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The predominant success of diffusion models in generative modeling has spurred significant interest in understanding their theoretical foundations. In this work, we propose a feature learning framework aimed at analyzing and comparing the…

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Fine-tuning diffusion policies with reinforcement learning (RL) presents significant challenges. The long denoising sequence for each action prediction impedes effective reward propagation. Moreover, standard RL methods require millions of…

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been extensively employed in a wide range of decision-making problems, such as games and robotics. Recently, diffusion policies have shown strong potential in modeling multi-modal behaviors, enabling more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Ben Liu , Shunpeng Yang , Hua Chen

The human-like form of humanoid robots positions them uniquely to achieve the agility and versatility in motor skills that humans possess. Learning from human demonstrations offers a scalable approach to acquiring these capabilities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qiayuan Liao , Takara E. Truong , Xiaoyu Huang , Yuman Gao , Guy Tevet , Koushil Sreenath , C. Karen Liu

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

Sequence modeling approaches have shown promising results in robot imitation learning. Recently, diffusion models have been adopted for behavioral cloning in a sequence modeling fashion, benefiting from their exceptional capabilities in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xiang Li , Varun Belagali , Jinghuan Shang , Michael S. Ryoo

Learning based multi-robot path planning methods struggle to scale or generalize to changes, particularly variations in the number of robots during deployment. Most existing methods are trained on a fixed number of robots and may tolerate a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Siddharth Singh , Soumee Guha , Qing Chang , Scott Acton

We consider the problem of distributed dictionary learning, where a set of nodes is required to collectively learn a common dictionary from noisy measurements. This approach may be useful in several contexts including sensor networks.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-04-15 Pierre Chainais , Cédric Richard

Learning natural and diverse behaviors from human motion datasets remains challenging in physics-based character control. Existing conditional adversarial models often suffer from tight and biased embedding distributions where embeddings…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Nian Liu , Libin Liu , Zilong Zhang , Zi Wang , Hongzhao Xie , Tengyu Liu , Xinyi Tong , Yaodong Yang , Zhaofeng He

The performance of leaning-based perception algorithms suffer when deployed in out-of-distribution and underrepresented environments. Outdoor robots are particularly susceptible to rapid changes in visual scene appearance due to dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Peter Mortimer , Mirko Maehlisch

In many complex scenarios, robotic manipulation relies on generative models to estimate the distribution of multiple successful actions. As the diffusion model has better training robustness than other generative models, it performs well in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ye Niu , Sanping Zhou , Yizhe Li , Ye Den , Le Wang

Natural data is often organized as a hierarchical composition of features. How many samples do generative models need in order to learn the composition rules, so as to produce a combinatorially large number of novel data? What signal in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-05 Alessandro Favero , Antonio Sclocchi , Francesco Cagnetta , Pascal Frossard , Matthieu Wyart

Cloth manipulation is challenging due to its highly complex dynamics, near-infinite degrees of freedom, and frequent self-occlusions, which complicate both state estimation and dynamics modeling. Inspired by recent advances in generative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Tongxuan Tian , Haoyang Li , Bo Ai , Xiaodi Yuan , Zhiao Huang , Hao Su

We present a method that reduces, by an order of magnitude, the time and memory needed to train multi-task vision-language robotic diffusion policies. This improvement arises from a previously underexplored distinction between action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yutong Hu , Pinhao Song , Kehan Wen , Renaud Detry

Diffusion models have been successfully applied in areas such as image, video, and audio generation. Recent works show their promise for sequential decision-making and dexterous manipulation, leveraging their ability to model complex action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Maria Makarova , Qian Liu , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Recent research on robot manipulation based on Behavior Cloning (BC) has made significant progress. By combining diffusion models with BC, diffusion policiy has been proposed, enabling robots to quickly learn manipulation tasks with high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qianhao Wang , Yinqian Sun , Enmeng Lu , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

End-to-end neural approaches are becoming increasingly common in conversational scenarios due to their promising performances when provided with sufficient amount of data. In this paper, we present a novel methodology to address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Sourabh Majumdar , Serra Sinem Tekiroglu , Marco Guerini

Generalizing locomotion policies across diverse legged robots with varying morphologies is a key challenge due to differences in observation/action dimensions and system dynamics. In this work, we propose Multi-Loco, a novel unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Shunpeng Yang , Zhen Fu , Zhefeng Cao , Guo Junde , Patrick Wensing , Wei Zhang , Hua Chen

Classical methods in robot motion planning, such as sampling-based and optimization-based methods, often struggle with scalability towards higher-dimensional state spaces and complex environments. Diffusion models, known for their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Edward Sandra , Lander Vanroye , Dries Dirckx , Ruben Cartuyvels , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré

Imitation learning powered by generative models has proven effective for modeling complex single-agent behaviors. However, teaching multi-agent systems, like multiple arms or vehicles, to coordinate through imitation learning is hindered by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Lasse Peters , Laura Ferranti , Andrea Bajcsy , Javier Alonso-Mora