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SeMAIL: Eliminating Distractors in Visual Imitation via Separated Models
Shenghua Wan · Yucen Wang · Minghao Shao · Ruying Chen · De-Chuan Zhan

Wed Jul 26 05:00 PM -- 06:30 PM (PDT) @ Exhibit Hall 1 #412

Model-based imitation learning (MBIL) is a popular reinforcement learning method that improves sample efficiency on high-dimension input sources, such as images and videos. Following the convention of MBIL research, existing algorithms are highly deceptive by task-irrelevant information, especially moving distractors in videos. To tackle this problem, we propose a new algorithm - named Separated Model-based Adversarial Imitation Learning (SeMAIL) - decoupling the environment dynamics into two parts by task-relevant dependency, which is determined by agent actions, and training separately. In this way, the agent can imagine its trajectories and imitate the expert behavior efficiently in task-relevant state space. Our method achieves near-expert performance on various visual control tasks with complex observations and the more challenging tasks with different backgrounds from expert observations.

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Shenghua Wan (Nanjing University)

My research interests include Reinforcement Learning.

Yucen Wang (Nanjing University)
Minghao Shao (Nanjing University)
Ruying Chen
De-Chuan Zhan (Nanjing University)

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