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A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilled SAILOR: Robust Imitation via Learning to Search
Arnav Kumar Jain, Vibhakar Mohta, Subin Kim +5
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. This mea…
All Roads Lead to Likelihood: The Value of Reinforcement Learning in Fine-Tuning
Gokul Swamy, Sanjiban Choudhury, Wen Sun +2
From a first-principles perspective, it may seem odd that the strongest results in foundation model fine-tuning (FT) are achieved via a relatively complex, two-stage training proce…
The Importance of Online Data: Understanding Preference Fine-tuning via Coverage
Yuda Song, Gokul Swamy, Aarti Singh +2
Learning from human preference data has emerged as the dominant paradigm for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). The two most common families of techniques -- online reinforc…
Multi-Agent Imitation Learning: Value is Easy, Regret is Hard
Jingwu Tang, Gokul Swamy, Fei Fang +1
We study a multi-agent imitation learning (MAIL) problem where we take the perspective of a learner attempting to coordinate a group of agents based on demonstrations of an expert…
REBEL: Reinforcement Learning via Regressing Relative Rewards
Zhaolin Gao, Jonathan D. Chang, Wenhao Zhan +7
While originally developed for continuous control problems, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) has emerged as the work-horse of a variety of reinforcement learning (RL) application…
The Virtues of Pessimism in Inverse Reinforcement Learning
David Wu, Gokul Swamy, J. Andrew Bagnell +2
Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) is a powerful framework for learning complex behaviors from expert demonstrations. However, it traditionally requires repeatedly solving a comp…
Hybrid Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Juntao Ren, Gokul Swamy, Zhiwei Steven Wu +2
The inverse reinforcement learning approach to imitation learning is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it can enable learning from a smaller number of expert demonstrations wi…
A Minimaximalist Approach to Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Gokul Swamy, Christoph Dann, Rahul Kidambi +2
We present Self-Play Preference Optimization (SPO), an algorithm for reinforcement learning from human feedback. Our approach is minimalist in that it does not require training a r…
Learning Shared Safety Constraints from Multi-task Demonstrations
Konwoo Kim, Gokul Swamy, Zuxin Liu +3
Regardless of the particular task we want them to perform in an environment, there are often shared safety constraints we want our agents to respect. For example, regardless of whe…
Inverse Reinforcement Learning without Reinforcement Learning
Gokul Swamy, Sanjiban Choudhury, J. Andrew Bagnell +1
Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) is a powerful set of techniques for imitation learning that aims to learn a reward function that rationalizes expert demonstrations. Unfortunat…
Sequence Model Imitation Learning with Unobserved Contexts
Gokul Swamy, Sanjiban Choudhury, J. Andrew Bagnell +1
We consider imitation learning problems where the learner's ability to mimic the expert increases throughout the course of an episode as more information is revealed. One example o…
Minimax Optimal Online Imitation Learning via Replay Estimation
Gokul Swamy, Nived Rajaraman, Matthew Peng +5
Online imitation learning is the problem of how best to mimic expert demonstrations, given access to the environment or an accurate simulator. Prior work has shown that in the infi…
Causal Imitation Learning under Temporally Correlated Noise
Gokul Swamy, Sanjiban Choudhury, J. Andrew Bagnell +1
We develop algorithms for imitation learning from policy data that was corrupted by temporally correlated noise in expert actions. When noise affects multiple timesteps of recorded…
A Critique of Strictly Batch Imitation Learning
Gokul Swamy, Sanjiban Choudhury, J. Andrew Bagnell +1
Recent work by Jarrett et al. attempts to frame the problem of offline imitation learning (IL) as one of learning a joint energy-based model, with the hope of out-performing standa…
Of Moments and Matching: A Game-Theoretic Framework for Closing the Imitation Gap
Gokul Swamy, Sanjiban Choudhury, J. Andrew Bagnell +1
We provide a unifying view of a large family of previous imitation learning algorithms through the lens of moment matching. At its core, our classification scheme is based on wheth…