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Recent years have witnessed many successful trials in the robot learning field. For contact-rich robotic tasks, it is challenging to learn coordinated motor skills by reinforcement learning. Imitation learning solves this problem by using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Linqi Ye , Jiayi Li , Yi Cheng , Xianhao Wang , Bin Liang , Yan Peng

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

Imitation Learning (IL) techniques aim to replicate human behaviors in specific tasks. While IL has gained prominence due to its effectiveness and efficiency, traditional methods often focus on datasets collected from experts to produce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Mathieu Petitbois , Rémy Portelas , Sylvain Lamprier , Ludovic Denoyer

Learning-based approaches, such as reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL), have indicated superiority over rule-based approaches in complex urban autonomous driving environments, showing great potential to make intelligent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Haochen Liu , Zhiyu Huang , Jingda Wu , Chen Lv

Although robotic imitation learning (RIL) is promising for embodied intelligent robots, existing RIL approaches rely on computationally intensive multi-model trajectory predictions, resulting in slow execution and limited real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jun Xie , Zhicheng Wang , Jianwei Tan , Huanxu Lin , Xiaoguang Ma

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

Humans are capable of learning a new behavior by observing others perform the skill. Robots can also implement this by imitation learning. Furthermore, if with external guidance, humans will master the new behavior more efficiently. So how…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Boyi Liu , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Imitation learning is the process by which one agent tries to learn how to perform a certain task using information generated by another, often more-expert agent performing that same task. Conventionally, the imitator has access to both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Faraz Torabi , Garrett Warnell , Peter Stone

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

Imitation learning is a popular approach for teaching motor skills to robots. However, most approaches focus on extracting policy parameters from execution traces alone (i.e., motion trajectories and perceptual data). No adequate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Simon Stepputtis , Joseph Campbell , Mariano Phielipp , Stefan Lee , Chitta Baral , Heni Ben Amor

Imitation learning trains control policies by mimicking pre-recorded expert demonstrations. In partially observable settings, imitation policies must rely on observation histories, but many seemingly paradoxical results show better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Chuan Wen , Jierui Lin , Jianing Qian , Yang Gao , Dinesh Jayaraman

Imitation Learning has provided a promising approach to learning complex robot behaviors from expert demonstrations. However, learned policies can make errors that lead to safety violations, which limits their deployment in safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Le Qiu , Yusuf Umut Ciftci , Somil Bansal

Most existing imitation learning approaches assume the demonstrations are drawn from experts who are optimal, but relaxing this assumption enables us to use a wider range of data. Standard imitation learning may learn a suboptimal policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Songyuan Zhang , Zhangjie Cao , Dorsa Sadigh , Yanan Sui

Continual semantic segmentation requires models to adapt to new domains or modalities without sacrificing performance on previously learned tasks. Expert-based learning, in which task-specific modules specialize in different domains, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Shishir Muralidhara , Didier Stricker , René Schuster

Model-based imitation learning (MBIL) is a popular reinforcement learning method that improves sample efficiency on high-dimension input sources, such as images and videos. Following the convention of MBIL research, existing algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shenghua Wan , Yucen Wang , Minghao Shao , Ruying Chen , De-Chuan Zhan

The ability to learn manipulation skills by watching videos of humans has the potential to unlock a new source of highly scalable data for robot learning. Here, we tackle prehensile manipulation, in which tasks involve grasping an object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Albert J. Zhai , Kuo-Hao Zeng , Jiasen Lu , Ali Farhadi , Shenlong Wang , Wei-Chiu Ma

Imitation learning is a proven method for creating a policy in the absence of rewards, by leveraging expert demonstrations. In this work, we apply imitation learning to conversation. In doing so, we recover a policy capable of talking to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Noah Kasmanoff , Rahul Zalkikar

We aim to enable robot to learn object manipulation by imitation. Given external observations of demonstrations on object manipulations, we believe that two underlying problems to address in learning by imitation is 1) segment a given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Zhen Zeng , Benjamin Kuipers

This paper presents a novel approach to imitation learning from observations, where an autoregressive mixture of experts model is deployed to fit the underlying policy. The parameters of the model are learned via a two-stage framework. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Renzi Wang , Flavia Sofia Acerbo , Tong Duy Son , Panagiotis Patrinos

Today's robots attempt to learn new tasks by imitating human examples. These robots watch the human complete the task, and then try to match the actions taken by the human expert. However, this standard approach to visual imitation learning…