arXiv AI September 17, 2026 By Maxwell J. Jacobson, Ahmed H Qureshi, Yexiang Xue

Missing Bridges: Composition-Aware Active Imitation Learning

The paper introduces Adaptive Agents via Latent Topologies (AALT), a method for active imitation learning that selects demonstrations based on their expected impact on start‑to‑goal connectivity rather than generic information gain. AALT builds a latent topology of hub states and learned behaviors, identifies high‑value bridge demonstrations that can solve many tasks simultaneously, and uses these to condition a diffusion policy for planning. In a simulated UR5e robot retrieval task with 72 start‑goal pairs, AALT achieved 100% success after only three demonstrations, outperforming baselines that required many more queries.

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