arXiv:2607. 01225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prior work on imitation learning from suboptimal demonstrations typically relies on compressed supervision signals such as confidence estimates, discriminator scores, or importance weights.
By Chih-Han Yang, Dai-Jie Wu, Yun-Ping Huang, Ping-Chun Hsieh, Kenneth Marino, Shao-Hua Sun
arXiv:2506. 06793v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward assignment from scarce demonstrations is a key challenge in both offline and online imitation learning.
By Zixuan Dong, Yumi Omori, Keith Ross
arXiv:2607. 10601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are commonly trained from expert trajectories using supervised fine-tuning (SFT), which treats multi-turn agent behavior as ordinary text imitation.
By Yixiong Chen, Alan Yuille
arXiv:2606. 09758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parametric imitation learning via behavior cloning can suffer from poor generalization to out-of-distribution states due to compounding errors during deployment.
By Quinn Pfeifer, Ethan Pronovost, Paarth Shah, Khimya Khetarpal, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Abhishek Gupta
arXiv:2606. 01238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While diffusion-based policies have impressive performance and expressivity, their long offline training slows down the data collection and policy deployment loop.
By Raghav Mishra, Ian R. Manchester
arXiv:2601. 22823v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study offline reinforcement learning of style-conditioned policies using explicit style supervision via subtrajectory labeling functions.
By Mathieu Petitbois, R\'emy Portelas, Sylvain Lamprier
arXiv:2607. 21302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior prior reinforcement learning (BPRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm to improve sample efficiency in online reinforcement learning (RL) by leveraging policy priors derived from offline demonstrations.
By Gong Gao, Weidong Zhao, Xianhui Liu, Ning Jia
arXiv:2512. 16861v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-horizon manipulation has been a long-standing challenge in the robotics community.
By Zihan Zhou, Animesh Garg, Ajay Mandlekar, Caelan Garrett
arXiv:2501. 14622v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning efficient representations for decision-making policies is a challenge in imitation learning (IL).
By Aleksandar Vujinovic, Aleksandar Kovacevic
arXiv:2608. 11363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal in robot learning is to move beyond task-specific human data collection toward robots that improve through autonomous interaction.
By Shreyas Kowshik, Sreyas Venkataraman, Leo Wang, Niharika Pant, Max Simchowitz, Aviral Kumar
arXiv:2606. 02194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for dexterous manipulation.
By Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Ingmar Posner, Jan Peters
arXiv:2507. 15356v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) learns policies from fixed datasets, thereby avoiding costly or unsafe environment interactions.
By Lu Guo, Yixiang Shan, Zhengbang Zhu, Qifan Liang, Lichang Song, Ting Long, Weinan Zhang, Yi Chang