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Demonstrations are commonly used to speed up the learning process of Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms. To cope with the difficulty of accessing multiple demonstrations, some algorithms have been developed to learn from a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Alexandre Chenu , Olivier Serris , Olivier Sigaud , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert

Precise robot manipulation is critical for fine-grained applications such as chemical and biological experiments, where even small errors (e.g., reagent spillage) can invalidate an entire task. Existing approaches often rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xiangyu Chen , Chuhao Zhou , Yuxi Liu , Jianfei Yang

Imitation learning (IL) enables robots to acquire skills quickly by transferring expert knowledge, which is widely adopted in reinforcement learning (RL) to initialize exploration. However, in long-horizon motion planning tasks, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Sha Luo , Hamidreza Kasaei , Lambert Schomaker

This paper proposes a method to combine reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL) using a dynamic, performance-based modulation over learning signals. The proposed method combines RL and behavioral cloning (IL), or corrective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Francisco Leiva , Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning (RL) have demonstrated its potential to learn complex robotic manipulation tasks. However, RL still requires the robot to collect a large amount of real-world experience. To address this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Bohan Wu , Feng Xu , Zhanpeng He , Abhi Gupta , Peter K. Allen

Construction robots are challenging the traditional paradigm of labor intensive and repetitive construction tasks. Present concerns regarding construction robots are focused on their abilities in performing complex tasks consisting of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Kangkang Duan , Zhengbo Zou

Imitation learning (IL) has proven effective across a wide range of manipulation tasks. However, IL policies often struggle when faced with out-of-distribution observations; for instance, when the target object is in a previously unseen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yinlong Dai , Andre Keyser , Dylan P. Losey

Existing value-based online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms suffer from slow policy exploitation due to ineffective exploration and delayed policy updates. To address these challenges, we propose an algorithm called Instant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Gong Gao , Weidong Zhao , Xianhui Liu , Ning Jia

Current lane detection methods are struggling with the invisibility lane issue caused by heavy shadows, severe road mark degradation, and serious vehicle occlusion. As a result, discriminative lane features can be barely learned by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yue He , Minyue Jiang , Xiaoqing Ye , Liang Du , Zhikang Zou , Wei Zhang , Xiao Tan , Errui Ding

Behavior cloning provides strong imitation learning guarantees when training and test environments share the same dynamics. However, in many deployment settings the test environment's transitions differ from training, and classical offline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Surbhi Goel , Jonathan Pei , James Wang

Visual imitation learning provides an effective framework to learn skills from demonstrations. However, the quality of the provided demonstrations usually significantly affects the ability of an agent to acquire desired skills. Therefore,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Ray Chen Zheng , Kaizhe Hu , Zhecheng Yuan , Boyuan Chen , Huazhe Xu

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

We address the problem of imitation learning with multi-modal demonstrations. Instead of attempting to learn all modes, we argue that in many tasks it is sufficient to imitate any one of them. We show that the state-of-the-art methods such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Liyiming Ke , Sanjiban Choudhury , Matt Barnes , Wen Sun , Gilwoo Lee , Siddhartha Srinivasa

Many imitation learning (IL) algorithms use inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) to infer a reward function that aligns with the demonstration. However, the inferred reward functions often fail to capture the underlying task objectives. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Weichao Zhou , Wenchao Li

Imitation Learning is a promising paradigm for learning complex robot manipulation skills by reproducing behavior from human demonstrations. However, manipulation tasks often contain bottleneck regions that require a sequence of precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Ajay Mandlekar , Danfei Xu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Yuke Zhu , Li Fei-Fei , Silvio Savarese

Interactive imitation learning is an efficient, model-free method through which a robot can learn a task by repetitively iterating an execution of a learning policy and a data collection by querying human demonstrations. However, deploying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Hanbit Oh , Takamitsu Matsubara

In Imitation Learning (IL), utilizing suboptimal and heterogeneous demonstrations presents a substantial challenge due to the varied nature of real-world data. However, standard IL algorithms consider these datasets as homogeneous, thereby…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Mark Beliaev , Ramtin Pedarsani

Inverse Dynamics Models (IDMs) map visual observations to low-level action commands, serving as central components for data labeling and policy execution in embodied AI. However, their performance degrades severely under manipulator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Kerui Li , Zhe Jing , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Yukun Zhou , Guan Huang , Dongze Li , Qingkai Yang , Huaibo Huang

Imitation learning (IL) enables autonomous behavior by learning from expert demonstrations. While more sample-efficient than comparative alternatives like reinforcement learning, IL is sensitive to compounding errors induced by distribution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Aditya Gahlawat , Ahmed Aboudonia , Sandeep Banik , Naira Hovakimyan , Nikolai Matni , Aaron D. Ames , Gioele Zardini , Alberto Speranzon

Most existing imitation learning approaches assume the demonstrations are drawn from experts who are optimal, but relaxing this assumption enables us to use a wider range of data. Standard imitation learning may learn a suboptimal policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Songyuan Zhang , Zhangjie Cao , Dorsa Sadigh , Yanan Sui