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Imitation Learning (IL) is an appealing approach to learn desirable autonomous behavior. However, directing IL to achieve arbitrary goals is difficult. In contrast, planning-based algorithms use dynamics models and reward functions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Nicholas Rhinehart , Rowan McAllister , Sergey Levine

Imitation learning by behavioral cloning is a prevalent method that has achieved some success in vision-based autonomous driving. The basic idea behind behavioral cloning is to have the neural network learn from observing a human expert's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Yuying Chen , Congcong Liu , Lei Tai , Ming Liu , Bertram E. Shi

Imitation learning stands at a crossroads: despite decades of progress, current imitation learning agents remain sophisticated memorisation machines, excelling at replay but failing when contexts shift or goals evolve. This paper argues…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nathan Gavenski , Felipe Meneguzzi , Odinaldo Rodrigues

In this paper, we discuss a framework for teaching bimanual manipulation tasks by imitation. To this end, we present a system and algorithms for learning compliant and contact-rich robot behavior from human demonstrations. The presented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Simon Stepputtis , Maryam Bandari , Stefan Schaal , Heni Ben Amor

Model compression becomes a recent trend due to the requirement of deploying neural networks on embedded and mobile devices. Hence, both accuracy and efficiency are of critical importance. To explore a balance between them, a knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Zhiyuan Wu , Hong Qi , Yu Jiang , Minghao Zhao , Chupeng Cui , Zongmin Yang , Xinhui Xue

Imitation learning algorithms can be used to learn a policy from expert demonstrations without access to a reward signal. However, most existing approaches are not applicable in multi-agent settings due to the existence of multiple (Nash)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jiaming Song , Hongyu Ren , Dorsa Sadigh , Stefano Ermon

We present a learning-based planner that aims to robustly drive a vehicle by mimicking human drivers' driving behavior. We leverage a mid-to-mid approach that allows us to manipulate the input to our imitation learning network freely. With…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Jinyun Zhou , Rui Wang , Xu Liu , Yifei Jiang , Shu Jiang , Jiaming Tao , Jinghao Miao , Shiyu Song

A massive number of well-trained deep networks have been released by developers online. These networks may focus on different tasks and in many cases are optimized for different datasets. In this paper, we study how to exploit such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Chengchao Shen , Mengqi Xue , Xinchao Wang , Jie Song , Li Sun , Mingli Song

This paper presents a novel framework for automatic learning of complex strategies in human decision making. The task that we are interested in is to better facilitate long term planning for complex, multi-step events. We observe temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Tharindu Fernando , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Imitation learning has traditionally been applied to learn a single task from demonstrations thereof. The requirement of structured and isolated demonstrations limits the scalability of imitation learning approaches as they are difficult to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Karol Hausman , Yevgen Chebotar , Stefan Schaal , Gaurav Sukhatme , Joseph Lim

Active inference is a mathematical framework for understanding how agents (biological or artificial) interact with their environments, enabling continual adaptation and decision-making. It combines Bayesian inference and free energy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Rithvik Prakki

We consider active learning under incentive compatibility constraints. The main application of our results is to economic experiments, in which a learner seeks to infer the parameters of a subject's preferences: for example their attitudes…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Federico Echenique , Siddharth Prasad

Imitation learning is a central problem in reinforcement learning where the goal is to learn a policy that mimics the expert's behavior. In practice, it is often challenging to learn the expert policy from a limited number of demonstrations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Heyang Zhao , Xingrui Yu , David M. Bossens , Ivor W. Tsang , Quanquan Gu

We present a method for active inference with partial observations in stochastic systems through incentive design, also known as the leader-follower game. Consider a leader agent who aims to infer a follower agent's type given a finite set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Xinyi Wei , Chongyang Shi , Shuo Han , Ahmed H. Hemida , Charles A. Kamhoua , Jie Fu

Amortized inference is the task of training a parametric model, such as a neural network, to approximate a distribution with a given unnormalized density where exact sampling is intractable. When sampling is implemented as a sequential…

Active inference is a formal approach to study cognition based on the notion that adaptive agents can be seen as engaging in a process of approximate Bayesian inference, via the minimisation of variational and expected free energies.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Filippo Torresan , Keisuke Suzuki , Ryota Kanai , Manuel Baltieri

We build a theoretical framework for designing and understanding practical meta-learning methods that integrates sophisticated formalizations of task-similarity with the extensive literature on online convex optimization and sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mikhail Khodak , Maria-Florina Balcan , Ameet Talwalkar

Acquiring complex behaviors is essential for artificially intelligent agents, yet learning these behaviors in high-dimensional settings poses a significant challenge due to the vast search space. Traditional reinforcement learning (RL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Mert Albaba , Sammy Christen , Thomas Langarek , Christoph Gebhardt , Otmar Hilliges , Michael J. Black

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

Although reinforcement learning methods offer a powerful framework for automatic skill acquisition, for practical learning-based control problems in domains such as robotics, imitation learning often provides a more convenient and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jianlan Luo , Perry Dong , Yuexiang Zhai , Yi Ma , Sergey Levine