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  1. Iterative Policy Refinement through Semantic Rollout Analysis

    Oct 1, 2026Feiyu Gavin Zhu, Qi Xu, Zhifei Deng +4ImitationRollout

    Carnegie Mellon University · Meta

  2. Experience-Based Feasibility-Aware Generative Adversarial Imitation from Observation under Embodiment Mismatch

    Oct 1, 2026Yoshiki Takebayashi, Giovanni Perantoni, Hikaru Sasaki +2Temporally Coherent Imitation LearningEmbodiment

    Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Nara, Japan · Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Trento, Trento, Italy

  3. When Instructions Retrieve Trajectories: Diagnosing and Mitigating Generalization Failures in VLA Models

    Sep 30, 2026Hung-Jen Chen, Yu-Hsun Hou, Yan-Hong Chen +4Counterfactual LearningImitation

    National Tsing Hua University · National Taiwan University

  4. From Imitation to Reward Discovery: On-Policy Warmup for Agentic RL

    Sep 30, 2026Yitong Qiao, Tiantian He, Lei Liu +4Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardAgentic Reinforcement Learning

    Zhejiang University · Ant Healthcare, Ant Group

  5. Learning Beyond Full Imitation: Task-Preserving Knowledge Distillation

    Sep 30, 2026Qianfeng Yuan, Wenbing TaoKnowledge DistillationKullback-Leibler Divergence

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  6. Overcoming Scaling Limits in On-Policy Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning

    Sep 29, 2026Md. Ismail Hossain, Humaira Kousar, Isidora Chara TourniUnsupervised On-Policy Self-DistillationLLM Reasoning Strategies

    North South University · KAIST · Andria Labs

  7. BlenDAgger: Blended Shared Control for Interactive Imitation Learning

    Sep 29, 2026Cailyn Smith, Geoffrey Sun, Henny Admoni +1Robotic Manipulation PoliciesRobot Policies

    The Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA · School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA

  8. Direct Experience World-Model Optimization: Learning the World Beyond Action Imitation

    Sep 29, 2026Xiangcheng Zhan, Zirui Chen, Yicheng Zhao +2Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    Harbin Institute of Technology · Dalian University of Technology · Southern University of Science and Technology

  9. Beyond Conservatism: Recoverability-Conditioned Exploration for Model-Based Imitation Learning

    Sep 27, 2026Xuanlin Chen, Ziyue Wang, Xunlan Zhou +3Imitation LearningImitation

    School of Intelligent Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China · National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, China

  10. Minimal Recurrent Behavioral Memory for Imitation under Partial Observability

    Sep 22, 2026Xianyao Li, Fang Xu, Rui Min +2ImitationPartial Observability

  11. A Robot Among People:From Social Imitation to the Social Becoming of Human Groups

    Sep 14, 2026Victor Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange +1Complex SocietiesRobot Systems

    Ubiquitous Design / Experience & Interaction, University of Siegen Siegen, Germany · Honda Research Institute Europe Offenbach am Main, Germany

  12. Certified Safety Curation: Distribution-Free Guarantees for Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Adam Haroon, Cody FlemingModel-Based Reinforcement LearningSafety Claims

    Iowa State University Ames, IA, USA

  13. Improving Imitation Learning Efficiency for Manipulation through Geometric Prior Pretraining

    Sep 14, 2026Shogo Iwakata, Tomohiro Motoda, Ryosuke Yamada +8Temporally Coherent Imitation LearningImitation Learning

    Waseda University · Embodied AI Research Team, AIRC and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) · Computer Vision Research Team, AIRC and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) +3

  14. Co-Evolving Harnesses and Models: On-Policy Correction Helps Weaker Models Catch Up Where Imitation Fails

    Sep 8, 2026Zhou Yu, Bin Bi, Shiva Kumar Pentyala +8Agentic LearningParameter-Efficient Adaptation

    Salesforce AI

  15. Mechanism Design for Alignment and Control

    Sep 1, 2026Dirk Bergemann, Andrew Koh, Stephen MorrisIncentivesArtificial Intelligence Alignment

    Yale · Columbia · MIT +1

  16. Does Imitation Learning Preserve Temporal Robustness in Dexterous Manipulation? An Expert-Learner Comparison Across Task Execution Speeds

    Sep 1, 2026Clinton Enwerem, John S. Baras, Calin BeltaImitation LearningRobotic Manipulation Policies

    Institute for Systems Research University of Maryland College Park, MD, U.S.A.

  17. Intent Speaks Louder: Controllable User Simulation Beyond Response Imitation

    Aug 10, 2026Bo Wang, Ruixing Zhang, Yunqi Liu +4User SimulationImitation

    the State Key Laboratory of Complex and Critical Software Environment, Beihang University

  18. Imaginative Generative AI: Crossing the Entropy Wall into Worlds Beyond Imitation

    Aug 10, 2026Farzan Farnia, Hossein Goli, Amin GohariImaginationImitation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  19. SpeedTuning: Speeding Up Policy Execution with Lightweight Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 10, 2026David D. Yuan, Tony Z. Zhao, Kaylee Burns +1Robotic Manipulation PoliciesRobotic Manipulation

    Stanford University

  20. VIDP: Variable Impedance Diffusion Policy for Compliant Robot Manipulation from Diverse Demonstrations

    Aug 6, 2026Hisham Khalil, Neil Fernandes, Thomas M. Kwok +2Impedance ControlRobotic Manipulation Policies

    Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada · School of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

  21. Turing's First Imitation Game: Design Concepts and a Human-Approximates-Machine Reading

    Aug 6, 2026Sharon Temtsin, Christoph BartneckCounter Turing TestImitation

    University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand

  22. PRIMAL3: Pathfinding via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning - Leveraging LaCAM3

    Aug 5, 2026Chengyang He, Tanishq Duhan, Gadiel Sznaier Camps +6Multi-Agent Path FindingImitation

    Multi-Agent Robotic Motion Lab (MARMot), National University of Singapore · Multi-robot Systems Lab (MSL), Stanford University · Robotics and Machine Intelligence Lab (ROMI), Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  23. ValueFormer: A Causal Transformer Value Function with Stage-Aware Labels for Semi-Autonomous Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Aug 3, 2026Inkyu Sa, Konstantin Stulov, Rajat BhageriaImitation

    Chef Robotics

  24. TWINS: A Tactile Wearable Isomorphic Arm Networked System for Contact-Rich Manipulation Learning

    Aug 3, 2026Takahide Kitamura, Masaki Murooka, Natsuki Yamanobe +1TactileContact-Rich Manipulation

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2-3-26 Aomi, Koto-ku, 135-0064, Tokyo, Japan.

  25. Creative Transformation in Literary Texts: Modelling Change Across Representational Levels

    Jul 30, 2026Ioana-Roxana Boriceanu, Liviu P. DinuCreativityLiterature

    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science · University of Bucharest, Romania · Human Language Technologies Research Center

  26. Inverse RL Helps Align AI by Imitating Humans

    Jul 27, 2026Michał Wiliński, Liu Leqi, Chirag NagpalLarge Language Model AlignmentReinforcement Learning From Human Feedback

    Carnegie Mellon University · The University of Texas at Austin · Independent Researcher

  27. Imitation of Arm Gestures by the Semi-Humanoid Robot NICO

    Jul 20, 2026Anastasiya Ihnatovich, Igor FarkašHumanoid RoboticsMotion Imitation

    Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava, Mlynská dolina 6284, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia

  28. Distributionally Robust and Safe Imitation Learning

    Jul 15, 2026Ahmed Aboudonia, Naira HovakimyanStrong Imitation LearningImitation Learning

    University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

  29. Agentic-DPO: From Imitation to Agentic Policy Optimization on Expert Trajectories

    Jul 12, 2026Yixiong Chen, Alan YuilleAgentic Reinforcement LearningFrictive Policy Optimization

    Johns Hopkins University

  30. Compete Then Collaborate: Frontier AI Teachers Build a Verifiable Curriculum to Improve a Coding Student Beyond Imitation

    Jul 9, 2026Miseong Shawn KimArtificial Intelligence EducationCurriculum

    Genesis Cortex AI Inc.

  31. Feedback Manipulation Regularization: Enabling Offline Agent Alignment for Imitation Learning

    Jul 8, 2026Benjamin Poole, Minwoo LeeReinforcement Learning From Human FeedbackImitation

    Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  32. Shift & Drift: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Generalizable and Robust Autonomous Driving Motion Planning

    Jul 8, 2026Alessandro Canevaro, Hang Yu, Julian Schmidt +5Autonomous Driving SimulationGeometric Planning

    Mercedes-Benz AG, Research & Development, Sindelfingen, Germany · University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, ITIV, Karlsruhe, Germany

  33. Language-Critique Imitation Learning from Suboptimal Demonstrations

    Jul 1, 2026Chih-Han Yang, Dai-Jie Wu, Yun-Ping Huang +3Temporally Coherent Imitation LearningStrong Imitation Learning

    Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU) · University of Utah · National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University +1

  34. Active-GRPO: Adaptive Imitation and Self-Improving Reasoning for Molecular Optimization

    Jul 1, 2026Xuefeng Liu, Mingxuan Cao, Qinan Huang +3Molecular OptimizationFlow-Grpo

    School of Medicine, Stanford University · 2Data Science Institute, University of Chicago · 3Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago +2

  35. The Label Imitation Game: Turing Test Network for Zero-Shot Pseudo-Label Pruning

    Jun 29, 2026Brent A. Griffin, Jason J. CorsoZero-ShotPretraining

    Voxel51 · University of Michigan

  36. World Action Models Enable Continual Imitation Learning with Recurrent Generative Replays

    Jun 25, 2026Manish Kumar Govind, Dominick Reilly, Smit Patel +2Efficient World-Action ModelAction Generation

    Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States

  37. Humanoid-DART: Humanoid Loco-Manipulation using Diffusion-guided Augmentation through Relabeling and Tracking

    Jun 25, 2026Pranav Debbad, Kanish Thiagarajan, Victor Dhédin +2Humanoid Loco-ManipulationDiffusion Policies

    Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.

  38. Bridging Handheld and Teleoperated Supervision for Contact-Rich Manipulation via State-Gated Experts

    Jun 25, 2026Vidullan Surendran, Neehar Peri, David WatkinsTeleoperationContact-Rich Manipulation

    RAI Institute · Carnegie Mellon University

  39. Beyond Monotonic Progress: Retry-Supervised Value Learning for Robot Imitation

    Jun 23, 2026Xinyao Qin, Junjie Lu, Kaixin Wang +7ImitationValue Functions

    Tsinghua University · Work done at Microsoft Research Asia · University of Technology Sydney +3

  40. Learning to See While Learning to Act: Diffusion Models for Active Perception in Robot Imitation

    Jun 22, 2026Kuancheng Wang, Vaibhav Saxena, Shuo Cheng +2Real-World Manipulation TasksImitation

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Autodesk Research · NVIDIA

  41. Imitation from Heterogeneous Demonstrations using Grounded Latent-Action World Models

    Jun 19, 2026Tianyou Wang, Anson Lei, Joe Watson +1Latent Action ModelsImitation Learning

    University of Oxford

  42. VFILC: Accurate Frequency Extrapolations in Imitation Learning via Sampling Frequency ILC

    Jun 18, 2026Nozomu Masuya, Toshiaki Tsuji, Sho SakainoTemporally Coherent Imitation LearningImitation Learning

    Grad. School of Science and Technology University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan · Grad. School of Science and Engineering Saitama University Saitama, Japan · Systems and Information Engineering University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan

  43. CADET: Physics-Grounded Causal Auditing and Training-Free Deconfounding of End-to-End Driving Planners

    Jun 12, 2026Zikun GuoCausalClassical Planning

    School of Intelligent Driving, Xinwei Institute of Artificial Intelligence · Geely Central Research Institute

  44. From Imitation to Alignment: Human-Preference Flow Policies for Long-Horizon Sidewalk Navigation

    Jun 10, 2026Honglin He, Zhizheng Liu, Yukai Ma +1Flow PoliciesImitation Learning

    University of California, Los Angeles

  45. Ambient Diffusion Policy: Imitation Learning from Suboptimal Data in Robotics

    Jun 10, 2026Adam Wei, Nicholas Pfaff, Thomas Cohn +4Diffusion PoliciesImitation

    MIT

  46. Fourier Features Let Agents Learn High Precision Policies with Imitation Learning

    Jun 10, 2026Balázs Gyenes, Emiliyan Gospodinov, Jan Frieling +5Point CloudsRobotic Manipulation Policies

    Autonomous Learning Robots, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany · HIDSS4Health - Helmholtz Information and Data Science School for Health, Karlsruhe/Heidelberg, Germany

  47. Speculative Rollback Correction for Quality-Diverse Web Agent Imitation

    Jun 10, 2026Longkun Hao, Hongyu Lin, Hao Li +10Imitation LearningAutoregressive Rollout

    Beihang University · Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +4

  48. Beyond Absolute Imitation: Anchored Residual Guidance for Privileged On-Policy Distillation

    Jun 9, 2026Wenhao ZhangEfficient On-Policy DistillationTeacher

    South China University of Technology

  49. Difference-Aware Retrieval Policies for Imitation Learning

    Jun 8, 2026Quinn Pfeifer, Ethan Pronovost, Paarth Shah +3Imitation LearningBehavior Cloning

    1Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington · 2Toyota Research Institute · 3Google DeepMind +1

  50. DexPIE: Stable Dexterous Policy Improvement from Real-World Experience

    Jun 8, 2026Ruizhe Liao, Wenrui Chen, Liangji Zeng +4Contact-Rich Dexterous ManipulationAction Space

    Hunan University

  51. Declarative Outcome-Conformant Synthesis: Exact, Closed-Form Specification Satisfaction and a Conformance Benchmark

    Jun 7, 2026Muhammed RasinSynthetic Tabular DataSynthesis

    Independent Researcher

  52. When Offline Selectors Cannot Beat the Best Single Model: A Diagnostic Study on edX Dropout Prediction

    Jun 2, 2026Tyler Crosse, Alan Nadelsticher Ruvalcaba, Dustin Khang LeDuc +3Model SelectionPrediction Error

    Georgia Institute of Technology.

  53. Training-Free Imitation Learning with Closed-Form Diffusion Policies

    May 31, 2026Raghav Mishra, Ian R. ManchesterDiffusion PoliciesImitation Learning

    Australian Center for Robotics, ARIAM Hub, and School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering University of Sydney

  54. Beyond Independent Manipulation: Individual Fairness-aware Strategic Classification with Peer Imitation

    May 30, 2026Xinpeng Lv, Chunyuan Zheng, Yunxin Mao +9Algorithmic FairnessEmotional Manipulation

    College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology · Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics · School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University +3

  55. Infeasible optimization problems and the hierarchical augmented Lagrangian method in imitation learning

    May 30, 2026Roland Andrews, Justin Carpentier, Ajay SathyaImitation LearningRobot Policies

  56. HOIST: Humanoid Optimization with Imitation and Sample-efficient Tuning for Manipulating Suspended Loads

    May 29, 2026Songyang Liu, Shunyu Yao, Dingyuan Huang +1Whole-Body ControlImitation Learning

    Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering University of Florida United States

  57. SWIM: Single-Instance Whole-Body Imitation for swiMming

    May 29, 2026Binglun Wang, Edmond S. L. Ho, He WangMotion ImitationWhole-Body Motion

    University College London · University of Glasgow

  58. What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies

    May 27, 2026Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4Frozen Vision-Language ModelsImitation

    Peking University · China Agricultural University · 1Peking University. +1

  59. Teacher-Student Representational Alignment for Reinforcement Learning-Driven Imitation Learning

    May 27, 2026Meraj Mammadov, Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires, Johannes Andreas StorkTemporally Coherent Imitation LearningImitation Learning

    Department of Computer Science Örebro University

  60. Beyond the Target: From Imitation to Collaboration in Speculative Decoding

    May 24, 2026Jinze Li, Yixing Xu, Guanchen Li +7Speculative DecodingCollaboration

    Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Beijing, China · The University of Hong Kong · University of North Texas