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Prompt learning has demonstrated promising results in fine-tuning pre-trained multimodal models. However, the performance improvement is limited when applied to more complex and fine-grained tasks. The reason is that most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Weicai Yan , Wang Lin , Zirun Guo , Ye Wang , Fangming Feng , Xiaoda Yang , Zehan Wang , Tao Jin

A fundamental objective of manipulation policy design is to endow robots to comprehend human instructions, reason about scene cues, and execute generalized actions in dynamic environments. Recent autoregressive vision-language-action (VLA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jiaming Liu , Hao Chen , Pengju An , Zhuoyang Liu , Renrui Zhang , Chenyang Gu , Xiaoqi Li , Ziyu Guo , Sixiang Chen , Mengzhen Liu , Chengkai Hou , Mengdi Zhao , KC alex Zhou , Pheng-Ann Heng , Shanghang Zhang

Recent studies have shown the great potential of diffusion models in improving reinforcement learning (RL) by modeling complex policies, expressing a high degree of multi-modality, and efficiently handling high-dimensional continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Huiyun Jiang , Zhuang Yang

Recent advances in diffusion models have opened new avenues for research into embodied AI agents and robotics. Despite significant achievements in complex robotic locomotion and skills, mobile manipulation-a capability that requires the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sixu Yan , Zeyu Zhang , Muzhi Han , Zaijin Wang , Qi Xie , Zhitian Li , Zhehan Li , Hangxin Liu , Xinggang Wang , Song-Chun Zhu

This paper introduces ManiFlow, a visuomotor imitation learning policy for general robot manipulation that generates precise, high-dimensional actions conditioned on diverse visual, language and proprioceptive inputs. We leverage flow…

We present a diffusion-based approach to quadrupedal locomotion that simultaneously addresses the limitations of learning and interpolating between multiple skills and of (modes) offline adapting to new locomotion behaviours after training.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Reece O'Mahoney , Alexander L. Mitchell , Wanming Yu , Ingmar Posner , Ioannis Havoutis

Diffusion models produce high quality images but inference is costly due to many denoising steps and heavy matrix operations. We present DiffPro, a post-training, hardware-faithful framework that works with the exact integer kernels used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Farhana Amin , Sabiha Afroz , Kanchon Gharami , Mona Moghadampanah , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Humanoid robots are envisioned to adapt demonstrated motions to diverse real-world conditions while accurately preserving motion patterns. Existing motion prior approaches enable well adaptability with a few motions but often sacrifice…

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

Diffusion language models enable any-order generation and bidirectional conditioning, offering appealing flexibility for tasks such as infilling, rewriting, and self-correction. However, their formulation-predicting one part of a sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tianqi Du , Lizhe Fang , Weijie Yang , Chenheng Zhang , Zeming Wei , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang

Diffusion and flow-based models have enabled significant progress in generation tasks across various modalities and have recently found applications in predictive learning. However, unlike typical generation tasks that encourage sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yu Zhang , Xingzhuo Guo , Haoran Xu , Jialong Wu , Mingsheng Long

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) can generate high-quality videos, but often struggle with producing temporally coherent motion. Optical flow supervision is a promising approach to address this, with prior works commonly employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kuanting Wu , Kei Ota , Asako Kanezaki

Diffusion policies are conditional diffusion models that learn robot action distributions conditioned on the robot and environment state. They have recently shown to outperform both deterministic and alternative action distribution learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Tsung-Wei Ke , Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Diffusion models excel at generating diverse and multimodal trajectories for robotic planning, yet their iterative denoising process introduces latency that is incompatible with high-frequency closed-loop control. To address this problem,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lei Zheng , Peiqi Yu , Zengqi Peng , Changliu Liu , Armin Lederer

Advances in robot learning have enabled robots to generate skills for a variety of tasks. Yet, robot learning is typically sample inefficient, struggles to learn from data sources exhibiting varied behaviors, and does not naturally…

A central challenge in mobile manipulation is preserving multiple plausible action models while remaining reactive during execution. A bottle in a cluttered scene can often be approached and grasped in multiple valid ways. Robust behavior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jia Syuen Lim , Zhizhen Zhang , Peter Bohm , Brendan Tidd , Zi Huang , Yadan Luo

This work introduces Variational Diffusion Distillation (VDD), a novel method that distills denoising diffusion policies into Mixtures of Experts (MoE) through variational inference. Diffusion Models are the current state-of-the-art in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hongyi Zhou , Denis Blessing , Ge Li , Onur Celik , Xiaogang Jia , Gerhard Neumann , Rudolf Lioutikov

Diffusion Transformer (DiT), an emerging diffusion model for visual generation, has demonstrated superior performance but suffers from substantial computational costs. Our investigations reveal that these costs primarily stem from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Wangbo Zhao , Yizeng Han , Jiasheng Tang , Kai Wang , Hao Luo , Yibing Song , Gao Huang , Fan Wang , Yang You

Diffusion models deliver state-of-the-art generative performance across diverse modalities but remain computationally expensive due to their inherently iterative sampling process. Existing training-free acceleration methods typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Cheng Jin , Zhenyu Xiao , Yuantao Gu

Diffusion-based visuomotor policies excel at learning complex robotic tasks by effectively combining visual data with high-dimensional, multi-modal action distributions. However, diffusion models often suffer from slow inference due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Haoran Ding , Noémie Jaquier , Jan Peters , Leonel Rozo