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Diffusion planning is a promising method for learning high-performance policies from offline data. To avoid the impact of discrepancies between planning and reality on performance, previous works generate new plans at each time step.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaming Guo , Rui Zhang , Zerun Li , Yunkai Gao , Shaohui Peng , Siming Lan , Xing Hu , Zidong Du , Xishan Zhang , Ling Li

Diffusion models demonstrate superior performance in capturing complex distributions from large-scale datasets, providing a promising solution for quadrupedal locomotion control. However, the robustness of the diffusion planner is…

Diffusion-based trajectory planners can synthesize rich, multimodal action sequences for offline reinforcement learning, but their iterative denoising incurs substantial inference-time cost, making closed-loop planning slow under tight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Gokul Puthumanaillam , Melkior Ornik

Diffusion models have recently gained prominence in offline reinforcement learning due to their ability to effectively learn high-performing, generalizable policies from static datasets. Diffusion-based planners facilitate long-horizon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Donghyeon Ki , JunHyeok Oh , Seong-Woong Shim , Byung-Jun Lee

Diffusion models can be used as a motion planner by sampling from a distribution of possible futures. However, the samples may not satisfy hard constraints that exist only implicitly in the training data, e.g., avoiding falls or not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nicholas Ioannidis , Daniele Reda , Setareh Cohan , Michiel van de Panne

Diffusion policies, widely adopted in decision-making scenarios such as robotics, gaming and autonomous driving, are capable of learning diverse skills from demonstration data due to their high representation power. However, the sub-optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ningyuan Yang , Jiaxuan Gao , Feng Gao , Yi Wu , Chao Yu

The paper introduces DiSProD, an online planner developed for environments with probabilistic transitions in continuous state and action spaces. DiSProD builds a symbolic graph that captures the distribution of future trajectories,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Palash Chatterjee , Ashutosh Chapagain , Weizhe Chen , Roni Khardon

Learning to perform accurate and rich simulations of human driving behaviors from data for autonomous vehicle testing remains challenging due to human driving styles' high diversity and variance. We address this challenge by proposing a…

Traditional optimization-based planners, while effective, suffer from high computational costs, resulting in slow trajectory generation. A successful strategy to reduce computation time involves using Imitation Learning (IL) to develop fast…

Robots in the real world need to perceive and move to goals in complex environments without collisions. Avoiding collisions is especially difficult when relying on sensor perception and when goals are among clutter. Diffusion policies and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Mohit Sharma , Adam Fishman , Vikash Kumar , Chris Paxton , Oliver Kroemer

Learning priors on trajectory distributions can help accelerate robot motion planning optimization. Given previously successful plans, learning trajectory generative models as priors for a new planning problem is highly desirable. Prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Joao Carvalho , An T. Le , Mark Baierl , Dorothea Koert , Jan Peters

Motion planning in dynamic urban environments requires balancing immediate safety with long-term goals. While diffusion models effectively capture multi-modal decision-making, existing approaches treat trajectories as monolithic entities,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xiang Li , Bikun Wang , John Zhang , Jianjun Wang

We present DiPPeST, a novel image and goal conditioned diffusion-based trajectory generator for quadrupedal robot path planning. DiPPeST is a zero-shot adaptation of our previously introduced diffusion-based 2D global trajectory generator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Maria Stamatopoulou , Jianwei Liu , Dimitrios Kanoulas

Reinforcement learning has received high research interest for developing planning approaches in automated driving. Most prior works consider the end-to-end planning task that yields direct control commands and rarely deploy their algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Marvin Klimke , Benjamin Völz , Michael Buchholz

Diffusion policies (DP) have demonstrated significant potential in visual navigation by capturing diverse multi-modal trajectory distributions. However, standard imitation learning (IL), which most DP methods rely on for training, often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Runhua Zhang , Junyi Hou , Changxu Cheng , Qiyi Chen , Tao Wang , Wuyue Zhao

Diffusion models have shown great promise in decision-making, also known as diffusion planning. However, the slow inference speeds limit their potential for broader real-world applications. Here, we introduce Habi, a general framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Haofei Lu , Yifei Shen , Dongsheng Li , Junliang Xing , Dongqi Han

Autonomous driving technology has seen significant advancements, but existing models often fail to fully capture the complexity of multi-agent environments, where interactions between dynamic agents are critical. To address this, we propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Liu Yunhao , Ding Hong , Zhang Ziming , Wang Huixin , Liu Jinzhao , Xi Suyang

End-to-end autonomous driving remains constrained by the difficulty of producing adaptive, robust, and interpretable decision-making across diverse scenarios. Existing methods often collapse diverse driving behaviors, lack long-horizon…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Chengkai Xu , Jiaqi Liu , Yicheng Guo , Peng Hang , Jian Sun

In this work, we present DiPPeR, a novel and fast 2D path planning framework for quadrupedal locomotion, leveraging diffusion-driven techniques. Our contributions include a scalable dataset generator for map images and corresponding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jianwei Liu , Maria Stamatopoulou , Dimitrios Kanoulas

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