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Diffusion-based methods have been acknowledged as a powerful paradigm for end-to-end visuomotor control in robotics. Most existing approaches adopt a Diffusion Policy in U-Net architecture (DP-U), which, while effective, suffers from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Linzhi Wu , Aoran Mei , Xiyue Wang , Guo-Niu Zhu , Zhongxue Gan

The ability to accurately predict others' behavior is central to the safety and efficiency of interactive robotics. Unfortunately, robots often lack access to key information on which these predictions may hinge, such as other agents'…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Haimin Hu , David Isele , Sangjae Bae , Jaime F. Fisac

This work presents a diffusion transformer framework for data-driven structural topology optimization that combines the accuracy of physics-based methods with the efficiency of generative deep learning. Conventional approaches such as the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Aaron Lutheran , Srijan Das , Alireza Tabarraei

Imitation learning with diffusion models has advanced robotic control by capturing the multi-modal action distributions. However, existing methods typically treat observations only as high-level conditions to the denoising network, rather…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zhaoyang Liu , Mokai Pan , Zhongyi Wang , Kaizhen Zhu , Haotao Lu , Haipeng Zhang , Jingya Wang , Ye Shi

Adapting a pre-trained foundation model on downstream tasks should ensure robustness against distribution shifts without the need to retrain the whole model. Although existing weight interpolation methods are simple yet effective, we argue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Changdae Oh , Yixuan Li , Kyungwoo Song , Sangdoo Yun , Dongyoon Han

Decision-making in robotics using denoising diffusion processes has increasingly become a hot research topic, but end-to-end policies perform poorly in tasks with rich contact and have limited controllability. This paper proposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Dexin Wang , Chunsheng Liu , Faliang Chang , Yichen Xu

Diffusion Transformers rely on static patchify tokenization, assigning the same token budget to smooth backgrounds, detailed object regions, noisy early timesteps, and late-stage refinements. We introduce the Dynamic Chunking Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Akash Haridas , Utkarsh Saxena , Parsa Ashrafi Fashi , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Vikram Appia , Emad Barsoum

In mathematical reasoning, data selection strategies predominantly rely on static, externally defined metrics, which fail to adapt to the evolving capabilities of models during training. This misalignment limits the efficiency of Supervised…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jun Rao , Xuebo Liu , Hexuan Deng , Zepeng Lin , Zixiong Yu , Jiansheng Wei , Xiaojun Meng , Min Zhang

This paper tackles the task of goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects. This task is highly challenging due to its complex dynamics (introduced by object deformation and high-speed action) and strict task requirements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Cheng Chi , Benjamin Burchfiel , Eric Cousineau , Siyuan Feng , Shuran Song

Decision making in multi-agent systems (MAS) is a great challenge due to enormous state and joint action spaces as well as uncertainty, making centralized control generally infeasible. Decentralized control offers better scalability and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Thomy Phan , Kyrill Schmid , Lenz Belzner , Thomas Gabor , Sebastian Feld , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Contact-rich manipulation is central to many everyday human activities, requiring continuous adaptation to contact uncertainty and external disturbances through multi-modal perception, particularly vision and tactile feedback. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Teng Xue , Alberto Rigo , Bingjian Huang , Jiayi Shen , Zhengtong Xu , Nick Colonnese , Amirhossein H. Memar

Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) requires a robust read/write policy in conjunction with a high-quality translation model. Traditional methods rely on either a fixed wait-$k$ policy coupled with a standalone wait-$k$ translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Libo Zhao , Kai Fan , Wei Luo , Jing Wu , Shushu Wang , Ziqian Zeng , Zhongqiang Huang

Adapting pretrained multi-modal models to evolving test-time distributions, known as multi-modal test-time adaptation, presents a significant challenge. Existing methods frequently encounter negative transfer in the unbiased modality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yongbo He , Zirun Guo , Tao Jin

The surge in generative AI workloads has created a need for scalable inference systems that can flexibly harness both GPUs and specialized accelerators while containing operational costs. This paper proposes a hardware-agnostic control loop…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yahav Biran , Imry Kissos

Diffusion-based policies have recently shown strong results in robot manipulation, but their extension to multi-task scenarios is hindered by the high cost of scaling model size and demonstrations. We introduce Skill Mixture-of-Experts…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Ce Hao , Xuanran Zhai , Yaohua Liu , Harold Soh

Learning control policies to perform complex robotics tasks from human preference data presents significant challenges. On the one hand, the complexity of such tasks typically requires learning policies to perform a variety of subtasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Utsav Singh , Souradip Chakraborty , Wesley A. Suttle , Brian M. Sadler , Vinay P Namboodiri , Amrit Singh Bedi

Imitation learning is an efficient method for teaching robots a variety of tasks. Diffusion Policy, which uses a conditional denoising diffusion process to generate actions, has demonstrated superior performance, particularly in learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zhuoqun Chen , Xiu Yuan , Tongzhou Mu , Hao Su

Descriptor systems arise naturally in real-world applications governed by algebraic constraints, such as power networks, robotics and chemical processes. When a descriptor model contains a nontrivial nilpotent block, the discrete-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Yunxiang Ma , Yibo Wang , Zhongmei Li , Chao Shang

This research considers the ranking and selection with input uncertainty. The objective is to maximize the posterior probability of correctly selecting the best alternative under a fixed simulation budget, where each alternative is measured…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Hui Xiao , Zhihong Wei

Redundant manipulators, with their higher Degrees of Freedom (DoFs), offer enhanced kinematic performance and versatility, making them suitable for applications like manufacturing, surgical robotics, and human-robot collaboration. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xudong Mou , Xiaohan Zhang , Tiejun Wang , Tianyu Wo , Cangbai Xu , Ningbo Gu , Rui Wang , Xudong Liu