Imitation Learning

Imitation learning techniques aim to mimic human behavior in a given task.

Some applications:

• Simulated highway driving
• Aerial imagery-based navigation
• Parking lot navigation
• Quadrupled locomation

Resources

• https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs237b/pdfs/lecture/lecture_10111213.pdf
• https://smartlabai.medium.com/a-brief-overview-of-imitation-learning-8a8a75c44a9c (Simple, in Laymann’s terms)

Offline RL or imitation learning?

• https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2022/04/25/rl-or-bc/

Types of imitation learning:

• Behavior Cloning
• Direct Policy Learning
• Inverse RL
• (NEW) Diffusion Policy