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Robots must understand their environment from raw sensory inputs and reason about the consequences of their actions in it to solve complex tasks. Behavior Cloning (BC) leverages task-specific human demonstrations to learn this knowledge as…

The ability to discover optimal behaviour from fixed data sets has the potential to transfer the successes of reinforcement learning (RL) to domains where data collection is acutely problematic. In this offline setting, a key challenge is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Alex Beeson , Giovanni Montana

Behavior Cloning (BC) methods are effective at learning complex manipulation tasks. However, they are prone to spurious correlation - expressive models may focus on distractors that are irrelevant to action prediction - and are thus fragile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Vaibhav Saxena , Yotto Koga , Danfei Xu

Language-conditioned manipulation facilitates human-robot interaction via behavioral cloning (BC), which learns control policies from human demonstrations and serves as a cornerstone of embodied AI. Overcoming compounding errors in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Xiuxiu Qi , Yu Yang , Jiannong Cao , Luyao Bai , Chongshan Fan , Chengtai Cao , Hongpeng Wang

The tremendous success of behavior cloning (BC) in robotic manipulation has been largely confined to tasks where demonstrations can be effectively collected through human teleoperation. However, demonstrations for contact-rich manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Huaijiang Zhu , Tong Zhao , Xinpei Ni , Jiuguang Wang , Kuan Fang , Ludovic Righetti , Tao Pang

Reinforcement learning (RL) for motion planning of multi-degree-of-freedom robots still suffers from low efficiency in terms of slow training speed and poor generalizability. In this paper, we propose a novel RL-based robot motion planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zengjie Zhang , Jayden Hong , Amir Soufi Enayati , Homayoun Najjaran

The creation of human-like humanoid robots is hindered by a fundamental fragmentation: data processing and learning algorithms are rarely universal across different robot morphologies. This paper introduces the Generalized Behavior Cloning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yifei Yao , Chengyuan Luo , Jiaheng Du , Wentao He , Jun-Guo Lu

Policy constraint methods in offline reinforcement learning employ additional regularization techniques to constrain the discrepancy between the learned policy and the offline dataset. However, these methods tend to result in overly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shirong Liu , Chenjia Bai , Zixian Guo , Hao Zhang , Gaurav Sharma , Yang Liu

Behavioral cloning (BC) can recover a good policy from abundant expert data, but may fail when expert data is insufficient. This paper considers a situation where, besides the small amount of expert data, a supplementary dataset is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Ziniu Li , Tian Xu , Yang Yu , Zhi-Quan Luo

Behavior cloning facilitates the learning of dexterous manipulation skills, yet the complexity of surgical environments, the difficulty and expense of obtaining patient data, and robot calibration errors present unique challenges for…

Model information can be used to predict future trajectories, so it has huge potential to avoid dangerous region when implementing reinforcement learning (RL) on real-world tasks, like autonomous driving. However, existing studies mostly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Haitong Ma , Jianyu Chen , Shengbo Eben Li , Ziyu Lin , Yang Guan , Yangang Ren , Sifa Zheng

We propose a theoretical framework for studying behavior cloning of complex expert demonstrations using generative modeling. Our framework invokes low-level controllers - either learned or implicit in position-command control - to stabilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Adam Block , Ali Jadbabaie , Daniel Pfrommer , Max Simchowitz , Russ Tedrake

Automating the assembly of wire harnesses is challenging in automotive, electrical cabinet, and aircraft production, particularly due to deformable cables and a high variance in connector geometries. In addition, connectors must be inserted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Andreas Kernbach , Daniel Bargmann , Werner Kraus , Marco F. Huber

Imitation learning (IL) aims to mimic the behavior of an expert in a sequential decision making task by learning from demonstrations, and has been widely applied to robotics, autonomous driving, and autoregressive text generation. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Dylan J. Foster , Adam Block , Dipendra Misra

Behavioral cloning, or more broadly, learning from demonstrations (LfD) is a priomising direction for robot policy learning in complex scenarios. Albeit being straightforward to implement and data-efficient, behavioral cloning has its own…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Carl Qi , Edward Sun , Harry Zhang

Embodied AI represents a paradigm in AI research where artificial agents are situated within and interact with physical or virtual environments. Despite the recent progress in Embodied AI, it is still very challenging to learn the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xuetao Li , Fang Gao , Jun Yu , Shaodong Li , Feng Shuang

Learning control policies offline from pre-recorded datasets is a promising avenue for solving challenging real-world problems. However, available datasets are typically of mixed quality, with a limited number of the trajectories that we…

Behavior cloning is a fundamental paradigm in machine learning, enabling policy learning from expert demonstrations across robotics, autonomous driving, and generative models. Autoregressive models like transformer have proven remarkably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Haoqun Cao , Tengyang Xie

Humans often learn how to perform tasks via imitation: they observe others perform a task, and then very quickly infer the appropriate actions to take based on their observations. While extending this paradigm to autonomous agents is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Faraz Torabi , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

We propose an imitation learning system for autonomous driving in urban traffic with interactions. We train a Behavioral Cloning~(BC) policy to imitate driving behavior collected from the real urban traffic, and apply the data aggregation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Zhao-Heng Yin , Chenran Li , Liting Sun , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan