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Learning From Human Demonstration

Learning From Human Demonstration is a subfield of Learning From Demonstration that specifically involves the acquisition of behavioral policies or task knowledge by machines through the observation and interpretation of human-generated action sequences, distinguished by its exclusive focus on human agents as demonstrators rather than synthetic or simulated sources.

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2017–2026

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Learning From Human Demonstrations

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486

On Learning, Representing, and Generalizing a Task in a Humanoid Robot

Sylvain Calinon, F. Guenter, Aude Billard · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics) · 2007 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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Recent Advances in Robot Learning from Demonstration

Harish Ravichandar, Athanasios Polydoros, Sonia Chernova et al. · Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2019 · 718 citations · Full text

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Learning and generalization of motor skills by learning from demonstration

Peter Pástor, H. Hoffmann, Tamim Asfour et al. · 2009 · 710 citations

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DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning

Daya Guo, Dejian Yang, Haowei Zhang et al. · Nature · 2025 · 568 citations · Full text

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Your wish is my command: programming by example

Choice Reviews Online · 2001 · 500 citations

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Authors

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  1. AB
    Aude Billard

    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

    19 publications · 2.8K citations

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  2. SC
    Sonia Chernova

    Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

    14 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. SC
    Sylvain Calinon

    Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland

    11 publications · 1.6K citations

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  4. RD
    Rüdiger Dillmann

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

    9 publications · 560 citations

    9

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  5. AU
    Aleš Ude

    Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

    7 publications · 238 citations

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Institutions

400

  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    19 h-index

    44 publications

    2.3K citations

  2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    16 h-index

    38 publications

    6.4K citations

  3. Georgia Institute of Technology

    Atlanta, United States

    14 h-index

    44 publications

    3K citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    13 h-index

    34 publications

    2.5K citations

  5. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

    Karlsruhe, Germany

    12 h-index

    40 publications

    2.8K citations

  6. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    11 h-index

    27 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    11 h-index

    39 publications

    2.2K citations

  8. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    16 publications

    515 citations

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  1. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 30 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

    13 publications · 370 citations

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  3. Robotics and Autonomous Systems

    10 publications · 559 citations

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  4. Journal of comparative psychology

    7 publications · 488 citations

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  5. The International Journal of Robotics Research

    IJRR · 6 publications · 662 citations

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