<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true">Interactive Imitation Learning (IIL) enables agents to learn behaviors with human interventions, but this can be demanding for supervisors.Proposed Adaptive Intervention Mechanism (AIM) in robot-gated IIL to reduce cognitive load on supervisors.AIM uses a proxy Q-function to determine when to request human demonstrations based on agent's alignment with human actions.Proxy Q-function assigns high values for deviations and decreases as agent's performance improves, allowing real-time assessment.Expert-in-the-loop experiments show AIM reduces expert monitoring in continuous and discrete control tasks.AIM outperforms Thrifty-DAgger by 40% in terms of human take-over cost and learning efficiency.AIM identifies safety-critical states for expert intervention, leading to better quality demonstrations and reduced expert interaction.Code and demo video for AIM available at https://github.com/metadriverse/AIM.