Diverse Policies Recovering via Pointwise Mutual Information Weighted Imitation Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15910v2
• Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 05:06:36 GMT
• Title: Diverse Policies Recovering via Pointwise Mutual Information Weighted Imitation Learning
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a new principled method in recovering diverse polices from expert data. In particular, after inferring or assigning a latent style for a trajectory, we enhance the vanilla behavioral cloning by incorporating a weighting mechanism. We provide theoretical justifications for our new objective, and extensive empirical evaluations confirm the effectiveness of our method.
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• Abstract: Recovering a spectrum of diverse policies from a set of expert trajectories is an important research topic in imitation learning. After determining a latent style for a trajectory, previous diverse policies recovering methods usually employ a vanilla behavioral cloning learning objective conditioned on the latent style, treating each state-action pair in the trajectory with equal importance. Based on an observation that in many scenarios, behavioral styles are often highly relevant with only a subset of state-action pairs, this paper presents a new principled method in diverse polices recovery. In particular, after inferring or assigning a latent style for a trajectory, we enhance the vanilla behavioral cloning by incorporating a weighting mechanism based on pointwise mutual information. This additional weighting reflects the significance of each state-action pair's contribution to learning the style, thus allowing our method to focus on state-action pairs most representative of that style. We provide theoretical justifications for our new objective, and extensive empirical evaluations confirm the effectiveness of our method in recovering diverse policies from expert data.

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