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Most Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) adopt preference alignment techniques, e.g., DPO~\citep{rafailov2024dpo}, to optimize the reward margin between a winning response ($y_w$) and a losing response ($y_l$). However, the likelihood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiaodong Wang , Jinfa Huang , Li Yuan , Peixi Peng

Distilling knowledge from human demonstrations is a promising way for robots to learn and act. Existing methods, which often rely on coarsely-aligned video pairs, are typically constrained to learning global or task-level features. As a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sicheng Xie , Haidong Cao , Zejia Weng , Zhen Xing , Haoran Chen , Shiwei Shen , Jiaqi Leng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Video understanding is fundamental to tasks such as action recognition, video reasoning, and robotic control. Early video understanding methods based on large vision-language models (LVLMs) typically adopt a single-pass reasoning paradigm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yiyang Zhou , Yangfan He , Yaofeng Su , Siwei Han , Joel Jang , Gedas Bertasius , Mohit Bansal , Huaxiu Yao

Synthetic data is crucial for advancing autonomous driving (AD) systems, yet current state-of-the-art video generation models, despite their visual realism, suffer from subtle geometric distortions that limit their utility for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Tianyi Yan , Wencheng Han , Xia Zhou , Xueyang Zhang , Kun Zhan , Cheng-zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen

Recent advances in flow matching models, particularly with reinforcement learning (RL), have significantly enhanced human preference alignment in few step text to image generators. However, existing RL based approaches for flow matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhixiong Yue , Zixuan Ni , Feiyang Ye , Jinshan Zhang , Sheng Shen , Zhenpeng Mi

We propose Flow-GRPO, the first method to integrate online policy gradient reinforcement learning (RL) into flow matching models. Our approach uses two key strategies: (1) an ODE-to-SDE conversion that transforms a deterministic Ordinary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jie Liu , Gongye Liu , Jiajun Liang , Yangguang Li , Jiaheng Liu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Wanli Ouyang

Recent studies have demonstrated the efficacy of integrating Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) into flow matching models, particularly for text-to-image and text-to-video generation. However, we find that directly applying these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jin Wang , Jianxiang Lu , Guangzheng Xu , Comi Chen , Haoyu Yang , Linqing Wang , Peng Chen , Mingtao Chen , Zhichao Hu , Longhuang Wu , Shuai Shao , Qinglin Lu , Ping Luo

Perceptual studies demonstrate that conditional diffusion models excel at reconstructing video content aligned with human visual perception. Building on this insight, we propose a video compression framework that leverages conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Fangqiu Yi , Jingyu Xu , Jiawei Shao , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling in continuous domains like image, audio, and video synthesis. However, their iterative sampling process leads to slow generation and inefficient training, challenges that are further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shivanshu Shekhar , Tong Zhang

Designing dense rewards is crucial for reinforcement learning (RL), yet in robotics it often demands extensive manual effort and lacks scalability. One promising solution is to view task progress as a dense reward signal, as it quantifies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yuyang Liu , Chuan Wen , Yihang Hu , Dinesh Jayaraman , Yang Gao

Reward engineering has long been a challenge in Reinforcement Learning (RL) research, as it often requires extensive human effort and iterative processes of trial-and-error to design effective reward functions. In this paper, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yufei Wang , Zhanyi Sun , Jesse Zhang , Zhou Xian , Erdem Biyik , David Held , Zackory Erickson

Recent progress in flow-based generative models and reinforcement learning (RL) has improved text-image alignment and visual quality. However, current RL training for flow models still has two main problems: (i) GRPO-style fixed per-prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kaijie Chen , Zhiyang Xu , Ying Shen , Zihao Lin , Yuguang Yao , Lifu Huang

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as an effective approach to aligning large language models (LLMs) to human preferences. RLHF contains three steps, i.e., human preference collecting, reward learning, and policy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Hao Lang , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li

Current deep learning results on video generation are limited while there are only a few first results on video prediction and no relevant significant results on video completion. This is due to the severe ill-posedness inherent in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Haoye Cai , Chunyan Bai , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a powerful paradigm for aligning foundation models to human values and preferences. However, current RLHF techniques cannot account for the naturally occurring differences in individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Sriyash Poddar , Yanming Wan , Hamish Ivison , Abhishek Gupta , Natasha Jaques

Recent advancements in diffusion models (DMs) have been propelled by alignment methods that post-train models to better conform to human preferences. However, these approaches typically require computation-intensive training of a base model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zejian Li , Yize Li , Chenye Meng , Zhongni Liu , Yang Ling , Shengyuan Zhang , Guang Yang , Changyuan Yang , Zhiyuan Yang , Lingyun Sun

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) methods for video generation like FlowGRPO remain far less reliable than their counterparts for language models and images. This gap arises because video generation has a complex solution space, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Mingzhe Zheng , Weijie Kong , Yue Wu , Dengyang Jiang , Yue Ma , Xuanhua He , Bin Lin , Kaixiong Gong , Zhao Zhong , Liefeng Bo , Qifeng Chen , Harry Yang

Generating realistic and controllable human motions, particularly those involving rich multi-character interactions, remains a significant challenge due to data scarcity and the complexities of modeling inter-personal dynamics. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ruihao Xi , Xuekuan Wang , Yongcheng Li , Shuhua Li , Zichen Wang , Yiwei Wang , Feng Wei , Cairong Zhao

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values and safety constraints is challenging, especially when objectives like helpfulness, truthfulness, and avoidance of harm conflict. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Xuying Li , Zhuo Li , Yuji Kosuga , Victor Bian

Most reward models for visual generation reduce rich human judgments to a single unexplained score, discarding the reasoning that underlies preference. We show that teaching reward models to produce explicit, multi-dimensional critiques…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Haozhe Wang , Cong Wei , Weiming Ren , Jiaming Liu , Fangzhen Lin , Wenhu Chen