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Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Bingyi Liu , Jinbo He , Haiyong Shi , Enshu Wang , Weizhen Han , Jingxiang Hao , Peixi Wang , Zhuangzhuang Zhang

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

With the increasing availability of open-source robotic data, imitation learning has become a promising approach for both manipulation and locomotion. Diffusion models are now widely used to train large, generalized policies that predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Shashank Hegde , Satyajeet Das , Gautam Salhotra , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Diffusion models, praised for their success in generative tasks, are increasingly being applied to robotics, demonstrating exceptional performance in behavior cloning. However, their slow generation process stemming from iterative denoising…

Motion generation in cluttered, dense, and dynamic environments is a central topic in robotics, rendered as a multi-objective decision-making problem. Current approaches trade-off between safety and performance. On the one hand, reactive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Kay Hansel , Julen Urain , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Robotic manipulation tasks often rely on static cameras for perception, which can limit flexibility, particularly in scenarios like robotic surgery and cluttered environments where mounting static cameras is impractical. Ideally, robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xiatao Sun , Francis Fan , Yinxing Chen , Daniel Rakita

Generative model-based policies have shown strong performance in imitation-based robotic manipulation by learning action distributions from demonstrations. However, in long-horizon tasks, visually similar observations often recur across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuxuan Hu , Xiangyu Chen , Chuhao Zhou , Yuxi Liu , Gen Li , Jindou Jia , Jianfei Yang

The ability to learn multi-modal action distributions is indispensable for robotic manipulation policies to perform precise and robust control. Flow-based generative models have recently emerged as a promising solution to learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Guowei Zou , Haitao Wang , Hejun Wu , Yukun Qian , Yuhang Wang , Weibing Li

We present AnchorDP3, a diffusion policy framework for dual-arm robotic manipulation that achieves state-of-the-art performance in highly randomized environments. AnchorDP3 integrates three key innovations: (1) Simulator-Supervised Semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ziyan Zhao , Ke Fan , He-Yang Xu , Ning Qiao , Bo Peng , Wenlong Gao , Dongjiang Li , Hui Shen

This paper focuses on enhancing the grasping precision and generalization of manipulation policies learned via imitation learning. Diffusion-based policy learning methods have recently become the mainstream approach for robotic manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Enda Xiang , Haoxiang Ma , Xinzhu Ma , Zicheng Liu , Di Huang

Learning robot policies that capture multimodality in the training data has been a long-standing open challenge for behavior cloning. Recent approaches tackle the problem by modeling the conditional action distribution with generative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Andrea Rosasco , Federico Ceola , Giulia Pasquale , Lorenzo Natale

The increasing complexity of tasks in robotics demands efficient strategies for multitask and continual learning. Traditional models typically rely on a universal policy for all tasks, facing challenges such as high computational costs and…

Diffusion policies are powerful visuomotor models for robotic manipulation, yet they often fail to generalize to manipulators or end-effectors unseen during training and struggle to accommodate new task requirements at inference time.…

Diffusion-based policies have shown impressive performance in robotic manipulation tasks while struggling with out-of-domain distributions. Recent efforts attempted to enhance generalization by improving the visual feature encoding for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shijie Wu , Yihang Zhu , Yunao Huang , Kaizhen Zhu , Jiayuan Gu , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi , Jingya Wang

We propose DemoDiffusion, a simple method for enabling robots to perform manipulation tasks by imitating a single human demonstration, without requiring task-specific training or paired human-robot data. Our approach is based on two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Sungjae Park , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Shubham Tulsiani

Diffusion policies generate robot motions by learning to denoise action-space trajectories conditioned on observations. These observations are commonly streams of RGB images, whose high dimensionality includes substantial task-irrelevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xiatao Sun , Yinxing Chen , Daniel Rakita

End-to-end autonomous driving remains constrained by the difficulty of producing adaptive, robust, and interpretable decision-making across diverse scenarios. Existing methods often collapse diverse driving behaviors, lack long-horizon…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chengkai Xu , Jiaqi Liu , Yicheng Guo , Peng Hang , Jian Sun

Autonomous manipulation systems have achieved remarkable capabilities, yet the integration of human expertise with diffusion-based policies in shared control remains relatively unexplored. In this paper, we propose Human-In-The-Loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Riley Zilka , Sergey Khlynovskiy , Allie Wang , Martin Jagersand

Hierarchical policies for language-conditioned manipulation decompose tasks into subgoals, where a high-level planner guides a low-level controller. However, these hierarchical agents often fail because the planner generates subgoals…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Clemence Grislain , Olivier Sigaud , Mohamed Chetouani

Diffusion Policies are effective at learning closed-loop manipulation policies from human demonstrations but generalize poorly to novel arrangements of objects in 3D space, hurting real-world performance. To address this issue, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Xupeng Zhu , Fan Wang , Robin Walters , Jane Shi