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This article presents novel methods for synthesizing distributionally robust stabilizing neural controllers and certificates for control systems under model uncertainty. A key challenge in designing controllers with stability guarantees for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Kehan Long , Jorge Cortes , Nikolay Atanasov

Imitation learning (IL) consists of a set of tools that leverage expert demonstrations to quickly learn policies. However, if the expert is suboptimal, IL can yield policies with inferior performance compared to reinforcement learning (RL).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Ching-An Cheng , Xinyan Yan , Nolan Wagener , Byron Boots

Imitation Learning (IL) has achieved remarkable success across various domains, including robotics, autonomous driving, and healthcare, by enabling agents to learn complex behaviors from expert demonstrations. However, existing IL methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shangzhe Li , Zhiao Huang , Hao Su

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) faces challenges of memorizing old class distributions and estimating new class distributions given few training samples. In this study, we propose a learnable distribution calibration (LDC)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Binghao Liu , Boyu Yang , Lingxi Xie , Ren Wang , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye

Imitation learning (IL) can generate computationally efficient sensorimotor policies from demonstrations provided by computationally expensive model-based sensing and control algorithms. However, commonly employed IL methods are often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Andrea Tagliabue , Jonathan P. How

We study a robust alternative to empirical risk minimization called distributionally robust learning (DRL), in which one learns to perform against an adversary who can choose the data distribution from a specified set of distributions. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Charlie Frogner , Sebastian Claici , Edward Chien , Justin Solomon

Fast execution of contact-rich manipulation is critical for practical deployment, yet providing fast demonstrations for imitation learning (IL) remains challenging: humans cannot demonstrate at high speed, and naively accelerating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Koki Yamane , Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez , Steven Oh , Masashi Hamaya , Sho Sakaino

In many sequential decision-making problems (e.g., robotics control, game playing, sequential prediction), human or expert data is available containing useful information about the task. However, imitation learning (IL) from a small amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Divyansh Garg , Shuvam Chakraborty , Chris Cundy , Jiaming Song , Matthieu Geist , Stefano Ermon

Tropical Cyclone (TC) estimation aims to accurately estimate various TC attributes in real time. However, distribution shifts arising from the complex and dynamic nature of TC environmental fields, such as varying geographical conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hanting Yan , Pan Mu , Shiqi Zhang , Yuchao Zhu , Jinglin Zhang , Cong Bai

A method is presented to learn neural network (NN) controllers with stability and safety guarantees through imitation learning (IL). Convex stability and safety conditions are derived for linear time-invariant plant dynamics with NN…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 He Yin , Peter Seiler , Ming Jin , Murat Arcak

Consider learning an imitation policy on the basis of demonstrated behavior from multiple environments, with an eye towards deployment in an unseen environment. Since the observable features from each setting may be different, directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-06 Ioana Bica , Daniel Jarrett , Mihaela van der Schaar

Self-driving cars and autonomous driving research has been receiving considerable attention as major promising prospects in modern artificial intelligence applications. According to the evolution of advanced driver assistance system (ADAS),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Won Joon Yun , MyungJae Shin , Soyi Jung , Sean Kwon , Joongheon Kim

Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) is a dominant framework in imitation learning that infers rewards from expert demonstrations to guide policy optimization. Although providing more expert demonstrations typically leads to improved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Pengcheng Li , Qiang Fang , Tong Zhao , Yixing Lan , Xin Xu

With the evolution of various advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) platforms, the design of autonomous driving system is becoming more complex and safety-critical. The autonomous driving system simultaneously activates multiple ADAS…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-15 MyungJae Shin , Joongheon Kim

One of the main challenges in imitation learning is determining what action an agent should take when outside the state distribution of the demonstrations. Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) can enable generalization to new states by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Daniel S. Brown , Scott Niekum , Marek Petrik

Training a policy in a source domain for deployment in the target domain under a dynamics shift can be challenging, often resulting in performance degradation. Previous work tackles this challenge by training on the source domain with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yihong Guo , Yixuan Wang , Yuanyuan Shi , Pan Xu , Anqi Liu

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success, yet its deployment in real-world scenarios is often limited by vulnerability to environmental uncertainties. Distributionally robust RL (DR-RL) algorithms have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mingxuan Cui , Duo Zhou , Yuxuan Han , Grani A. Hanasusanto , Qiong Wang , Huan Zhang , Zhengyuan Zhou

Meta-reinforcement learning (Meta-RL) facilitates rapid adaptation to unseen tasks but faces challenges in long-horizon environments. Skill-based approaches tackle this by decomposing state-action sequences into reusable skills and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sanghyeon Lee , Sangjun Bae , Yisak Park , Seungyul Han

High-quality and representative data is essential for both Imitation Learning (IL)- and Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based motion planning tasks. For real robots, it is challenging to collect enough qualified data either as demonstrations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Sha Luo , Lambert Schomaker

Practical Imitation Learning (IL) systems rely on large human demonstration datasets for successful policy learning. However, challenges lie in maintaining the quality of collected data and addressing the suboptimal nature of some…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sachit Kuhar , Shuo Cheng , Shivang Chopra , Matthew Bronars , Danfei Xu