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Offline reinforcement learning (RL) tasks require the agent to learn from a pre-collected dataset with no further interactions with the environment. Despite the potential to surpass the behavioral policies, RL-based methods are generally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Minghuan Liu , Hanye Zhao , Zhengyu Yang , Jian Shen , Weinan Zhang , Li Zhao , Tie-Yan Liu

Interactive imitation learning is an efficient, model-free method through which a robot can learn a task by repetitively iterating an execution of a learning policy and a data collection by querying human demonstrations. However, deploying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Hanbit Oh , Takamitsu Matsubara

Learning to imitate expert behavior from demonstrations can be challenging, especially in environments with high-dimensional, continuous observations and unknown dynamics. Supervised learning methods based on behavioral cloning (BC) suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Siddharth Reddy , Anca D. Dragan , Sergey Levine

Improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) typically relies either on the model's ability to sample a correct solution to be reinforced or on the existence of a stronger model able to solve the problem. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ethan Mendes , Jungsoo Park , Alan Ritter

In many settings, it is desirable to learn decision-making and control policies through learning or bootstrapping from expert demonstrations. The most common approaches under this Imitation Learning (IL) framework are Behavioural Cloning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour , Richard Zemel , Shixiang Gu

Standard imitation learning can fail when the expert demonstrators have different sensory inputs than the imitating agent. This is because partial observability gives rise to hidden confounders in the causal graph. In previous work, to work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Risto Vuorio , Pim de Haan , Johann Brehmer , Hanno Ackermann , Daniel Dijkman , Taco Cohen

Imitation learning aims to learn a policy from observing expert demonstrations without access to reward signals from environments. Generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) formulates imitation learning as adversarial learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Chun-Mao Lai , Hsiang-Chun Wang , Ping-Chun Hsieh , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min-Hung Chen , Shao-Hua Sun

Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) addresses the problem of sequential decision-making by learning optimal policy through pre-collected data, without interacting with the environment. As yet, it has remained somewhat impractical, because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Maksim Bobrin , Nazar Buzun , Dmitrii Krylov , Dmitry V. Dylov

This paper presents a novel satellite attitude control framework that integrates Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) reinforcement learning with Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) to achieve robust performance under various unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Zhizhuo Zhang , Hao Peng , Xiaoli Bai

Achieving carbon neutrality within industrial operations has become increasingly imperative for sustainable development. It is both a significant challenge and a key opportunity for operational optimization in industry 4.0. In recent years,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Yuyang Ye , Lu-An Tang , Haoyu Wang , Runlong Yu , Wenchao Yu , Erhu He , Haifeng Chen , Hui Xiong

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

In robotic manipulation, acquiring samples is extremely expensive because it often requires interacting with the real world. Traditional image-level data augmentation has shown the potential to improve sample efficiency in various machine…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Mingxi Jia , Dian Wang , Guanang Su , David Klee , Xupeng Zhu , Robin Walters , Robert Platt

We focus on the problem of imitation learning from visual observations, where the learning agent has access to videos of experts as its sole learning source. The challenges of this framework include the absence of expert actions and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Vittorio Giammarino , James Queeney , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

Conditional imitation learning (CIL) trains deep neural networks, in an end-to-end manner, to mimic human driving. This approach has demonstrated suitable vehicle control when following roads, avoiding obstacles, or taking specific turns at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Hesham M. Eraqi , Mohamed N. Moustafa , Jens Honer

Post-training of flow matching models-aligning the output distribution with a high-quality target-is mathematically equivalent to imitation learning. While Supervised Fine-Tuning mimics expert demonstrations effectively, it cannot correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yeyao Ma , Chen Li , Xiaosong Zhang , Han Hu , Weidi Xie

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

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

Bayesian inference over the reward presents an ideal solution to the ill-posed nature of the inverse reinforcement learning problem. Unfortunately current methods generally do not scale well beyond the small tabular setting due to the need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Alex J. Chan , Mihaela van der Schaar

In-context imitation learning allows robots to acquire skills from demonstrations, yet one-shot trajectory generation remains fragile under environmental variation. We propose SAIL, a framework that reframes robot imitation as an iterative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Makoto Sato , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yujin Tang , So Kuroki

Imitation learning is the task of replicating expert policy from demonstrations, without access to a reward function. This task becomes particularly challenging when the expert exhibits a mixture of behaviors. Prior work has introduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Arash Vahabpour , Tianyi Wang , Qiujing Lu , Omead Pooladzandi , Vwani Roychowdhury