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Poster

Random Expert Distillation: Imitation Learning via Expert Policy Support Estimation

Ruohan Wang · Carlo Ciliberto · Pierluigi Vito Amadori · Yiannis Demiris

Pacific Ballroom #39

Keywords: [ Deep Reinforcement Learning ] [ Robotics ]


Abstract:

We consider the problem of imitation learning from a finite set of expert trajectories, without access to reinforcement signals. The classical approach of extracting the expert's reward function via inverse reinforcement learning, followed by reinforcement learning is indirect and may be computationally expensive. Recent generative adversarial methods based on matching the policy distribution between the expert and the agent could be unstable during training. We propose a new framework for imitation learning by estimating the support of the expert policy to compute a fixed reward function, which allows us to re-frame imitation learning within the standard reinforcement learning setting. We demonstrate the efficacy of our reward function on both discrete and continuous domains, achieving comparable or better performance than the state of the art under different reinforcement learning algorithms.

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