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In many real-world settings, agents must learn from an offline dataset gathered by some prior behavior policy. Such a setting naturally leads to distribution shift between the behavior policy and the target policy being trained - requiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Matthew Thomas Jackson , Michael Tryfan Matthews , Cong Lu , Benjamin Ellis , Shimon Whiteson , Jakob Foerster

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong generative capabilities across scientific domains, but often produce outputs that violate physical laws. We propose a new perspective by framing physics-informed generation as a sparse reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Mingze Yuan , Pengfei Jin , Na Li , Quanzheng Li

Imitation learning aims to learn a policy from observing expert demonstrations without access to reward signals from environments. Generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) formulates imitation learning as adversarial learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Chun-Mao Lai , Hsiang-Chun Wang , Ping-Chun Hsieh , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min-Hung Chen , Shao-Hua Sun

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

Diffusion-based generative methods have shown promising potential for modeling trajectories from offline reinforcement learning (RL) datasets, and hierarchical diffusion has been introduced to mitigate variance accumulation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xianghua Zeng , Hao Peng , Angsheng Li , Yicheng Pan

Diffusion models have been widely studied for removing unsafe content learned during pre-training. Existing methods require expensive supervised data, either unsafe-text paired with safe-image groundtruth or negative/positive image pairs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Komal Kumar , Ankan Deria , Abhishek Basu , Fahad Shamshad , Hisham Cholakkal , Karthik Nandakumar

Safe swarm navigation in cluttered indoor environment requires long-horizon planning, reactive obstacle avoidance, and adaptive compliance. We propose ImpedanceDiffusion, a hierarchical framework that leverages image-conditioned…

Recent advances in motion planning for autonomous driving have led to models capable of generating high-quality trajectories. However, most existing planners tend to fix their policy after supervised training, leading to consistent but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Fan Ding , Xuewen Luo , Hwa Hui Tew , Ruturaj Reddy , Xikun Wang , Junn Yong Loo

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is widely used in continuous control due to its robustness and stable training, yet it remains sample-inefficient in tasks with expensive interactions and high-dimensional action spaces. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tianci Gao , Konstantin A. Neusypin , Dmitry D. Dmitriev , Bo Yang , Shengren Rao

Current imitation learning approaches, predominantly based on deep neural networks (DNNs), offer efficient mechanisms for learning driving policies from real-world datasets. However, they suffer from inherent limitations in interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Iman Sharifi , Mustafa Yildirim , Saber Fallah

This paper introduces Consistency Trajectory Planning (CTP), a novel offline model-based reinforcement learning method that leverages the recently proposed Consistency Trajectory Model (CTM) for efficient trajectory optimization. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Guanquan Wang , Takuya Hiraoka , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Few-step diffusion models enable efficient high-resolution image synthesis but struggle to align with specific downstream objectives due to limitations of existing reinforcement learning (RL) methods in low-step regimes with limited state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ziyi Zhang , Li Shen , Sen Zhang , Deheng Ye , Yong Luo , Miaojing Shi , Dongjing Shan , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao

We propose discriminative reward co-training (DIRECT) as an extension to deep reinforcement learning algorithms. Building upon the concept of self-imitation learning (SIL), we introduce an imitation buffer to store beneficial trajectories…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Philipp Altmann , Thomy Phan , Fabian Ritz , Thomas Gabor , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Recent developments in offline reinforcement learning have uncovered the immense potential of diffusion modeling, which excels at representing heterogeneous behavior policies. However, sampling from diffusion policies is considerably slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Huayu Chen , Cheng Lu , Zhengyi Wang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Dynamic point cloud pretraining is still dominated by masked reconstruction objectives. However, these objectives inherit two key limitations. Existing methods inject ground-truth tube centers as decoder positional embeddings, causing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhuoyue Zhang , Jihua Zhu , Chaowei Fang , Jian Liu , Ajmal Saeed Mian

Simultaneously grasping and delivering multiple objects can significantly enhance robotic work efficiency and has been a key research focus for decades. The primary challenge lies in determining how to push objects, group them, and execute…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Takahiro Yonemaru , Weiwei Wan , Tatsuki Nishimura , Kensuke Harada

Recent advancements in diffusion models have made fine-tuning text-to-image models for personalization increasingly accessible, but have also raised significant concerns regarding unauthorized data usage and privacy infringement. Current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hojun Lee , Mijin Koo , Yeji Song , Nojun Kwak

In Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs), the task of modeling the score evolution via a single time-dependent neural network necessitates extended training periods and may potentially impede modeling flexibility and capacity. To counteract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Etrit Haxholli , Marco Lorenzi

Diffusion policies are becoming mainstream in robotic manipulation but suffer from hard negative class imbalance due to uniform sampling and lack of sample difficulty awareness, leading to slow training convergence and frequent inference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Xinglei Yu , Zhenyang Liu , Shufeng Nan , Simo Wu , Yanwei Fu

In an effort to further advance semi-supervised generative and classification tasks, we propose a simple yet effective training strategy called dual pseudo training (DPT), built upon strong semi-supervised learners and diffusion models. DPT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Zebin You , Yong Zhong , Fan Bao , Jiacheng Sun , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu