arXiv Machine Learning

A Study of Conditional Diffusion Models for Open-Loop Control under Dry Friction and Stiction

The paper introduces Action Diffusion, a conditional diffusion model that generates action sequences for a point-mass system affected by dry friction and stiction. Using a compact 1D U‑Net, the model produces bounded control sequences conditioned on initial and target states, outperforming uniform random shooting, structured random shooting, and the Cross‑Entropy Method in reducing terminal error and stuck steps, especially with few samples. The results demonstrate that conditional diffusion can produce temporally coherent controls that effectively overcome stiction by recombining structured primitives from the training prior.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19

DADP: Domain Adaptive Diffusion Policy

arXiv:2602. 04037v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning domain adaptive policies that can generalize to unseen transition dynamics, remains a fundamental challenge in learning-based control.

By Pengcheng Wang, Qinghang Liu, Haotian Lin, Yiheng Li, Guojian Zhan, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Yixiao Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

Learning Foresight without Explicit Trajectories for 3D Diffusion Policies

The paper introduces Movement Trend Guidance, a method that equips 3D diffusion policies with foresight by learning a compact latent representation of interaction evolution from a brief observation history. This latent, supervised by sparse future gripper states during training, serves as future-oriented conditioning during inference, enhancing action generation without adding explicit planning. The approach improves performance on RoboTwin2.0, LIBERO-40, and DexArt benchmarks, achieving higher success rates across multiple tasks.

By Zhongbo Zhang, Zaibin Zhang, Yifan Wang, Changbo Yan, Lijun Wang, Huchuan Lu
arXiv AI
3d ago

Diffusion-Augmented Markov Decision Processes for Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning

The paper introduces Diffusion-Augmented Markov Decision Processes (DA‑MDPs), a framework that extends Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning to diffusion-based policies. DA‑MDPs treat each reverse‑diffusion step as an RL decision, deriving a tractable reverse‑KL bound that decomposes across denoising transitions and yields diffusion‑augmented soft rewards, value functions, and policy objectives. The authors implement this framework with PPO, REPPO, and a maximum‑entropy WPO variant, showing improved continuous‑control performance, higher success rates on manipulation tasks, and memory‑efficient training with action chunking.

By Sebastian Sanokowski, Kaustubh Patil, Majid Khadiv
arXiv AI
Aug 3

RAPiD: Reward-Guided Consistency Distillation of Diffusion Planners for Real-Time Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2602. 07339v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based trajectory planners can model multi-modal driving behavior, but their iterative denoising process introduces a latency bottleneck for real-time closed-loop deployment.

By Ruturaj Reddy, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Junn Yong Loo, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Ganesh Krishnasamy
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 4

Let It Be Simple: One-Step Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Models

Diffusion-based vision-language-action (VLA) models often inherit the image-generation view: actions are generated by iterative denoising. We argue that VLA action generation has a different condition-target structure: the policy is conditioned on rich observations, language, and state, but predicts only a compact, low-dimensional action chunk.