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Many robot manipulation tasks can be framed as geometric reasoning tasks, where an agent must be able to precisely manipulate an object into a position that satisfies the task from a set of initial conditions. Often, task success is defined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Ben Eisner , Yi Yang , Todor Davchev , Mel Vecerik , Jonathan Scholz , David Held

Diffusion models and flow matching have become a cornerstone of robotic imitation learning, yet they suffer from a structural inefficiency where inference is often bound to a fixed integration schedule that is agnostic to state complexity.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zunzhe Zhang , Runhan Huang , Yicheng Liu , Shaoting Zhu , Linzhan Mou , Hang Zhao

Real-world fine-tuning of dexterous manipulation policies remains challenging due to limited real-world interaction budgets and highly multimodal action distributions. Diffusion-based policies, while expressive, do not permit conservative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Chenyu Yang , Denis Tarasov , Davide Liconti , Hehui Zheng , Robert K. Katzschmann

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a crucial approach for enhancing the capabilities of large language models. However, in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, the routing mechanism often introduces instability, even leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Wenhan Ma , Hailin Zhang , Liang Zhao , Yifan Song , Yudong Wang , Zhifang Sui , Fuli Luo

Trajectory generation for mobile robots in unstructured environments faces a critical dilemma: balancing kinematic smoothness for safe execution with terminal precision for fine-grained tasks. Existing generative planners often struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jinyang Zhao , Handong Zheng , Yanjiu Zhong , Qiang Zhang , Yu Kang , Shunyu Wu

Recent advancements in generative modeling have significantly enhanced the reconstruction of audio waveforms from various representations. While diffusion models are adept at this task, they are hindered by latency issues due to their…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Peng Liu , Dongyang Dai , Zhiyong Wu

Deep generative models have achieved tremendous success in structure-based drug design in recent years, especially for generating 3D ligand molecules that bind to specific protein pocket. Notably, diffusion models have transformed ligand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Daiheng Zhang , Chengyue Gong , Qiang Liu

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

Diffusion models have been verified to be effective in generating complex distributions from natural images to motion trajectories. Recent diffusion-based methods show impressive performance in 3D robotic manipulation tasks, whereas they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Guanxing Lu , Zifeng Gao , Tianxing Chen , Wenxun Dai , Ziwei Wang , Wenbo Ding , Yansong Tang

To enable versatile robot manipulation, robots must detect task-relevant poses for different purposes from raw scenes. Currently, many perception algorithms are designed for specific purposes, which limits the flexibility of the perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Kanghyun Kim , Min Jun Kim

The wide application of flow-matching methods has greatly promoted the development of robot imitation learning. However, these methods all face the problem of high inference time. To address this issue, researchers have proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yu Fang , Xinyu Wang , Xuehe Zhang , Wanli Xue , Mingwei Zhang , Shengyong Chen , Jie Zhao

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality (HQ) images from degraded low-quality (LQ) ones by reversing the effects of degradation. Existing generative models for image restoration, including diffusion and score-based models, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Haina Qin , Wenyang Luo , Libin Wang , Dandan Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

The use of guidance to steer sampling toward desired outcomes has been widely explored within diffusion models, especially in applications such as image and trajectory generation. However, incorporating guidance during training remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Marvin Alles , Nutan Chen , Patrick van der Smagt , Botond Cseke

Diffusion models, such as diffusion policy, have achieved state-of-the-art results in robotic manipulation by imitating expert demonstrations. While diffusion models were originally developed for vision tasks like image and video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mateo Clemente , Leo Brunswic , Rui Heng Yang , Xuan Zhao , Yasser Khalil , Haoyu Lei , Amir Rasouli , Yinchuan Li

In recent years, diffusion-based generative models have demonstrated remarkable performance in speech conversion, including Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and others. However, the advantages of these models come at the cost…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Pengyu Ren , Wenhao Guan , Kaidi Wang , Peijie Chen , Qingyang Hong , Lin Li

Learning long-horizon robotic manipulation requires jointly achieving expressive behavior modeling, real-time inference, and stable execution, which remains challenging for existing generative policies. Diffusion-based approaches offer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wu Songwei , Jiang Zhiduo , Sun Wandong , Xie Guanghu , Zhao Rui , Liu Hong , Liu Yang

Generative models such as diffusion and flow-matching offer expressive policies for offline reinforcement learning (RL) by capturing rich, multimodal action distributions, but their iterative sampling introduces high inference costs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Prajwal Koirala , Cody Fleming

End-to-end learning for visual robotic manipulation is known to suffer from sample inefficiency, requiring large numbers of demonstrations. The spatial roto-translation equivariance, or the SE(3)-equivariance can be exploited to improve the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Hyunwoo Ryu , Hong-in Lee , Jeong-Hoon Lee , Jongeun Choi

Though Rectified Flows (ReFlows) with distillation offers a promising way for fast sampling, its fast inversion transforms images back to structured noise for recovery and following editing remains unsolved. This paper introduces FireFlow,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yingying Deng , Xiangyu He , Changwang Mei , Peisong Wang , Fan Tang

Distillation addresses the slow sampling problem in diffusion models by creating models with smaller size or fewer steps that approximate the behavior of high-step teachers. In this work, we propose a reinforcement learning based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Amirhossein Tighkhorshid , Zahra Dehghanian , Gholamali Aminian , Chengchun Shi , Hamid R. Rabiee