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Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) learns an optimal policy, given some expert demonstrations, thus avoiding the need for the tedious process of specifying a suitable reward function. However, current methods are constrained by at least…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Pierre Le Pelletier de Woillemont , Rémi Labory , Vincent Corruble

Imitation learning targets deriving a mapping from states to actions, a.k.a. policy, from expert demonstrations. Existing methods for imitation learning typically require any actions in the demonstrations to be fully available, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Mingfei Sun , Xiaojuan Ma

Imitation learning (IL) enables agents to acquire skills directly from expert demonstrations, providing a compelling alternative to reinforcement learning. However, prior online IL approaches struggle with complex tasks characterized by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Shangzhe Li , Zhiao Huang , Hao Su

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

Model-based reinforcement learning (RL), which finds an optimal policy using an empirical model, has long been recognized as one of the corner stones of RL. It is especially suitable for multi-agent RL (MARL), as it naturally decouples the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Kaiqing Zhang , Sham M. Kakade , Tamer Başar , Lin F. Yang

Generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) has shown promising results by taking advantage of generative adversarial nets, especially in the field of robot learning. However, the requirement of isolated single modal demonstrations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Cong Fei , Bin Wang , Yuzheng Zhuang , Zongzhang Zhang , Jianye Hao , Hongbo Zhang , Xuewu Ji , Wulong Liu

Imitation Learning (IL) methods seek to match the behavior of an agent with that of an expert. In the present work, we propose a new IL method based on a conceptually simple algorithm: Primal Wasserstein Imitation Learning (PWIL), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Robert Dadashi , Léonard Hussenot , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Pietquin

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 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

Imitation learning (IL) aims to mimic the behavior of an expert policy in a sequential decision-making problem given only demonstrations. In this paper, we focus on understanding the minimax statistical limits of IL in episodic Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Nived Rajaraman , Lin F. Yang , Jiantao Jiao , Kannan Ramachandran

Estimating statistical uncertainties allows autonomous agents to communicate their confidence during task execution and is important for applications in safety-critical domains such as autonomous driving. In this work, we present the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Yuchen Cui , David Isele , Scott Niekum , Kikuo Fujimura

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

We study risk-sensitive imitation learning where the agent's goal is to perform at least as well as the expert in terms of a risk profile. We first formulate our risk-sensitive imitation learning setting. We consider the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Jonathan Lacotte , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Yinlam Chow , Marco Pavone

Imitation Learning (IL) has proven highly effective for robotic and control tasks where manually designing reward functions or explicit controllers is infeasible. However, standard IL methods implicitly assume that the environment dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rishabh Agrawal , Yusuf Alvi , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar

Hierarchical Imitation Learning (HIL) has been proposed to recover highly-complex behaviors in long-horizon tasks from expert demonstrations by modeling the task hierarchy with the option framework. Existing methods either overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Jiayu Chen , Tian Lan , Vaneet Aggarwal

Multi-task Imitation Learning (MIL) aims to train a policy capable of performing a distribution of tasks based on multi-task expert demonstrations, which is essential for general-purpose robots. Existing MIL algorithms suffer from low data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Jiayu Chen , Dipesh Tamboli , Tian Lan , Vaneet Aggarwal

We focus on offline imitation learning (IL), which aims to mimic an expert's behavior using demonstrations without any interaction with the environment. One of the main challenges in offline IL is the limited support of expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Huy Hoang , Tien Mai , Pradeep Varakantham

This paper considers learning robot locomotion and manipulation tasks from expert demonstrations. Generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) trains a discriminator that distinguishes expert from agent transitions, and in turn use a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Tianyu Wang , Nikhil Karnwal , Nikolay Atanasov

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

This paper studies offline Imitation Learning (IL) where an agent learns to imitate an expert demonstrator without additional online environment interactions. Instead, the learner is presented with a static offline dataset of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Jonathan D. Chang , Masatoshi Uehara , Dhruv Sreenivas , Rahul Kidambi , Wen Sun