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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

Driving requires reacting to a wide variety of complex environment conditions and agent behaviors. Explicitly modeling each possible scenario is unrealistic. In contrast, imitation learning can, in theory, leverage data from large fleets of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Felipe Codevilla , Eder Santana , Antonio M. López , Adrien Gaidon

Behavior cloning has shown success in many sequential decision-making tasks by learning from expert demonstrations, yet they can be very sample inefficient and fail to generalize to unseen scenarios. One approach to these problems is to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Feiyu Zhu , Jean Oh , Reid Simmons

Behavioral cloning becomes difficult when the same observation admits several valid actions. We study this problem for action-chunking policies and show that different multimodal parameterizations fail in different ways. For latent-variable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Lorenzo Mazza , Massimiliano Datres , Ariel Rodriguez , Sebastian Bodenstedt , Gitta Kutyniok , Stefanie Speidel

With the rise of stochastic generative models in robot policy learning, end-to-end visuomotor policies are increasingly successful at solving complex tasks by learning from human demonstrations. Nevertheless, since real-world evaluation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Joseph A. Vincent , Haruki Nishimura , Masha Itkina , Paarth Shah , Mac Schwager , Thomas Kollar

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

Behavioural cloning has been extensively used to train agents and is recognized as a fast and solid approach to teach general behaviours based on expert trajectories. Such method follows the supervised learning paradigm and it strongly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Federico Malato , Joona Jehkonen , Ville Hautamäki

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

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Juarez Monteiro , Nathan Gavenski , Felipe Meneguzzi , Rodrigo C. Barros

This article presents the implementation and evaluation of a behavior cloning approach for route following with autonomous cars. Behavior cloning is a machine-learning technique in which a neural network is trained to mimic the driving…

Transferring learned skills across diverse situations remains a fundamental challenge for autonomous agents, particularly when agents are not allowed to interact with an exact target setup. While prior approaches have predominantly focused…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Hayato Watahiki , Ryo Iwase , Ryosuke Unno , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Behavior cloning is a common imitation learning paradigm. Under behavior cloning the robot collects expert demonstrations, and then trains a policy to match the actions taken by the expert. This works well when the robot learner visits…

Behavior cloning has shown promise for robot manipulation, but real-world demonstrations are costly to acquire at scale. While simulated data offers a scalable alternative, particularly with advances in automated demonstration generation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shuo Cheng , Liqian Ma , Zhenyang Chen , Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett , Danfei Xu

Generalizing beyond the training domain in image-based behavior cloning remains challenging. Existing methods address individual axes of generalization, workspace shifts, viewpoint changes, and cross-embodiment transfer, yet they are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Ruiyu Wang , Zheyu Zhuang , Danica Kragic , Florian T. Pokorny

Behavioral cloning is a simple yet effective technique for learning sequential decision-making from demonstrations. Recently, it has gained prominence as the core of foundation models for the physical world, where achieving generalization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Ev Zisselman , Mirco Mutti , Shelly Francis-Meretzki , Elisei Shafer , Aviv Tamar

Behavior Cloning (BC) is an effective imitation learning technique and has even been adopted in some safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles. BC trains a policy to mimic the behavior of an expert by using a dataset composed of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shili Wu , Yizhao Jin , Puhua Niu , Aniruddha Datta , Sean B. Andersson

Behavior cloning methods for robot learning suffer from poor generalization due to limited data support beyond expert demonstrations. Recent approaches leveraging video prediction models have shown promising results by learning rich…

We present a visual imitation learning framework that enables learning of robot action policies solely based on expert samples without any robot trials. Robot exploration and on-policy trials in a real-world environment could often be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Alan Wu , AJ Piergiovanni , Michael S. Ryoo

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

How effective are recent advancements in autonomous vehicle perception systems when applied to real-world autonomous vehicle control? While numerous vision-based autonomous vehicle systems have been trained and evaluated in simulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Mustafa Yildirim , Barkin Dagda , Vinal Asodia , Saber Fallah

Behavioral cloning reduces policy learning to supervised learning by training a discriminative model to predict expert actions given observations. Such discriminative models are non-causal: the training procedure is unaware of the causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Pim de Haan , Dinesh Jayaraman , Sergey Levine
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