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Imitation learning is a primary approach to improve the efficiency of reinforcement learning by exploiting the expert demonstrations. However, in many real scenarios, obtaining expert demonstrations could be extremely expensive or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Kun-Peng Ning , Hu Xu , Kun Zhu , Sheng-Jun Huang

We study reinforcement learning (RL) problems in which agents observe the reward or transition realizations at their current state before deciding which action to take. Such observations are available in many applications, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Nadav Merlis

Current model-based reinforcement learning methods struggle when operating from complex visual scenes due to their inability to prioritize task-relevant features. To mitigate this problem, we propose learning Task Informed Abstractions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Xiang Fu , Ge Yang , Pulkit Agrawal , Tommi Jaakkola

This paper presents a comprehensive overview of autotelic Reinforcement Learning (RL), emphasizing the role of intrinsic motivations in the open-ended formation of skill repertoires. We delineate the distinctions between knowledge-based and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Prakhar Srivastava , Jasmeet Singh

Reinforcement Learning (RL) can mitigate the causal confusion and distribution shift inherent to imitation learning (IL). However, applying RL to end-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) remains an open problem for its training difficulty,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhenjie Yang , Xiaosong Jia , Qifeng Li , Xue Yang , Maoqing Yao , Junchi Yan

Imitation learning (IL) has proven to be an effective method for learning good policies from expert demonstrations. Adversarial imitation learning (AIL), a subset of IL methods, is particularly promising, but its theoretical foundation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Tian Xu , Ziniu Li , Yang Yu , Zhi-Quan Luo

In offline reinforcement learning (RL), an RL agent learns to solve a task using only a fixed dataset of previously collected data. While offline RL has been successful in learning real-world robot control policies, it typically requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Nicholas E. Corrado , Yuxiao Qu , John U. Balis , Adam Labiosa , Josiah P. Hanna

Existing end-to-end autonomous driving methods typically rely on imitation learning (IL) but face a key challenge: the misalignment between open-loop training and closed-loop deployment. This misalignment often triggers driver-initiated…

In this paper, we continue our prior work on using imitation learning (IL) and model free reinforcement learning (RL) to learn driving policies for autonomous driving in urban scenarios, by introducing a model based RL method to drive the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Zhuo Xu , Jianyu Chen , Masayoshi Tomizuka

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

Reinforcement learning provides a powerful and general framework for decision making and control, but its application in practice is often hindered by the need for extensive feature and reward engineering. Deep reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Justin Fu , Katie Luo , Sergey Levine

Though impressive results have been achieved in visual captioning, the task of generating abstract stories from photo streams is still a little-tapped problem. Different from captions, stories have more expressive language styles and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Xin Wang , Wenhu Chen , Yuan-Fang Wang , William Yang Wang

In standard passive imitation learning, the goal is to learn a target policy by passively observing full execution trajectories of it. Unfortunately, generating such trajectories can require substantial expert effort and be impractical in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Kshitij Judah , Alan Fern , Thomas G. Dietterich

The goal of imitation learning is to mimic expert behavior from demonstrations, without access to an explicit reward signal. A popular class of approach infers the (unknown) reward function via inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) followed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Carl Qi , Pieter Abbeel , Aditya Grover

This paper proposes a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that enhances exploration by amplifying the imitation effect (AIE). This algorithm consists of self-imitation learning and random network distillation algorithms. We argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Gyeong Taek Lee , Chang Ouk Kim

A major bottleneck in imitation learning is the requirement of a large number of expert demonstrations, which can be expensive or inaccessible. Learning from supplementary demonstrations without strict quality requirements has emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jiangdong Fan , Hongcai He , Paul Weng , Hui Xu , Jie Shao

Compared to traditional imitation learning methods such as DAgger and DART, intervention-based imitation offers a more convenient and sample efficient data collection process to users. In this paper, we introduce Reinforced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Rom Parnichkun , Matthew N. Dailey , Atsushi Yamashita

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have been successfully applied to a range of challenging control tasks. However, these methods typically suffer from three core difficulties: temporal credit assignment with sparse rewards, lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Shauharda Khadka , Kagan Tumer

High-quality exploratory data analysis (EDA) is essential in the data science pipeline, but remains highly dependent on analysts' expertise and effort. While recent LLM-based approaches partially reduce this burden, they struggle to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yi Shan , Yixuan He , Zekai Shao , Kai Xu , Siming Chen

We present an adversarial active exploration for inverse dynamics model learning, a simple yet effective learning scheme that incentivizes exploration in an environment without any human intervention. Our framework consists of a deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Zhang-Wei Hong , Tsu-Jui Fu , Tzu-Yun Shann , Yi-Hsiang Chang , Chun-Yi Lee