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most citedA Survey of Imitation Learning Methods, Environments and Metrics

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cs.AI2026

ASK in the Dark: Uncertainty-Gated LLM Assistance under Partial Observability

Juarez Monteiro, Nathan Gavenski, Guilherme Lima +3

Reinforcement learning agents operating under partial observability must act on incomplete information, making them natural candidates for guidance from small language models (SLMs…

cs.AI2026

When in Doubt, Plan It Out: Committed Small Language Model Deliberation for Reactive Reinforcement Learning

Nathan Gavenski, Juarez Monteiro, Francisco Galuppo +2

Reinforcement Learning (RL) policies often degrade in unfamiliar environments because they lack explicit deliberation. We propose Plan, Align, Commit, Think (PACT), a hybrid archit…

cs.AI2026

Zero-Shot Goal Recognition with Large Language Models

Kin Max Piamolini Gusmão, Nathan Gavenski, Nir Oren +1

Large language models have recently reached near-parity with classical planners on well-known planning domains, yet this competence relies on world-knowledge exploitation rather th…

cs.AI2026

Online Goal Recognition using Path Signature and Dynamic Time Warping

Douglas Tesch, Nathan Gavenski, Leonardo Amado +2

Online goal recognition in continuous domains poses two central challenges: efficiently encoding large trajectories and effectively comparing them. Recent work addresses these chal…

cs.AI2026

When to ASK: Uncertainty-Gated Language Assistance for Reinforcement Learning

Juarez Monteiro, Nathan Gavenski, Gianlucca Zuin +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents often struggle with out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios, leading to high uncertainty and random behavior. While language models (LMs) contain val…

cs.AI2026

Beyond Mimicry: Toward Lifelong Adaptability in Imitation Learning

Nathan Gavenski, Felipe Meneguzzi, Odinaldo Rodrigues

Imitation learning stands at a crossroads: despite decades of progress, current imitation learning agents remain sophisticated memorisation machines, excelling at replay but failin…

cs.LG2026

Towards Generalisable Imitation Learning Through Conditioned Transition Estimation and Online Behaviour Alignment

Nathan Gavenski, Matteo Leonetti, Odinaldo Rodrigues

State-of-the-art imitation learning from observation methods (ILfO) have recently made significant progress, but they still have some limitations: they need action-based supervised…

cs.LG2025

Quantifying Generalisation in Imitation Learning

Nathan Gavenski, Odinaldo Rodrigues

Imitation learning benchmarks often lack sufficient variation between training and evaluation, limiting meaningful generalisation assessment. We introduce Labyrinth, a benchmarking…

cs.LG2024

Explorative Imitation Learning: A Path Signature Approach for Continuous Environments

Nathan Gavenski, Juarez Monteiro, Felipe Meneguzzi +2

Some imitation learning methods combine behavioural cloning with self-supervision to infer actions from state pairs. However, most rely on a large number of expert trajectories to…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

A Survey of Imitation Learning Methods, Environments and Metrics

Nathan Gavenski, Felipe Meneguzzi, Michael Luck +1

Imitation learning is an approach in which an agent learns how to execute a task by trying to mimic how one or more teachers perform it. This learning approach offers a compromise…