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Diffusion planning is a promising method for learning high-performance policies from offline data. To avoid the impact of discrepancies between planning and reality on performance, previous works generate new plans at each time step.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaming Guo , Rui Zhang , Zerun Li , Yunkai Gao , Shaohui Peng , Siming Lan , Xing Hu , Zidong Du , Xishan Zhang , Ling Li

Diffusion models for multi-agent trajectory prediction are limited by iterative denoising, which causes inference latency that hinders their use in time-critical settings like autonomous driving. Fast-sampling variants using DDIM and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Alen Mrdovic , Qingze , Liu , Danrui Li , Mathew Schwartz , Kaidong Hu , Sejong Yoon , Mubbasir Kapadia , Vladimir Pavlovic

Route planning for navigation under partial observability plays a crucial role in modern robotics and autonomous driving. Existing route planning approaches can be categorized into two main classes: traditional autoregressive and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Gengyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Yan Yan

Automated creation of synthetic traffic scenarios is a key part of validating the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In this paper, we propose Scenario Diffusion, a novel diffusion-based architecture for generating traffic scenarios that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ethan Pronovost , Meghana Reddy Ganesina , Noureldin Hendy , Zeyu Wang , Andres Morales , Kai Wang , Nicholas Roy

Safe trajectory planning in complex environments must balance stringent collision avoidance with real-time efficiency, which is a long-standing challenge in robotics. In this work, we present a diffusion-based trajectory planning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Wule Mao , Zhouheng Li , Yunhao Luo , Yilun Du , Lei Xie

Road user trajectory prediction in dynamic environments is a challenging but crucial task for various applications, such as autonomous driving. One of the main challenges in this domain is the multimodal nature of future trajectories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Younwoo Choi , Ray Coden Mercurius , Soheil Mohamad Alizadeh Shabestary , Amir Rasouli

In tasks aiming for long-term returns, planning becomes essential. We study generative modeling for planning with datasets repurposed from offline reinforcement learning. Specifically, we identify temporal consistency in the absence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Deqian Kong , Dehong Xu , Minglu Zhao , Bo Pang , Jianwen Xie , Andrew Lizarraga , Yuhao Huang , Sirui Xie , Ying Nian Wu

Training diffusion models for audiovisual sequences allows for a range of generation tasks by learning conditional distributions of various input-output combinations of the two modalities. Nevertheless, this strategy often requires training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Gwanghyun Kim , Alonso Martinez , Yu-Chuan Su , Brendan Jou , José Lezama , Agrim Gupta , Lijun Yu , Lu Jiang , Aren Jansen , Jacob Walker , Krishna Somandepalli

The conditional diffusion model has been demonstrated as an efficient tool for learning robot policies, owing to its advancement to accurately model the conditional distribution of policies. The intricate nature of real-world scenarios,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Wenhao Yu , Jie Peng , Huanyu Yang , Junrui Zhang , Yifan Duan , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Recently, diffusion model shines as a promising backbone for the sequence modeling paradigm in offline reinforcement learning(RL). However, these works mostly lack the generalization ability across tasks with reward or dynamics change. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Fei Ni , Jianye Hao , Yao Mu , Yifu Yuan , Yan Zheng , Bin Wang , Zhixuan Liang

We present a novel perspective on goal-conditioned reinforcement learning by framing it within the context of denoising diffusion models. Analogous to the diffusion process, where Gaussian noise is used to create random trajectories that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Vineet Jain , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Aerial manipulators undergo rapid, configuration-dependent changes in inertial coupling forces and aerodynamic forces, making accurate dynamics modeling a core challenge for reliable control. Analytical models lose fidelity under these…

Generative models have attracted significant interest due to their ability to handle uncertainty by learning the inherent data distributions. However, two prominent generative models, namely Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yu Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Liangwei Yang , Philip S. Yu

We present MotionDiffuser, a diffusion based representation for the joint distribution of future trajectories over multiple agents. Such representation has several key advantages: first, our model learns a highly multimodal distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chiyu Max Jiang , Andre Cornman , Cheolho Park , Ben Sapp , Yin Zhou , Dragomir Anguelov

Research interest in end-to-end autonomous driving has surged owing to its fully differentiable design integrating modular tasks, i.e. perception, prediction and planing, which enables optimization in pursuit of the ultimate goal. Despite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Anqing Jiang , Yu Gao , Zhigang Sun , Yiru Wang , Jijun Wang , Jinghao Chai , Qian Cao , Yuweng Heng , Hao Jiang , Yunda Dong , Zongzheng Zhang , Xianda Guo , Hao Sun , Hao Zhao

Offline reinforcement learning methods hold the promise of learning policies from pre-collected datasets without the need to query the environment for new transitions. This setting is particularly well-suited for continuous control robotic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Xi Chen , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Tianhe Yu , Yuan Gao , Jianhao Wang , Wenzhe Li , Bin Liang , Chelsea Finn , Chongjie Zhang

This paper introduces TopoDiffuser, a diffusion-based framework for multimodal trajectory prediction that incorporates topometric maps to generate accurate, diverse, and road-compliant future motion forecasts. By embedding structural cues…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zehui Xu , Junhui Wang , Yongliang Shi , Chao Gao , Guyue Zhou

Diffusion-based planners have gained significant recent attention for their robustness and performance in long-horizon tasks. However, most existing planners rely on a fixed, pre-specified horizon during both training and inference. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

Generative diffusion models for end-to-end autonomous driving often suffer from mode collapse, tending to generate conservative and homogeneous behaviors. While DiffusionDrive employs predefined anchors representing different driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jialv Zou , Shaoyu Chen , Bencheng Liao , Zhiyu Zheng , Yuehao Song , Lefei Zhang , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Most large language models are autoregressive: they generate tokens one at a time. Discrete diffusion language models can generate multiple tokens in parallel, but sampling from them requires a denoising order: a strategy for deciding which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Daniel Israel , Tian Jin , Ellie Cheng , Guy Van den Broeck , Aditya Grover , Suvinay Subramanian , Michael Carbin