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Poster

Agnostic Interactive Imitation Learning: New Theory and Practical Algorithms

Yichen Li · Chicheng Zhang


Abstract:

We study interactive imitation learning, where a learner interactively queries a demonstrating expert for action annotations, aiming to learn a policy that has performance competitive with the expert, using as few annotations as possible.We focus on the general agnostic setting where the expert demonstration policy may not be contained in the policy class used by the learner. We propose a new oracle-efficient algorithm MFTPL-P (abbreviation for Mixed Follow the Perturbed Leader with Poisson perturbations) with provable finite-sample guarantees, under the assumption that the learner is given access to samples from some ``explorative'' distribution over states. Our guarantees hold for any policy class, which is considerably broader than prior state of the art. We further propose Bootstrap-DAgger, a more practical variant that does not require additional sample access.

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