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Making decisions in complex driving environments is a challenging task for autonomous agents. Imitation learning methods have great potentials for achieving such a goal. Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning (AIRL) is one of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Pin Wang , Dapeng Liu , Jiayu Chen , Hanhan Li , Ching-Yao Chan

Few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) is a more realistic and challenging paradigm in continual learning to incrementally learn unseen classes and overcome catastrophic forgetting on base classes with only a few training examples.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Haidong Kang , Wei Wu , Hanling Wang

Designing a safe and human-like decision-making system for an autonomous vehicle is a challenging task. Generative imitation learning is one possible approach for automating policy-building by leveraging both real-world and simulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Arec Jamgochian , Etienne Buehrle , Johannes Fischer , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Machine-learning paradigms such as imitation learning and reinforcement learning can generate highly performant agents in a variety of complex environments. However, commonly used methods require large quantities of data and/or a known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Noah Ford , Ryan W. Gardner , Austin Juhl , Nathan Larson

Complex planning and scheduling problems have long been solved using various optimization or heuristic approaches. In recent years, imitation learning that aims to learn from expert demonstrations has been proposed as a viable alternative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Qian Shao , Pradeep Varakantham , Shih-Fen Cheng

Reliable prediction of train delays is essential for enhancing the robustness and efficiency of railway transportation systems. In this work, we reframe delay forecasting as a stochastic simulation task, modeling state-transition dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Clément Elliker , Jesse Read , Sonia Vanier , Albert Bifet

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

Conditional imitation learning (CIL) trains deep neural networks, in an end-to-end manner, to mimic human driving. This approach has demonstrated suitable vehicle control when following roads, avoiding obstacles, or taking specific turns at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Hesham M. Eraqi , Mohamed N. Moustafa , Jens Honer

Many tasks in practice require the collaboration of multiple agents through reinforcement learning. In general, cooperative multiagent reinforcement learning algorithms can be classified into two paradigms: Joint Action Learners (JALs) and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Xiaotian Hao , Weixun Wang , Jianye Hao , Yaodong Yang

Learning from demonstrations has made great progress over the past few years. However, it is generally data hungry and task specific. In other words, it requires a large amount of data to train a decent model on a particular task, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Pin Wang , Hanhan Li , Ching-Yao Chan

The control of spatio-temporally chaos is challenging because of high dimensionality and unpredictability. Model-free reinforcement learning (RL) discovers optimal control policies by interacting with the system, typically requiring…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Defne E. Ozan , Andrea Nóvoa , Georgios Rigas , Luca Magri

We present a new technique to enhance the robustness of imitation learning methods by generating corrective data to account for compounding errors and disturbances. While existing methods rely on interactive expert labeling, additional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Liyiming Ke , Yunchu Zhang , Abhay Deshpande , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Abhishek Gupta

Imitation Learning (IL) is an important paradigm within the broader reinforcement learning (RL) methodology. Unlike most of RL, it does not assume availability of reward-feedback. Reward inference and shaping are known to be difficult and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Rishabh Agrawal , Nathan Dahlin , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar

We present an algorithm for Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) from expert state observations only. Our approach decouples reward modelling from policy learning, unlike state-of-the-art adversarial methods which require updating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Wei-Di Chang , Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera , Scott Fujimoto , David Meger , Gregory Dudek

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

Prior authorization (PA) requires interpretation of complex and fragmented coverage policies, yet existing retrieval-augmented systems rely on static top-$K$ strategies with fixed numbers of retrieved sections. Such fixed retrieval can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ruslan Sharifullin , Maxim Gorshkov , Hannah Clay

Imitation learning suffers from causal confusion. This phenomenon occurs when learned policies attend to features that do not causally influence the expert actions but are instead spuriously correlated. Causally confused agents produce low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Samuel Pfrommer , Yatong Bai , Hyunin Lee , Somayeh Sojoudi

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a promising way to achieve human-like autonomous driving. However, the low sample efficiency and difficulty of designing reward functions for DRL would hinder its applications in practice. In light of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Zhiyu Huang , Jingda Wu , Chen Lv

Improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) typically relies either on the model's ability to sample a correct solution to be reinforced or on the existence of a stronger model able to solve the problem. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ethan Mendes , Jungsoo Park , Alan Ritter

Imitation learning allows social robots to learn new skills from human teachers without substantial manual programming, but it is difficult for robotic imitation learning systems to generalize demonstrated skills as well as human learners…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Gregory P. Davis , Garrett E. Katz , Rodolphe J. Gentili , James A. Reggia