How to Leverage Diverse Demonstrations in Offline Imitation Learning

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Main Authors: Yue, Sheng, Liu, Jiani, Hua, Xingyuan, Ren, Ju, Lin, Sen, Zhang, Junshan, Zhang, Yaoxue
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author Yue, Sheng
Liu, Jiani
Hua, Xingyuan
Ren, Ju
Lin, Sen
Zhang, Junshan
Zhang, Yaoxue
author_facet Yue, Sheng
Liu, Jiani
Hua, Xingyuan
Ren, Ju
Lin, Sen
Zhang, Junshan
Zhang, Yaoxue
contents Offline Imitation Learning (IL) with imperfect demonstrations has garnered increasing attention owing to the scarcity of expert data in many real-world domains. A fundamental problem in this scenario is how to extract positive behaviors from noisy data. In general, current approaches to the problem select data building on state-action similarity to given expert demonstrations, neglecting precious information in (potentially abundant) $\textit{diverse}$ state-actions that deviate from expert ones. In this paper, we introduce a simple yet effective data selection method that identifies positive behaviors based on their resultant states -- a more informative criterion enabling explicit utilization of dynamics information and effective extraction of both expert and beneficial diverse behaviors. Further, we devise a lightweight behavior cloning algorithm capable of leveraging the expert and selected data correctly. In the experiments, we evaluate our method on a suite of complex and high-dimensional offline IL benchmarks, including continuous-control and vision-based tasks. The results demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming existing methods on $\textbf{20/21}$ benchmarks, typically by $\textbf{2-5x}$, while maintaining a comparable runtime to Behavior Cloning ($\texttt{BC}$).
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spellingShingle How to Leverage Diverse Demonstrations in Offline Imitation Learning
Yue, Sheng
Liu, Jiani
Hua, Xingyuan
Ren, Ju
Lin, Sen
Zhang, Junshan
Zhang, Yaoxue
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Offline Imitation Learning (IL) with imperfect demonstrations has garnered increasing attention owing to the scarcity of expert data in many real-world domains. A fundamental problem in this scenario is how to extract positive behaviors from noisy data. In general, current approaches to the problem select data building on state-action similarity to given expert demonstrations, neglecting precious information in (potentially abundant) $\textit{diverse}$ state-actions that deviate from expert ones. In this paper, we introduce a simple yet effective data selection method that identifies positive behaviors based on their resultant states -- a more informative criterion enabling explicit utilization of dynamics information and effective extraction of both expert and beneficial diverse behaviors. Further, we devise a lightweight behavior cloning algorithm capable of leveraging the expert and selected data correctly. In the experiments, we evaluate our method on a suite of complex and high-dimensional offline IL benchmarks, including continuous-control and vision-based tasks. The results demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming existing methods on $\textbf{20/21}$ benchmarks, typically by $\textbf{2-5x}$, while maintaining a comparable runtime to Behavior Cloning ($\texttt{BC}$).
title How to Leverage Diverse Demonstrations in Offline Imitation Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17476