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Reinforcement learning (RL) struggles to scale to large, combinatorial action spaces common in many real-world problems. This paper introduces a novel framework for training discrete diffusion models as highly effective policies in these…

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Diffusion-based generative models represent the current state-of-the-art for image generation. However, standard diffusion models are based on Euclidean geometry and do not translate directly to manifold-valued data. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yesukhei Jagvaral , Francois Lanusse , Rachel Mandelbaum

Acting in human environments is a crucial capability for general-purpose robots, necessitating a robust understanding of natural language and its application to physical tasks. This paper seeks to harness the capabilities of diffusion…

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Extending the translation equivariance property of convolutional neural networks to larger symmetry groups has been shown to reduce sample complexity and enable more discriminative feature learning. Further, exploiting additional symmetries…

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This paper proposes a convolution structure for learning SE(3)-equivariant features from 3D point clouds. It can be viewed as an equivariant version of kernel point convolutions (KPConv), a widely used convolution form to process point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , William A. Clark , Huei Peng

With the great success of diffusion models (DMs) in generating realistic synthetic vision data, many researchers have investigated their potential in decision-making and control. Most of these works utilized DMs to sample directly from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hanye Zhao , Xiaoshen Han , Zhengbang Zhu , Minghuan Liu , Yong Yu , De-Chuan Zhan , Weinan Zhang

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

In recent years, diffusion models have become the leading approach for distribution learning. This paper focuses on structure-preserving diffusion models (SPDM), a specific subset of diffusion processes tailored for distributions with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Haoye Lu , Spencer Szabados , Yaoliang Yu

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in image generation tasks, including image editing and video creation, representing a good understanding of the physical world. On the other line, diffusion models have also shown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Yanjiang Guo , Yucheng Hu , Jianke Zhang , Yen-Jen Wang , Xiaoyu Chen , Chaochao Lu , Jianyu Chen

One important property of DIstribution Correction Estimation (DICE) methods is that the solution is the optimal stationary distribution ratio between the optimized and data collection policy. In this work, we show that DICE-based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Liyuan Mao , Haoran Xu , Xianyuan Zhan , Weinan Zhang , Amy Zhang

Embodied agents operate in a structured world, often solving tasks with spatial, temporal, and permutation symmetries. Most algorithms for planning and model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) do not take this rich geometric structure into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Johann Brehmer , Joey Bose , Pim de Haan , Taco Cohen

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) aligns text-to-image (T2I) generation models with human preferences using pairwise preference data. Although substantial resources are expended in collecting and labeling datasets, a critical aspect is…

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Generating realistic motions for digital humans is a core but challenging part of computer animations and games, as human motions are both diverse in content and rich in styles. While the latest deep learning approaches have made…

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We propose a novel framework for adaptively learning the time-evolving solutions of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) using score-based diffusion models within a recursive Bayesian inference setting. SPDEs play a central…

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Diffusion models exhibit impressive scalability in robotic task learning, yet they struggle to adapt to novel, highly dynamic environments. This limitation primarily stems from their constrained replanning ability: they either operate at a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Xi Ye , Rui Heng Yang , Jun Jin , Yinchuan Li , Amir Rasouli

In visuomotor policy learning, diffusion-based imitation learning has become widely adopted for its ability to capture diverse behaviors. However, approaches built on ordinary and stochastic denoising processes struggle to jointly achieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Qianyou Zhao , Yuliang Shen , Xuanran Zhai , Ce Hao , Duidi Wu , Jin Qi , Jie Hu , Qiaojun Yu

In robotics, diffusion models can capture multi-modal trajectories from demonstrations, making them a transformative approach in imitation learning. However, achieving optimal performance following this regiment requires a large-scale…

We introduce SceneDiffuser, a conditional generative model for 3D scene understanding. SceneDiffuser provides a unified model for solving scene-conditioned generation, optimization, and planning. In contrast to prior works, SceneDiffuser is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Siyuan Huang , Zan Wang , Puhao Li , Baoxiong Jia , Tengyu Liu , Yixin Zhu , Wei Liang , Song-Chun Zhu

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as a promising approach for behavior cloning (BC). Diffusion policies (DP) based on DMs have elevated BC performance to new heights, demonstrating robust efficacy across diverse tasks, coupled with their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yipu Chen , Haotian Xue , Yongxin Chen

Semi-supervised object detection is crucial for 3D scene understanding, efficiently addressing the limitation of acquiring large-scale 3D bounding box annotations. Existing methods typically employ a teacher-student framework with…

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