Learning to Discern: Imitating Heterogeneous Human Demonstrations with Preference and Representation Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14196v1
• Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 06:08:55 GMT
• Title: Learning to Discern: Imitating Heterogeneous Human Demonstrations with Preference and Representation Learning
• Authors: Sachit Kuhar and Shuo Cheng and Shivang Chopra and Matthew Bronars and Danfei Xu
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces Learning to Discern (L2D), an offline imitation learning framework for learning from demonstrations with diverse quality and style. We show that L2D can effectively assess and learn from varying demonstrations, thereby leading to improved policy performance across a range of tasks in both simulations and on a physical robot.
• Score: 12.4468604987226
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Practical Imitation Learning (IL) systems rely on large human demonstration datasets for successful policy learning. However, challenges lie in maintaining the quality of collected data and addressing the suboptimal nature of some demonstrations, which can compromise the overall dataset quality and hence the learning outcome. Furthermore, the intrinsic heterogeneity in human behavior can produce equally successful but disparate demonstrations, further exacerbating the challenge of discerning demonstration quality. To address these challenges, this paper introduces Learning to Discern (L2D), an offline imitation learning framework for learning from demonstrations with diverse quality and style. Given a small batch of demonstrations with sparse quality labels, we learn a latent representation for temporally embedded trajectory segments. Preference learning in this latent space trains a quality evaluator that generalizes to new demonstrators exhibiting different styles. Empirically, we show that L2D can effectively assess and learn from varying demonstrations, thereby leading to improved policy performance across a range of tasks in both simulations and on a physical robot.

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