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
Surgical Robot Transformer (SRT): Imitation Learning for Surgical Tasks
Ji Woong Kim, Tony Z. Zhao, Samuel Schmidgall, Anton Deguet, Marin Kobilarov, Chelsea Finn, Axel Krieger
Flow Matching Imitation Learning for Multi-Support Manipulation
Quentin Rouxel (Inria), Andrea Ferrari (Inria), Serena Ivaldi (Inria), Jean-Baptiste Mouret (Inria)