Imitation Learning and Inverse RL Reading List

Curated by Mouhssine Rifaki | Stanford Electrical Engineering | Last updated April 2026

Learning from demonstrations instead of rewards. From behavioral cloning to modern adversarial imitation.

1. A Reduction of Imitation Learning and Structured Prediction to No-Regret Online Learning
   Ross, Gordon, Bagnell. AISTATS 2011.
2. Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning
   Ho and Ermon. NeurIPS 2016.
3. Learning Robust Rewards with Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning
   Fu, Luo, Levine. ICLR 2018.
4. Algorithms for Inverse Reinforcement Learning
   Ng and Russell. ICML 2000.
5. Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning
   Ziebart et al.. AAAI 2008.
6. An Algorithmic Perspective on Imitation Learning
   Osa et al.. Foundations and Trends in Robotics 2018.
7. Efficient Reductions for Imitation Learning
   Ross and Bagnell. AISTATS 2010.
8. Behavioral Cloning from Observation
   Torabi, Warnell, Stone. AAAI 2019.
9. Implicit Behavioral Cloning
   Florence et al.. CoRL 2022.
10. Modeling Strong and Human-Like Gameplay with KL-Regularized Search
    Jacob et al.. ICML 2022.