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Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance on many generative tasks. Despite recent success, most diffusion models are restricted in that they only allow linear transformation of the data distribution. In contrast, broader family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Grigory Bartosh , Dmitry Vetrov , Christian A. Naesseth

Trajectory generation for mobile robots in unstructured environments faces a critical dilemma: balancing kinematic smoothness for safe execution with terminal precision for fine-grained tasks. Existing generative planners often struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jinyang Zhao , Handong Zheng , Yanjiu Zhong , Qiang Zhang , Yu Kang , Shunyu Wu

Generative policies based on diffusion and flow matching have become a dominant paradigm for visuomotor robotic control. We show that replacing the standard Gaussian source distribution with WarmPrior, a simple temporally grounded prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Sinjae Kang , Chanyoung Kim , Kaixin Wang , Li Zhao , Kimin Lee

Predicting pedestrian motion trajectories is critical for path planning and motion control of autonomous vehicles. However, accurately forecasting crowd trajectories remains a challenging task due to the inherently multimodal and uncertain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yu Liu , Zhijie Liu , Xiao Ren , You-Fu Li , He Kong

Predicting human motion plays a crucial role in ensuring a safe and effective human-robot close collaboration in intelligent remanufacturing systems of the future. Existing works can be categorized into two groups: those focusing on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Sibo Tian , Minghui Zheng , Xiao Liang

The ability to predict the future trajectories of traffic participants is crucial for the safe and efficient operation of autonomous vehicles. In this paper, a diffusion-based generative model for multi-agent trajectory prediction is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Theodor Westny , Björn Olofsson , Erik Frisk

Performing striking aerobatic flight in complex environments demands manual designs of key maneuvers in advance, which is intricate and time-consuming as the horizon of the trajectory performed becomes long. This paper presents a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yuhang Zhong , Anke Zhao , Tianyue Wu , Tingrui Zhang , Fei Gao

Effective trajectory stitching for long-horizon planning is a significant challenge in robotic decision-making. While diffusion models have shown promise in planning, they are limited to solving tasks similar to those seen in their training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yunhao Luo , Utkarsh A. Mishra , Yilun Du , Danfei Xu

In recent years, 3D vision has become a crucial field within computer vision, powering a wide range of applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, augmented reality, and medical imaging. This field relies on accurate perception,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Zhen Wang , Dongyuan Li , Yaozu Wu , Tianyu He , Jiang Bian , Renhe Jiang

We introduce Diffusion Active Learning, a novel approach that combines generative diffusion modeling with data-driven sequential experimental design to adaptively acquire data for inverse problems. Although broadly applicable, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Luis Barba , Johannes Kirschner , Tomas Aidukas , Manuel Guizar-Sicairos , Benjamín Béjar

Motion planning for multi-jointed robots is challenging. Due to the inherent complexity of the problem, most existing works decompose motion planning as easier subproblems. However, because of the inconsistent performance metrics, only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Yu Zhao , Hsien-Chung Lin , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable results in image generation, and have similarly been used to learn high-performing policies in sequential decision-making tasks. Decision-making diffusion models can be trained on lower-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Felipe Nuti , Tim Franzmeyer , João F. Henriques

Most existing motion planning algorithms assume that a map (of some quality) is fully determined prior to generating a motion plan. In many emerging applications of robotics, e.g., fast-moving agile aerial robots with constrained embedded…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Thomas Sayre-McCord , Sertac Karaman

Nominal payload ratings for articulated robots are typically derived from worst-case configurations, resulting in uniform payload constraints across the entire workspace. This conservative approach severely underutilizes the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Anuj Pasricha , Joewie Koh , Jay Vakil , Alessandro Roncone

As we deploy reinforcement learning agents to solve increasingly challenging problems, methods that allow us to inject prior knowledge about the structure of the world and effective solution strategies becomes increasingly important. In…

Accurate pedestrian trajectory prediction is crucial for ensuring safety and efficiency in autonomous driving and human-robot interaction scenarios. Earlier studies primarily utilized sufficient observational data to predict future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yuhao Luo , Yuang Zhang , Kehua Chen , Xinyu Zheng , Shucheng Zhang , Sikai Chen , Yinhai Wang

Generating human motion from textual descriptions is a challenging task. Existing methods either struggle with physical credibility or are limited by the complexities of physics simulations. In this paper, we present \emph{ReinDiffuse} that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Gaoge Han , Mingjiang Liang , Jinglei Tang , Yongkang Cheng , Wei Liu , Shaoli Huang

Humanoid robots can benefit from their similarity to the human shape by learning from humans. When humans teach other humans how to perform actions, they often demonstrate the actions, and the learning human imitates the demonstration to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Josua Spisak , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

Recent advancements in diffusion-based imitation learning, which show impressive performance in modeling multimodal distributions and training stability, have led to substantial progress in various robot learning tasks. In visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hao Ren , Yiming Zeng , Zetong Bi , Zhaoliang Wan , Junlong Huang , Hui Cheng

Multi-fingered hands are emerging as powerful platforms for performing fine manipulation tasks, including tool use. However, environmental perturbations or execution errors can impede task performance, motivating the use of recovery…