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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…

Efficient planning in high-dimensional spaces, such as those involving deformable objects, requires computationally tractable yet sufficiently expressive dynamics models. This paper introduces a method that automatically generates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Alex LaGrassa , Zixuan Huang , Dmitry Berenson , Oliver Kroemer

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

Map matching for sparse trajectories is a fundamental problem for many trajectory-based applications, e.g., traffic scheduling and traffic flow analysis. Existing methods for map matching are generally based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chenxu Han , Sean Bin Yang , Jilin Hu

The widespread use of GPS devices has driven advances in spatiotemporal data mining, enabling machine learning models to simulate human decision making and generate realistic trajectories, addressing both data collection costs and privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Zhiyang Zhang , Ningcong Chen , Xin Zhang , Yanhua Li , Shen Su , Hui Lu , Jun Luo

World models aim to predict plausible futures consistent with past observations, a capability central to planning and decision-making in reinforcement learning. Yet, existing architectures face a fundamental memory trade-off: transformers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Sebastian Stapf , Pablo Acuaviva Huertos , Aram Davtyan , Paolo Favaro

Diffusion models have recently been successfully applied to a wide range of robotics applications for learning complex multi-modal behaviors from data. However, prior works have mostly been confined to single-robot and small-scale…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Yorai Shaoul , Itamar Mishani , Shivam Vats , Jiaoyang Li , Maxim Likhachev

Diffusion models have recently emerged as effective generative frameworks for trajectory optimization, capable of producing high-quality and diverse solutions. However, training these models in a purely data-driven manner without explicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Anjian Li , Ryne Beeson

Diffusion models, which leverage stochastic processes to capture complex data distributions effectively, have shown their performance as generative models, achieving notable success in image-related tasks through iterative denoising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Toshihide Ubukata , Jialong Li , Kenji Tei

Swarm robotic trajectory planning faces challenges in computational efficiency, scalability, and safety, particularly in complex, obstacle-dense environments. To address these issues, we propose SwarmDiff, a hierarchical and scalable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Kang Ding , Chunxuan Jiao , Yunze Hu , Kangjie Zhou , Pengying Wu , Yao Mu , Chang Liu

Large pretrained diffusion models have demonstrated impressive generation capabilities and have been adapted to various downstream tasks. However, unlike Large Language Models (LLMs) that can learn multiple tasks in a single model based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ming Tao , Bing-Kun Bao , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Interactive decision-making is essential in applications such as autonomous driving, where the agent must infer the behavior of nearby human drivers while planning in real-time. Traditional predict-then-act frameworks are often insufficient…

Diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model with high quality samples, with intriguing properties such as mode coverage and high flexibility. They have also been shown to be effective inverse problem solvers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Dohoon Ryu , Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

In this paper, we propose Diffusion Domain Expansion (DDE), a method that efficiently extends pre-trained diffusion models to generate larger objects and handle more complex conditioning beyond their original capabilities. Our method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Egor Lifar , Semyon Savkin , Timur Garipov , Shangyuan Tong , Tommi Jaakkola

In this work, we present DiPPeR, a novel and fast 2D path planning framework for quadrupedal locomotion, leveraging diffusion-driven techniques. Our contributions include a scalable dataset generator for map images and corresponding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jianwei Liu , Maria Stamatopoulou , Dimitrios Kanoulas

We present HiDe, a novel hierarchical reinforcement learning architecture that successfully solves long horizon control tasks and generalizes to unseen test scenarios. Functional decomposition between planning and low-level control is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Sammy Christen , Lukas Jendele , Emre Aksan , Otmar Hilliges

Developing safe automated vehicles that can be proactive, safe, and comfortable in mixed traffic requires improved planning methods that are risk-averse and that account for predictions of the motion of other road users. To consider these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Chris van der Ploeg , Robin Smit , Arjan Teerhuis , Emilia Silvas

End-to-end backpropagation requires storing activations throughout all layers, creating memory bottlenecks that limit model scalability. Existing block-wise training methods offer means to alleviate this problem, but they rely on ad-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Makoto Shing , Masanori Koyama , Takuya Akiba

Hierarchical structures exhibit critical features across multiple scales. However, designing multiscale structures demands significant computational resources, and ensuring connectivity between microstructures remains a key challenge. To…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jingxuan Feng , Lili Wang , Xiaoya Zhai , Kai Chen , Wenming Wu , Ligang Liu , Xiao-Ming Fu

Diffusion models have achieved impressive success in high-fidelity image generation but suffer from slow sampling due to their inherently iterative denoising process. While recent one-step methods accelerate inference by learning direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hanru Bai , Weiyang Ding , Difan Zou