SD2AIL: Adversarial Imitation Learning from Synthetic Demonstrations via Diffusion Models

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Autori principali: Li, Pengcheng, Fang, Qiang, Zhao, Tong, Lan, Yixing, Xu, Xin
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Li, Pengcheng
Fang, Qiang
Zhao, Tong
Lan, Yixing
Xu, Xin
author_facet Li, Pengcheng
Fang, Qiang
Zhao, Tong
Lan, Yixing
Xu, Xin
contents Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) is a dominant framework in imitation learning that infers rewards from expert demonstrations to guide policy optimization. Although providing more expert demonstrations typically leads to improved performance and greater stability, collecting such demonstrations can be challenging in certain scenarios. Inspired by the success of diffusion models in data generation, we propose SD2AIL, which utilizes synthetic demonstrations via diffusion models. We first employ a diffusion model in the discriminator to generate synthetic demonstrations as pseudo-expert data that augment the expert demonstrations. To selectively replay the most valuable demonstrations from the large pool of (pseudo-) expert demonstrations, we further introduce a prioritized expert demonstration replay strategy (PEDR). The experimental results on simulation tasks demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our method. In particular, in the Hopper task, our method achieves an average return of 3441, surpassing the state-of-the-art method by 89. Our code will be available at https://github.com/positron-lpc/SD2AIL.
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spellingShingle SD2AIL: Adversarial Imitation Learning from Synthetic Demonstrations via Diffusion Models
Li, Pengcheng
Fang, Qiang
Zhao, Tong
Lan, Yixing
Xu, Xin
Machine Learning
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Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) is a dominant framework in imitation learning that infers rewards from expert demonstrations to guide policy optimization. Although providing more expert demonstrations typically leads to improved performance and greater stability, collecting such demonstrations can be challenging in certain scenarios. Inspired by the success of diffusion models in data generation, we propose SD2AIL, which utilizes synthetic demonstrations via diffusion models. We first employ a diffusion model in the discriminator to generate synthetic demonstrations as pseudo-expert data that augment the expert demonstrations. To selectively replay the most valuable demonstrations from the large pool of (pseudo-) expert demonstrations, we further introduce a prioritized expert demonstration replay strategy (PEDR). The experimental results on simulation tasks demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our method. In particular, in the Hopper task, our method achieves an average return of 3441, surpassing the state-of-the-art method by 89. Our code will be available at https://github.com/positron-lpc/SD2AIL.
title SD2AIL: Adversarial Imitation Learning from Synthetic Demonstrations via Diffusion Models
topic Machine Learning
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18583