than-demonstrator performance, preferences over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Daniel S. Brown , Wonjoon Goo , Scott Niekum

Self-imitation learning is a Reinforcement Learning (RL) method that encourages actions whose returns were higher than expected, which helps in hard exploration and sparse reward problems. It was shown to improve the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Johan Ferret , Olivier Pietquin , Matthieu Geist

Evolutionary Computation (EC) has been shown to be able to quickly train Deep Artificial Neural Networks (DNNs) to solve Reinforcement Learning (RL) problems. While a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is well-suited for exploiting reward functions…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Eyal Segal , Moshe Sipper

Generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) has attracted increasing attention in the field of robot learning. It enables robots to learn a policy to achieve a task demonstrated by an expert while simultaneously estimating the reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Kyoichiro Kobayashi , Takato Horii , Ryo Iwaki , Yukie Nagai , Minoru Asada

Genetic algorithms have been widely used in many practical optimization problems. Inspired by natural selection, operators, including mutation, crossover and selection, provide effective heuristics for search and black-box optimization.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-14 Tanmay Gangwani , Jian Peng

Sparse reward is one of the biggest challenges in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper, we propose a novel method called Generative Exploration and Exploitation (GENE) to overcome sparse reward. GENE automatically generates start…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Jiechuan Jiang , Zongqing Lu

Attribute extrapolation in sample generation is challenging for deep neural networks operating beyond the training distribution. We formulate a new task for extrapolation in sequence generation, focusing on natural language and proteins,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Alvin Chan , Ali Madani , Ben Krause , Nikhil Naik

We study risk-sensitive imitation learning where the agent's goal is to perform at least as well as the expert in terms of a risk profile. We first formulate our risk-sensitive imitation learning setting. We consider the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Jonathan Lacotte , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Yinlam Chow , Marco Pavone

Analyzing the handwriting generation process is an important issue and has been tackled by various generation models, such as kinematics based models and stochastic models. In this study, we use a reinforcement learning (RL) framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Keisuke Kanda , Brian Kenji Iwana , Seiichi Uchida

We report a deep generative model for regression tasks in materials informatics. The model is introduced as a component of a data imputer, and predicts more than 20 diverse experimental properties of organic molecules. The imputer is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Kan Hatakeyama-Sato , Kenichi Oyaizu

While reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising performance, its sample complexity continues to be a substantial hurdle, restricting its broader application across a variety of domains. Imitation learning (IL) utilizes oracles to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xuefeng Liu , Takuma Yoneda , Rick L. Stevens , Matthew R. Walter , Yuxin Chen

Neural networks are prone to catastrophic forgetting when trained incrementally on different tasks. Popular incremental learning methods mitigate such forgetting by retaining a subset of previously seen samples and replaying them during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Kevin Thandiackal , Tiziano Portenier , Andrea Giovannini , Maria Gabrani , Orcun Goksel

In generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL), the agent aims to learn a policy from an expert demonstration so that its performance cannot be discriminated from the expert policy on a certain predefined reward set. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zhihan Liu , Yufeng Zhang , Zuyue Fu , Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang

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

Imitation learning trains a policy by mimicking expert demonstrations. Various imitation methods were proposed and empirically evaluated, meanwhile, their theoretical understanding needs further studies. In this paper, we firstly analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Tian Xu , Ziniu Li , Yang Yu

The search for interpretable reinforcement learning policies is of high academic and industrial interest. Especially for industrial systems, domain experts are more likely to deploy autonomously learned controllers if they are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Daniel Hein , Steffen Udluft , Thomas A. Runkler

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

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved great successes in many simulated tasks. The sample inefficiency problem makes applying traditional DRL methods to real-world robots a great challenge. Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Jie Huang , Rongshun Juan , Randy Gomez , Keisuke Nakamura , Qixin Sha , Bo He , Guangliang Li

Developing agents that can perform challenging complex tasks is the goal of reinforcement learning. The model-free reinforcement learning has been considered as a feasible solution. However, the state of the art research has been to develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 MyungJae Shin , Joongheon Kim

Human beings are able to understand objectives and learn by simply observing others perform a task. Imitation learning methods aim to replicate such capabilities, however, they generally depend on access to a full set of optimal states and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Edoardo Cetin , Oya Celiktutan