A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilled SAILOR: Robust Imitation via Learning to Search

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Authors
Arnav Kumar Jain, Vibhakar Mohta, Subin Kim, Atiksh Bhardwaj, Juntao Ren, Yunhai Feng, Sanjiban Choudhury, Gokul Swamy
Venue
NeurIPS 2025
Track
Spotlight

TL;DR

The fundamental limitation of the behavioral cloning (BC) approach to imitation learning is that it only teaches an agent what the expert did at states the expert visited…

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Topics

imitation learning agent

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