Diffusion-Reward Adversarial Imitation Learning

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Main Authors: Lai, Chun-Mao, Wang, Hsiang-Chun, Hsieh, Ping-Chun, Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank, Chen, Min-Hung, Sun, Shao-Hua
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author Lai, Chun-Mao
Wang, Hsiang-Chun
Hsieh, Ping-Chun
Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank
Chen, Min-Hung
Sun, Shao-Hua
author_facet Lai, Chun-Mao
Wang, Hsiang-Chun
Hsieh, Ping-Chun
Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank
Chen, Min-Hung
Sun, Shao-Hua
contents Imitation learning aims to learn a policy from observing expert demonstrations without access to reward signals from environments. Generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) formulates imitation learning as adversarial learning, employing a generator policy learning to imitate expert behaviors and discriminator learning to distinguish the expert demonstrations from agent trajectories. Despite its encouraging results, GAIL training is often brittle and unstable. Inspired by the recent dominance of diffusion models in generative modeling, we propose Diffusion-Reward Adversarial Imitation Learning (DRAIL), which integrates a diffusion model into GAIL, aiming to yield more robust and smoother rewards for policy learning. Specifically, we propose a diffusion discriminative classifier to construct an enhanced discriminator, and design diffusion rewards based on the classifier's output for policy learning. Extensive experiments are conducted in navigation, manipulation, and locomotion, verifying DRAIL's effectiveness compared to prior imitation learning methods. Moreover, additional experimental results demonstrate the generalizability and data efficiency of DRAIL. Visualized learned reward functions of GAIL and DRAIL suggest that DRAIL can produce more robust and smoother rewards. Project page: https://nturobotlearninglab.github.io/DRAIL/
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spellingShingle Diffusion-Reward Adversarial Imitation Learning
Lai, Chun-Mao
Wang, Hsiang-Chun
Hsieh, Ping-Chun
Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank
Chen, Min-Hung
Sun, Shao-Hua
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Imitation learning aims to learn a policy from observing expert demonstrations without access to reward signals from environments. Generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) formulates imitation learning as adversarial learning, employing a generator policy learning to imitate expert behaviors and discriminator learning to distinguish the expert demonstrations from agent trajectories. Despite its encouraging results, GAIL training is often brittle and unstable. Inspired by the recent dominance of diffusion models in generative modeling, we propose Diffusion-Reward Adversarial Imitation Learning (DRAIL), which integrates a diffusion model into GAIL, aiming to yield more robust and smoother rewards for policy learning. Specifically, we propose a diffusion discriminative classifier to construct an enhanced discriminator, and design diffusion rewards based on the classifier's output for policy learning. Extensive experiments are conducted in navigation, manipulation, and locomotion, verifying DRAIL's effectiveness compared to prior imitation learning methods. Moreover, additional experimental results demonstrate the generalizability and data efficiency of DRAIL. Visualized learned reward functions of GAIL and DRAIL suggest that DRAIL can produce more robust and smoother rewards. Project page: https://nturobotlearninglab.github.io/DRAIL/
title Diffusion-Reward Adversarial Imitation Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16194