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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yuanfeng Ji , Zhe Chen , Enze Xie , Lanqing Hong , Xihui Liu , Zhaoqiang Liu , Tong Lu , Zhenguo Li , Ping Luo

Diffusion models, praised for their success in generative tasks, are increasingly being applied to robotics, demonstrating exceptional performance in behavior cloning. However, their slow generation process stemming from iterative denoising…

Striking a balance between efficiency and transparent motion is a core challenge in human-robot collaboration, as highly expressive movements often incur unnecessary time and energy costs. In collaborative environments, legibility allows a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Adrien Jacquet Crétides , Mouad Abrini , Hamed Rahimi , Mohamed Chetouani

Diffusion Policies are effective at learning closed-loop manipulation policies from human demonstrations but generalize poorly to novel arrangements of objects in 3D space, hurting real-world performance. To address this issue, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Xupeng Zhu , Fan Wang , Robin Walters , Jane Shi

Decision transformer based sequential policies have emerged as a powerful paradigm in offline reinforcement learning (RL), yet their efficacy remains constrained by the quality of static datasets and inherent architectural limitations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yihao Qin , Yuanfei Wang , Hang Zhou , Peiran Liu , Hao Dong , Yiding Ji

Diffusion policy has demonstrated promising performance in the field of robotic manipulation. However, its effectiveness has been primarily limited in short-horizon tasks, and its performance significantly degrades in the presence of image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Kefeng Huang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu , Zhe Zhang , Jiankun Wang , Lei Han

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

This paper introduces a Spiking Diffusion Policy (SDP) learning method for robotic manipulation by integrating Spiking Neurons and Learnable Channel-wise Membrane Thresholds (LCMT) into the diffusion policy model, thereby enhancing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zhixing Hou , Maoxu Gao , Hang Yu , Mengyu Yang , Chio-In Ieong

This paper focuses on enhancing the grasping precision and generalization of manipulation policies learned via imitation learning. Diffusion-based policy learning methods have recently become the mainstream approach for robotic manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Enda Xiang , Haoxiang Ma , Xinzhu Ma , Zicheng Liu , Di Huang

Contact-rich assembly is fundamental in robotics but poses significant challenges due to uncertainties in relative poses, such as misalignments and small clearances in peg-in-hole tasks. Existing approaches typically address search and…

Diffusion policies generate robot motions by learning to denoise action-space trajectories conditioned on observations. These observations are commonly streams of RGB images, whose high dimensionality includes substantial task-irrelevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xiatao Sun , Yinxing Chen , Daniel Rakita

Vision-based imitation learning has enabled impressive robotic manipulation skills, but its reliance on object appearance while ignoring the underlying 3D scene structure leads to low training efficiency and poor generalization. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenlong Xia , Jinhao Zhang , Ce Zhang , Yaojia Wang , Huizhe Li , Youmin Gong , Jie Mei

Model-based reinforcement learning methods often use learning only for the purpose of estimating an approximate dynamics model, offloading the rest of the decision-making work to classical trajectory optimizers. While conceptually simple,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Michael Janner , Yilun Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Sergey Levine

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 policies excel at learning complex action distributions for robotic visuomotor tasks, yet their iterative denoising process poses a major bottleneck for real-time deployment. Existing acceleration methods apply a fixed number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shu-Ang Yu , Feng Gao , Yi Wu , Chao Yu , Yu Wang

Diffusion policies trained via offline behavioral cloning have recently gained traction in robotic motion generation. While effective, these policies typically require a large number of trainable parameters. This model size affords powerful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Xiatao Sun , Shuo Yang , Yinxing Chen , Francis Fan , Yiyan Liang , Daniel Rakita

Recent research on robot manipulation based on Behavior Cloning (BC) has made significant progress. By combining diffusion models with BC, diffusion policiy has been proposed, enabling robots to quickly learn manipulation tasks with high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qianhao Wang , Yinqian Sun , Enmeng Lu , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

Humans can accomplish complex contact-rich tasks using vision and touch, with highly reactive capabilities such as fast response to external changes and adaptive control of contact forces; however, this remains challenging for robots.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Han Xue , Jieji Ren , Wendi Chen , Gu Zhang , Yuan Fang , Guoying Gu , Huazhe Xu , Cewu Lu

Diffusion-based trajectory planners have demonstrated strong capability for modeling the multimodal nature of human driving behavior, but their reliance on iterative stochastic sampling poses critical challenges for real-time,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruturaj Reddy , Hrishav Bakul Barua , Junn Yong Loo , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Ganesh Krishnasamy

Imitation Learning (IL) enables robots to acquire manipulation skills from expert demonstrations. Diffusion Policy (DP) models multi-modal expert behaviors but degrades when naively increasing stacked observation horizons, limiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Youqiang Gui , Yuxuan Zhou , Shen Cheng , Xinyang Yuan , Haoqiang Fan , Peng Cheng , Shuaicheng Liu