Summary of Visually Robust Adversarial Imitation Learning From Videos with Contrastive Learning, by Vittorio Giammarino et al.
Visually Robust Adversarial Imitation Learning from Videos with Contrastive Learning
by Vittorio Giammarino, James Queeney, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes an algorithm called C-LAIfO for imitation learning from videos in situations where there are visual discrepancies between the agent and expert domains. The authors analyze the problem of imitation from expert videos with visual mismatches and introduce a solution that uses contrastive learning and data augmentation to estimate a robust latent space. This latent space is then used by the algorithm to perform imitation using off-policy adversarial imitation learning. The paper conducts an ablation study to justify its design and tests C-LAIfO on high-dimensional continuous robotic tasks, demonstrating improved performance compared to baseline methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us learn from videos of experts doing things we want to do. Sometimes the videos are taken in different lighting or angles, which can make it hard for machines to learn. The authors developed an algorithm called C-LAIfO that can handle these differences and teach machines new skills. They tested their algorithm on robotic tasks and showed that it works better than other methods. This is important because it could help us create robots that can learn from humans more easily. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Data augmentation * Latent space
