An Algorithmic Perspective on Imitation Learning

Understand

As robots and other intelligent agents move from simple environments and problems to more complex, unstructured settings, manually programming their behavior has become increasingly challenging and expensive.

• Often, it is easier for a teacher to demonstrate a desired behavior rather than attempt to manually engineer it.
• This process of learning from demonstrations, and the study of algorithms to do so, is called imitation learning.
• This work provides an introduction to imitation learning.