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Planning with pretrained diffusion models has emerged as a promising approach for solving test-time guided control problems. Standard gradient guidance typically performs optimally under convex, differentiable reward landscapes. However, it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hyeonseong Jeon , Cheolhong Min , Jaesik Park

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 trade-off between the quality and timeliness of adaptation is a multi-faceted challenge in engineering self-adaptive systems. Obtaining adaptation plans that fulfill system objectives with high utility and in a timely manner is the holy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Sona Ghahremani , Holger Giese

Goal-conditioned navigation models for ground robots trained using supervised learning show promising zero-shot transfer, but their collision-avoidance capability nevertheless degrades under distribution shift, i.e. environmental, robot or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Louis Dezons , Quentin Picard , Rémi Marsal , François Goulette , David Filliat

This work introduces the conditioned Vehicle Motion Diffusion (cVMD) model, a novel network architecture for highway trajectory prediction using diffusion models. The proposed model ensures the drivability of the predicted trajectory by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Marion Neumeier , Sebastian Dorn , Michael Botsch , Wolfgang Utschick

Maritime vessel maneuvers, characterized by their inherent complexity and indeterminacy, requires vessel trajectory prediction system capable of modeling the multi-modality nature of future motion states. Conventional stochastic trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Changlin Li , Yanglei Gan , Tian Lan , Yuxiang Cai , Xueyi Liu , Run Lin , Qiao Liu

Diffusion Policy is a powerful technique tool for learning end-to-end visuomotor robot control. It is expected that Diffusion Policy possesses scalability, a key attribute for deep neural networks, typically suggesting that increasing model…

Diffusion models exhibit excellent sample quality, but existing guidance methods often require additional model training or are limited to specific tasks. We revisit guidance in diffusion models from the perspective of variational inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kushagra Pandey , Farrin Marouf Sofian , Felix Draxler , Theofanis Karaletsos , Stephan Mandt

Long-term trajectory anomaly detection is a challenging problem due to the diversity and complex spatiotemporal dependencies in trajectory data. Existing trajectory anomaly detection methods fail to simultaneously consider both the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Chen Wang , Sarah Erfani , Tansu Alpcan , Christopher Leckie

We describe a robust planning method for autonomous driving that mixes normal and adversarial agent predictions output by a diffusion model trained for motion prediction. We first train a diffusion model to learn an unbiased distribution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Albert Zhao , Stefano Soatto

We introduce the first learning-based reconstructability predictor to improve view and path planning for large-scale 3D urban scene acquisition using unmanned drones. In contrast to previous heuristic approaches, our method learns a model…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Yilin Liu , Liqiang Lin , Yue Hu , Ke Xie , Chi-Wing Fu , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

We introduce Diff-Tracker, a novel approach for the challenging unsupervised visual tracking task leveraging the pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model. Our main idea is to leverage the rich knowledge encapsulated within the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zhengbo Zhang , Li Xu , Duo Peng , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Classical methods in robot motion planning, such as sampling-based and optimization-based methods, often struggle with scalability towards higher-dimensional state spaces and complex environments. Diffusion models, known for their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Edward Sandra , Lander Vanroye , Dries Dirckx , Ruben Cartuyvels , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré

Recent progress in imitation learning has been enabled by policy architectures that scale to complex visuomotor tasks, multimodal distributions, and large datasets. However, these methods often rely on learning from large amount of expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Amber Xie , Oleh Rybkin , Dorsa Sadigh , Chelsea Finn

Accurate trajectory prediction of nearby vehicles is crucial for the safe motion planning of automated vehicles in dynamic driving scenarios such as highway merging. Existing methods cannot initiate prediction for a vehicle unless observed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Sajjad Mozaffari , Mreza Alipour Sormoli , Konstantinos Koufos , Graham Lee , Mehrdad Dianati

Navigating unfamiliar environments presents significant challenges for household robots, requiring the ability to recognize and reason about novel decoration and layout. Existing reinforcement learning methods cannot be directly transferred…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yiran Qin , Ao Sun , Yuze Hong , Benyou Wang , Ruimao Zhang

Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classification and object detection. Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Mika Yagoda , Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

This paper proposes MATT-Diff: Multimodal Active Target Tracking by Diffusion Policy, a control policy for active multi-target tracking using a mobile agent. The policy enables multiple behavior modes for the agent, including exploration,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Saida Liu , Nikolay Atanasov , Shumon Koga

This paper introduces a novel approach in designing prediction horizons on a generalized predictive control for a DC/DC boost converter. This method involves constructing a closed-loop system model and assessing the impact of different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Yuan Li , Subham Sahoo , Sergio Vazquez , Yichao Zhang , Tomislav Dragicevic , Frede Blaabjerg

The goal of this paper is to develop a continuous optimization-based refinement of the reference trajectory to 'push it out' of the obstacle-occupied space in the global phase for Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicles in unknown environments. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Geesara Kulathunga , Hany Hamed , Dmitry Devitt , Alexandr Klimchik