Imitation Learning
Imitation learning aims to train agents to mimic expert behavior by learning from observational data, primarily focusing on efficiently transferring complex skills from humans or other advanced controllers to robots. Current research emphasizes improving data efficiency through techniques like active learning, data augmentation, and leveraging large language models to provide richer context and handle failures. This field is crucial for advancing robotics, autonomous driving, and other areas requiring complex control policies, as it offers a more data-driven and potentially less labor-intensive approach than traditional programming methods.
Papers
Generalizing to New Tasks via One-Shot Compositional Subgoals
Xihan Bian, Oscar Mendez, Simon Hadfield
An Empirical Investigation of Representation Learning for Imitation
Xin Chen, Sam Toyer, Cody Wild, Scott Emmons, Ian Fischer, Kuang-Huei Lee, Neel Alex, Steven H Wang, Ping Luo, Stuart Russell, Pieter Abbeel, Rohin Shah