Summary of Mail: Improving Imitation Learning with Mamba, by Xiaogang Jia et al.
MaIL: Improving Imitation Learning with Mamba
by Xiaogang Jia, Qian Wang, Atalay Donat, Bowen Xing, Ge Li, Hongyi Zhou, Onur Celik, Denis Blessing, Rudolf Lioutikov, Gerhard Neumann
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Robotics (cs.RO)
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| Summary difficulty | Written by | Summary |
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary MaIL, a novel imitation learning architecture, offers an alternative to Transformer-based policies. It leverages Mamba, a state-space model that selectively focuses on key features of the data. MaIL mitigates overfitting and enhances generalization by reducing model complexity, making it effective even with limited data. Evaluations on the LIBERO benchmark show MaIL outperforms Transformers when working with limited data and matches their performance when using the full dataset. Additionally, MaIL’s effectiveness is validated through its superior performance in three real robot experiments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MaIL is a new way to learn from examples. It’s like training a student by showing them how to do things correctly. This method helps computers learn better even with small amounts of information. Right now, other methods are good at learning when they have lots of data, but they can struggle if they don’t have enough. MaIL is different because it focuses on the most important parts of the information and ignores the rest. This makes it more accurate and able to make good decisions even with limited data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generalization » Overfitting » Transformer
