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We consider a problem of learning the reward and policy from expert examples under unknown dynamics. Our proposed method builds on the framework of generative adversarial networks and introduces the empowerment-regularized maximum-entropy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Ahmed H. Qureshi , Byron Boots , Michael C. Yip

Imitation Learning (IL) is an effective learning paradigm exploiting the interactions between agents and environments. It does not require explicit reward signals and instead tries to recover desired policies using expert demonstrations. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yang Liu , Yongzhe Chang , Shilei Jiang , Xueqian Wang , Bin Liang , Bo Yuan

Imitation learning (IL) enables agents to acquire skills by observing and replicating the behavior of one or multiple experts. In recent years, advances in deep learning have significantly expanded the capabilities and scalability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Iason Chrysomallis , Georgios Chalkiadakis

Imitation learning aims to mimic the behavior of experts without explicit reward signals. Passive imitation learning methods which use static expert datasets typically suffer from compounding error, low sample efficiency, and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Xu-Hui Liu , Feng Xu , Xinyu Zhang , Tianyuan Liu , Shengyi Jiang , Ruifeng Chen , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

Simulation is an appealing option for validating the safety of autonomous vehicles. Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) has recently been shown to learn representative human driver models. These human driver models were learned…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Raunak P. Bhattacharyya , Derek J. Phillips , Blake Wulfe , Jeremy Morton , Alex Kuefler , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Self-imitation learning is a Reinforcement Learning (RL) method that encourages actions whose returns were higher than expected, which helps in hard exploration and sparse reward problems. It was shown to improve the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Johan Ferret , Olivier Pietquin , Matthieu Geist

Imitation Learning (IL) aims to discover a policy by minimizing the discrepancy between the agent's behavior and expert demonstrations. However, IL is susceptible to limitations imposed by noisy demonstrations from non-expert behaviors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Ye Yuan , Xin Li , Yong Heng , Leiji Zhang , MingZhong Wang

Imitation learning, which learns agent policy by mimicking expert demonstration, has shown promising results in many applications such as medical treatment regimes and self-driving vehicles. However, it remains a difficult task to interpret…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Tianxiang Zhao , Wenchao Yu , Suhang Wang , Lu Wang , Xiang Zhang , Yuncong Chen , Yanchi Liu , Wei Cheng , Haifeng Chen

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

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

Imitation learning (IL) from a state-based reinforcement learning (RL) policy is a common approach to overcome the curse of dimensionality in complex and high-dimensional observation spaces prevalent in robotics. This paper addresses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Meraj Mammadov , Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires , Johannes Andreas Stork

Dialogue systems play an increasingly important role in various aspects of our daily life. It is evident from recent research that dialogue systems trained on human conversation data are biased. In particular, they can produce responses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Haochen Liu , Wentao Wang , Yiqi Wang , Hui Liu , Zitao Liu , Jiliang Tang

Imitation learning (IL) provides a data-driven framework for approximating policies for large-scale combinatorial optimisation problems formulated as sequential decision problems (SDPs), where exact solution methods are computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Prakash Gawas , Antoine Legrain , Louis-Martin Rousseau

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

Natural language is perhaps the most flexible and intuitive way for humans to communicate tasks to a robot. Prior work in imitation learning typically requires each task be specified with a task id or goal image -- something that is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Corey Lynch , Pierre Sermanet

Knowledge-grounded dialogue generation aims to mitigate the issue of text degeneration by incorporating external knowledge to supplement the context. However, the model often fails to internalize this information into responses in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Chenxu Yang , Zheng Lin , Lanrui Wang , Chong Tian , Liang Pang , Jiangnan Li , Qirong Ho , Yanan Cao , Weiping Wang

Imitation learning trains a policy from expert demonstrations. Imitation learning approaches have been designed from various principles, such as behavioral cloning via supervised learning, apprenticeship learning via inverse reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Tian Xu , Ziniu Li , Yang Yu

The design of better automated dialogue evaluation metrics offers the potential of accelerate evaluation research on conversational AI. However, existing trainable dialogue evaluation models are generally restricted to classifiers trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Xiang Gao , Yizhe Zhang , Michel Galley , Bill Dolan

Generative model-based imitation learning methods have recently achieved strong results in learning high-complexity motor skills from human demonstrations. However, imitation learning of interactive policies that coordinate with humans in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Max M. Sun , Todd Murphey

Reinforcement learning methods have been used to compute dialog policies from language-based interaction experiences. Efficiency is of particular importance in dialog policy learning, because of the considerable cost of interacting with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Yan Cao , Keting Lu , Xiaoping Chen , Shiqi Zhang