The Pitfalls of Imitation Learning when Actions are Continuous
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The Pitfalls of Imitation Learning when Actions are Continuous The Pitfalls of Imitation Learning when Actions are Continuous Max Simchowitz 1 1 1 msimchow@andrew.cmu.edu CMU Daniel Pfrommer 2 2 2 dpfrom@mit.edu MIT Ali Jadbabaie 3 3 3 jadbabai@mit.edu MIT (July 26, 2025) Abstract We study the problem of imitating an expert demonstrator in a discrete-time, continuous state-and-action control system. We show that, even if the dynamics satisfy a control-theoretic property called exponential stability (i.e. the effects of perturbations decay exponentially quickly), and the expert is smooth and de
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