arxivcs.LGcs.AIstat.ML2026-07-31
When Does On-Policy Interaction Help? Representational Tradeoffs in Value-Based Imitation Learning
Luca Viano, Antoine Moulin, Audrey Huang, Volkan Cevher, Philip Amortila, Dylan J. Foster
Imitation learning (IL)---training an agent to replicate expert behavior from demonstrations---underpins applications from robotics to language model training. Standard approaches such as Behavior Cloning (BC) are known to suffer from compounding errors and performance plateaus,…