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This paper provides the first expert sample complexity characterization for learning a Nash equilibrium from expert data in Markov Games. We show that a new quantity named the single policy deviation concentrability coefficient is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Till Freihaut , Luca Viano , Volkan Cevher , Matthieu Geist , Giorgia Ramponi

In this work, we present the first theoretical analysis of multi-agent imitation learning (MAIL) in linear Markov games where both the transition dynamics and each agent's reward function are linear in some given features. We demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Luca Viano , Till Freihaut , Emanuele Nevali , Volkan Cevher , Matthieu Geist , Giorgia Ramponi

We study online adversarial imitation learning (AIL), where an agent learns from offline expert demonstrations and interacts with the environment online without access to rewards. Despite strong empirical results, the benefits of online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shangzhe Li , Dongruo Zhou , Weitong Zhang

Imitation learning methods seek to learn from an expert either through behavioral cloning (BC) of the policy or inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) of the reward. Such methods enable agents to learn complex tasks from humans that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Joe Watson , Sandy H. Huang , Nicolas Heess

Although Behavioral Cloning (BC) in theory suffers compounding errors, its scalability and simplicity still makes it an attractive imitation learning algorithm. In contrast, imitation approaches with adversarial training typically does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Jeongwon Park , Lin Yang

In sequential decision-making environments, the primary approaches for training agents are Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Imitation Learning (IL). Unlike RL, which relies on modeling a reward function, IL leverages expert demonstrations,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jonas Nüßlein , Maximilian Zorn , Philipp Altmann , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

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 is a class of promising policy learning algorithms that is free from many practical issues with reinforcement learning, such as the reward design issue and the exploration hardness. However, the current imitation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Zhao-Heng Yin , Weirui Ye , Qifeng Chen , Yang Gao

The current landscape of multi-agent expert imitation is broadly dominated by two families of algorithms - Behavioral Cloning (BC) and Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL). BC approaches suffer from compounding errors, as they ignore the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Akshay Dharmavaram , Tejus Gupta , Jiachen Li , Katia P. Sycara

Agents that interact with other agents often do not know a priori what the other agents' strategies are, but have to maximise their own online return while interacting with and learning about others. The optimal adaptive behaviour under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Luisa Zintgraf , Sam Devlin , Kamil Ciosek , Shimon Whiteson , Katja Hofmann

Imitation learning is the problem of recovering an expert policy without access to a reward signal. Behavior cloning and GAIL are two widely used methods for performing imitation learning. Behavior cloning converges in a few iterations but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Rohit Jena , Changliu Liu , Katia Sycara

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

Interactions with either environments or expert policies during training are needed for most of the current imitation learning (IL) algorithms. For IL problems with no interactions, a typical approach is Behavior Cloning (BC). However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-06 HaoChih Lin , Baopu Li , Xin Zhou , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

Behavioral cloning (BC) bears a high potential for safe and direct transfer of human skills to robots. However, demonstrations performed by human operators often contain noise or imperfect behaviors that can affect the efficiency of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Wendyam Eric Lionel Ilboudo , Taisuke Kobayashi , Kenji Sugimoto

Learning robust driving policies from large-scale, real-world datasets is a central challenge in autonomous driving, as online data collection is often unsafe and impractical. While Behavioral Cloning (BC) offers a straightforward approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Antonio Guillen-Perez

This work investigates multi-objective imitation learning: the problem of recovering policies that lie on the Pareto front given demonstrations from multiple Pareto-optimal experts in a Multi-Objective Markov Decision Process (MOMDP).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ziyad Sheebaelhamd , Luca Viano , Volkan Cevher , Claire Vernade

Imitation learning (IL) algorithms use expert demonstrations to learn a specific task. Most of the existing approaches assume that all expert demonstrations are reliable and trustworthy, but what if there exist some adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Mostafa Hussein , Brendan Crowe , Marek Petrik , Momotaz Begum

Imitation learning techniques have been shown to be highly effective in real-world control scenarios, such as robotics. However, these approaches not only suffer from compounding error issues but also require human experts to provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yigit Korkmaz , Erdem Bıyık

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 is an imitation learning technique that teaches an agent how to behave through expert demonstrations. Recent approaches use self-supervision of fully-observable unlabeled snapshots of the states to decode state-pairs into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Nathan Gavenski , Juarez Monteiro , Roger Granada , Felipe Meneguzzi , Rodrigo C. Barros
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