arXiv:2605. 12236v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-tuning pre-trained robot policies with reinforcement learning (RL) often inherits the bottlenecks introduced by pre-training with behavioral cloning (BC), which produces narrow action distributions that lack the coverage necessary for downstream exploration.
By Matthew M. Hong, Jesse Zhang, Anusha Nagabandi, Abhishek Gupta
arXiv:2602. 18291v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Online Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is a prominent framework for efficient agent coordination.
By Zhuoran Li, Hai Zhong, Xun Wang, Qingxin Xia, Lihua Zhang, Longbo Huang
arXiv:2603. 05296v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) allows robots to learn from offline datasets without risky exploration.
By Hokyun Im, Andrey Kolobov, Jianlong Fu, Youngwoon Lee
arXiv:2606. 01151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior cloning with high-capacity generative policies achieves strong imitation performance, but is often limited by demonstration coverage and distribution shift.
By Hikmet Simsir, Ozgur S. Oguz
arXiv:2606. 10825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion policies (DPs) have emerged as expressive policy representations for robot learning, often used with imitation learning methods such as behavioral cloning (BC).
By Zakariae El Asri, Philippe Gratias-Quiquandon, Nicolas Thome, Olivier Sigaud
arXiv:2602. 09580v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world fine-tuning of dexterous manipulation policies remains challenging due to limited real-world interaction budgets and highly multimodal action distributions.
By Chenyu Yang, Denis Tarasov, Davide Liconti, Romain Guntz, Hehui Zheng, Robert K. Katzschmann
arXiv:2606. 29820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In complex continuous-control reinforcement learning tasks, multimodal optimal actions often coincide with uncertain, multimodal return distributions, making reliable value estimation and multimodal exploration challenging.
By Qijun Li, Zheng Fu, Qi Song, Yifei He, Weitao Zhou, Kun Jiang, Diange Yang
arXiv:2606. 08602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present an online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm for fine-tuning flow-matching policies in continuous-control problems.
By Boshu Lei, Kostas Daniilidis, Antonio Loquercio
arXiv:2606. 08657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based visuomotor policies operating directly in raw action spaces conflate scene comprehension with trajectory generation within a single denoising process.
By Zhexuan Zhou, Yichen Lai, Jinhao Zhang, Huizhe Li, Youmin Gong, Jie Mei
arXiv:2512. 07212v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imitation learning with diffusion models has advanced robotic control by capturing the multi-modal action distributions.
By Zhaoyang Liu, Mokai Pan, Zhongyi Wang, Kaizhen Zhu, Haotao Lu, Haipeng Zhang, Jingya Wang, Ye Shi
arXiv:2607. 08877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained generative robot policies based on flow matching and diffusion have achieved impressive results across a wide range of manipulation tasks.
By Michael Murray, Daphne Chen, Simran Bagaria, Dean Fortier, Tess Hellebrekers, Galen Mullins, Harshavardhan Gajarla, Oier Mees, Maya Cakmak, Andrey Kolobov
arXiv:2605. 03065v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative control policies (GCPs), such as diffusion- and flow-based control policies, have emerged as effective parameterizations for robot learning.
By Sarvesh Patil, Mitsuhiko Nakamoto, Manan Agarwal, Shashwat Saxena, Jesse Zhang, Giri Anantharaman, Cleah Winston, Chaoyi Pan, Douglas Chen, Nai-Chieh Huang, Zeynep Temel, Oliver Kroemer, Sergey Levine, Abhishek Gupta, Hongkai Dai, Paarth Shah, Max Simchowitz