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arxiv: 2606.22056 · v1 · pith:AL5DHXQZnew · submitted 2026-06-20 · 💻 cs.LG

Provably Efficient Policy-Reward Co-Pretraining for Adversarial Imitation Learning

Tian Xu , Zexuan Chen , Zhilong Zhang , Yi-Chen Li , Chenyang Wang , Lei Yuan , Yang Yu This is my paper

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keywords adversarial imitation learningpolicy pretrainingreward pretrainingimitation gap boundbehavioral cloningreward shapingreinforcement learning
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CoPT-AIL proves that co-pretraining policy and reward via behavioral cloning tightens the imitation gap bound in adversarial imitation learning.

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The paper shows that standard adversarial imitation learning suffers from reward errors even after policy pretraining. It identifies that pretraining only the policy leaves reward suboptimality as the main issue. By linking expert policies to shaping rewards, it proposes co-pretraining both through one behavioral cloning step. This CoPT-AIL method is proven to have a better imitation gap bound than regular AIL. The result means fewer environment interactions are needed to achieve good imitation.

Core claim

Through reward shaping analysis, the paper establishes a connection between expert policies and shaping rewards that allows a single BC procedure to pretrain both policy and reward. CoPT-AIL then achieves an improved imitation gap bound over standard AIL, providing the first theoretical guarantee for pretraining benefits in AIL.

What carries the argument

The reward shaping analysis that reveals a fundamental connection between expert policies and shaping rewards, enabling the single BC co-pretraining procedure.

Load-bearing premise

Reward error is the dominant source of suboptimality after policy pretraining alone, and expert policies connect directly to shaping rewards in a way that justifies joint pretraining via one BC step.

What would settle it

An experiment or calculation showing that the imitation gap bound under CoPT-AIL is no tighter than under standard AIL, or that reward error does not remain the leading source of suboptimality after policy pretraining.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.22056 by Chenyang Wang, Lei Yuan, Tian Xu, Yang Yu, Yi-Chen Li, Zexuan Chen, Zhilong Zhang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of CoPT-AIL. Stage 1 (Policy-Reward Co-Pretraining): A BC policy π BC is trained on expert demonstrations and used to jointly initialize both the AIL policy and reward function. Stage 2 (Online AIL Fine-Tuning): The co-pretrained policy and reward are fine-tuned through standard online AIL via environment interaction. Yue et al. (2024) builds on the closed-form solution of the GAIL reward func… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Learning curves with respect to online environment interactions on 8 DMControl tasks. Here the x-axis is the number of environment interactions and the y-axis is the return. policy and the reward produces a strong initialization that accelerates the subsequent AIL process. To our knowledge, Theorem 1 provides the first theoretical guarantee for the performance benefits of pretraining in AIL. 5. Related Wor… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Learning curves with respect to online environment interactions on 8 DMControl tasks. Here the x-axis is the number of environment interactions and the y-axis is the return. mental setup below, with detailed information available in Appendix C. The implementation of CoPT-AIL is available at https://github.com/LAMDA-RL/CoPT-AIL. 6.1. Experiment Setup Environment. We conduct experiments across 8 tasks from t… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Learning curves of CoPT-AIL and the other baselines under different numbers of expert trajectories. Here the x-axis is the number of environment interactions and the y-axis is the return. 26 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Learning curves of CoPT-AIL with different regularization coefficient β. Here the x-axis is the number of environment interactions and the y-axis is the return. D.1. Sensitivity Analysis D.1.1. SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS ON THE NUMBER OF DEMONSTRATIONS We conduct a sensitivity analysis on the number of expert trajectories N in DE. Specifically, we evaluate CoPT-AIL and other baselines with N ∈ {5, 10, 15, 20}, a… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Gradient cosine similarity of reward pre-training and fine-tuning objectives in CoPT-AIL. Here the x-axis is the number of environment interactions and the y-axis is the gradient cosine similarity. 0 200k 400k # Reward Gradient Step 1 0 1 2 3 Reward Gap Hopper Stand 0 100k 200k # Reward Gradient Step 2500 0 2500 5000 7500 10000 12500 15000 Cartpole Swingup CoPT-AIL [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Reward gaps between expert data and replay data during the entire reward learning procedure in CoPT-AIL. Here the x-axis is the number of reward gradient steps and the y-axis is the reward gap E(s,a)∼DE [r(s, a)] − E(s,a)∼Dreplay [r(s, a)]. The first 100K reward gradient steps correspond to the reward pre-training procedure while the remaining gradient steps correspond to the reward fine-tuning procedure. … view at source ↗
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Adversarial imitation learning (AIL) achieves high-quality imitation compared to behavioral cloning (BC), but demands substantial online environment interaction. Recent empirical work has explored initializing AIL algorithms with BC pretrained policies to address this limitation, yet a rigorous theoretical understanding of pretraining's role in AIL remains elusive. This paper provides a systematic theoretical analysis and introduces principled pretraining algorithms for accelerating AIL. We begin by analyzing AIL with policy pretraining alone, identifying reward error as the dominant source of suboptimality. This reveals a critical and previously overlooked gap: the absence of reward pretraining. Motivated by this finding, we develop a principled policy-reward co-pretraining approach grounded in a reward shaping analysis. Our analysis uncovers a fundamental connection between expert policies and shaping rewards, which naturally gives rise to CoPT-AIL, an approach that jointly pretrains both policy and reward through a single BC procedure. We prove that CoPT-AIL achieves an improved imitation gap bound over standard AIL, establishing the first theoretical guarantee for the benefits of pretraining in AIL. Experimental results confirm CoPT-AIL's superior performance over existing AIL methods.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper analyzes AIL with policy pretraining alone and identifies reward error as the dominant suboptimality term via a decomposition. It then invokes a fundamental connection between expert policies and shaping rewards to motivate CoPT-AIL, a method that performs joint policy-reward pretraining via a single BC run. The central result is a proof that CoPT-AIL yields a strictly improved imitation-gap bound relative to standard AIL, claimed as the first theoretical guarantee for pretraining benefits in AIL; experiments are reported to support the claim.

Significance. If the improved bound holds under the stated conditions, the work supplies the first rigorous justification for why and how pretraining accelerates AIL, directly addressing the sample-efficiency bottleneck. The reduction of two pretraining objectives to a single BC procedure is a clean algorithmic contribution that could be adopted in practice.

major comments (3)
  1. [Suboptimality decomposition after policy pretraining] The suboptimality decomposition after policy pretraining (the section analyzing AIL with policy pretraining alone) asserts that reward error is the leading term, yet the manuscript provides no explicit quantitative comparison of the remaining terms (e.g., via concrete bounds or a numerical example) that would confirm dominance outside the abstract claim.
  2. [Reward shaping analysis and CoPT-AIL derivation] The reward-shaping analysis invokes a 'fundamental connection' between expert policies and shaping rewards to license the single-BC co-pretraining procedure. The manuscript does not state the precise conditions (deterministic expert, exact recovery of the potential function, etc.) under which this connection holds; without those restrictions the subsequent proof that CoPT-AIL tightens the imitation gap does not go through in the claimed generality.
  3. [Main imitation-gap theorem] The improved imitation-gap theorem (the main theoretical result) is stated relative to standard AIL, but the proof sketch does not explicitly track how the co-pretrained reward reduces the reward-error term that was identified as dominant; a direct comparison of the two bounds with the same constants would be required to establish the improvement.
minor comments (2)
  1. Notation for the shaping reward and the BC objective should be unified across the analysis and algorithm sections to avoid ambiguity when the same symbols appear in both the decomposition and the CoPT-AIL definition.
  2. [Experiments] The experimental section should report the precise pretraining data size and the number of environment steps used by the baseline AIL methods so that the claimed sample-efficiency gain can be directly verified.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We respond to each major point below and indicate the revisions that will be incorporated.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Suboptimality decomposition after policy pretraining] The suboptimality decomposition after policy pretraining (the section analyzing AIL with policy pretraining alone) asserts that reward error is the leading term, yet the manuscript provides no explicit quantitative comparison of the remaining terms (e.g., via concrete bounds or a numerical example) that would confirm dominance outside the abstract claim.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit quantitative comparison would strengthen the presentation. The revised manuscript will add a numerical example (with concrete parameter values) demonstrating the relative scale of the reward-error term versus the remaining terms in the decomposition. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Reward shaping analysis and CoPT-AIL derivation] The reward-shaping analysis invokes a 'fundamental connection' between expert policies and shaping rewards to license the single-BC co-pretraining procedure. The manuscript does not state the precise conditions (deterministic expert, exact recovery of the potential function, etc.) under which this connection holds; without those restrictions the subsequent proof that CoPT-AIL tightens the imitation gap does not go through in the claimed generality.

    Authors: The derivation relies on a deterministic expert and exact recovery of the potential function from the expert policy via behavioral cloning. The revised manuscript will explicitly list these assumptions at the start of the reward-shaping section and discuss the resulting scope of the guarantee. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Main imitation-gap theorem] The improved imitation-gap theorem (the main theoretical result) is stated relative to standard AIL, but the proof sketch does not explicitly track how the co-pretrained reward reduces the reward-error term that was identified as dominant; a direct comparison of the two bounds with the same constants would be required to establish the improvement.

    Authors: The existing proof shows the reduction occurs through the co-pretrained reward, but we concur that a direct side-by-side comparison using identical constants would improve clarity. The revised version will insert an explicit corollary that juxtaposes the two imitation-gap bounds term by term. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: theoretical proof presented as independent of pretraining inputs

full rationale

The abstract and provided excerpts describe a derivation that begins with an analysis of AIL with policy pretraining, identifies reward error as dominant, uncovers a fundamental connection via reward shaping, and then proves an improved imitation gap bound for CoPT-AIL. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are quoted that reduce the central claim or the 'fundamental connection' to the inputs by construction. The proof is framed as establishing a new theoretical guarantee rather than renaming or fitting existing quantities. The derivation is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks with no load-bearing reductions visible.

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