Sample efficiency is crucial for imitation learning methods to be applicable in real-world applications. Many studies improve sample by extending adversarial off-policy regardless of the fact that these extensions could either change original objective or involve complicated optimization. We revisit foundation and propose an efficient approach requires no training min-max Our formulation capita...

Individuals with autism exhibit significant deficits in imitation skills. This article reviews the importance of imitation in typical development, focusing on the social function of imitation and its role in the development of social communication skills. Second, it reviews evidence suggesting an association between imitation deficits and social communication impairments in children with autism...

Individuals with autism exhibit significant deficits in imitation skills. This paper will review the importance of imitation in typical development, focusing on the social function of imitation and its role in the development of social-communication skills. Second, it will review evidence suggesting an association between imitation deficits and social-communication impairments in children with ...

The paper examines possible reasons behind expanded outsourcing by modeling outsourcing decisions when intellectual property rights are imperfectly protected. Firms in the North develop higher quality levels of existing products and then decide whether to shift some stages of production to the South. Production in the South lowers costs but entails risk of imitation by Southern firms. In this s...

Introduction 2 Humans as the Imitative Animal 2 Conceptual Distinctions: Distinguishing Imitation From Other Forms of Social Learning 2 Explaining Human Imitation 3 The Binding Problem 3 Learning to Imitate by Operant Conditioning 3 Learning to Imitate by Associative Learning 3 Piaget’s Theory of Imitative Development 4 Imitation of Facial Acts 4 Active Intermodal Mapping Theory 5 Neural Mirror...

ijtihad, jurisprudence in religion and imitation that is fojiowing a just religious leader in divine commandments, are fundamental issues in islamic society and are necessary for continuation of divine religion. this article turns to understanding the conception, necessity, beginning and evolution of ijtihad and imitation (taqlid), if s rational and traditional reasons using quran, and also ref...

Voices can be deliberately disguised by means of human imitation or voice conversion. The question arises to what extent they can be modified by using either method. In the current paper, a set of speaker identification experiments are conducted; first, analysing some prosodic features extracted from voices of professional impersonators attempting to mimic a target voice and, second, using both...

Deferred imitation has long held a privileged position in early cognitive development, considered an early marker of representational thought with links to language development and symbolic processes. Children with autism have difficulties with several abilities generally thought to be related to deferred imitation: immediate imitation, language, and symbolic play. However, few studies have exa...

Humans and animals use imitation as a mechanism for acquiring knowledge. Recently, several algorithms and models have been proposed for imitation learning in robots and humans. However, few proposals offer a framework for imitation learning in a stochastic environment where the imitator must learn and act under realtime performance constraints. We present a probabilistic framework for imitation...