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High-Fidelity One-Step Generative Visuomotor Policy via Recursive Correction, Frequency Consistency, and Contrastive Flow Matching

arXiv:2607. 03865v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models such as diffusion and flow matching have advanced robotic visuomotor policies by modeling multimodal action distributions, but their multi-step sampling or ODE solving introduces inference latency.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 10

SeFA-Policy: Fast and Accurate Visuomotor Policy Learning with Selective Flow Alignment

arXiv:2511. 08583v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Developing efficient and accurate visuomotor policies poses a central challenge in robotic imitation learning.

By Rong Xue, Jiageng Mao, Mingtong Zhang, Yue Wang

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arXiv AI

Jun 19

Frequency-Aware Flow Matching for Continuous and Consistent Robotic Action Generation

arXiv:2606. 20135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow matching has emerged as a standard paradigm for robotic manipulation owing to its strong expressive power for modelling complex, multimodal action distributions, alongside similar approaches like diffusion policy.

By Jianing Guo, Fangzheng Chen, Zihao Mao, Wong Lik Hang Kenny, Zhenhong Wu, Yu Li, Yishuai Cai, Yuanpei Chen, Yikun Ban, Kai Chen, Qi Dou, Yaodong Yang, Xianglong Liu, Huijie Zhao, Simin Li

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arXiv AI

Jun 9

Latent Diffusion Policy: Shaping Latent Spaces for Diffusion-Based Robotic Manipulation

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 8

SERNF: Sample-Efficient Real-World Dexterous Policy Fine-Tuning via Action-Chunked Critics and Normalizing Flows

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

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arXiv AI

Jul 31

DLAM: Distributional Latent Actions with Temporal Constraints

arXiv:2607. 27138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models remain constrained by scarce action-labeled robot data, whereas action-free videos offer abundant observations of physical change.

By Zuojin Tang, Feifan Luo, Haoyun Liu, Botai Yuan, Dekang Qi, Ronghan Chen, Yandan Yang, Tong Lin, Xinyuan Chang, Mu Xu, Bin Liu, De Ma, Zhiheng Ma

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

MimicIK: Real-Time Generative Inverse Kinematics from Teleoperation with FK Consistency

arXiv:2606. 15148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inverse kinematics (IK) remains a critical bottleneck for real-time robot manipulation.

By Jiahao Yang, Shenhao Yan, Fan Feng, Chengsi Yao, Ge Wang, Zhixin Mai, Yiming Zhao, Yatong Han

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 13

FlowDAgger: Human-in-the-Loop Adaptation of Generative Robot Policies in Latent Space

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Sample from What You See: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Diffusion Bridge with Observation-Embedded Stochastic Differential Equation

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

Implicit Drifting Policy: One-Step Action Generation via Conditional Expert Geometry

arXiv:2606. 01098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative action policies based on diffusion or flow matching excel in behavior cloning, yet their iterative sampling is prohibitive for high-frequency robot control.

By Zemin Yang, Yaoyu He, Yiming Zhong, Yuhao Zhang, Xinge Zhu, Yao Mu, Qingqiu Huang, Yuexin Ma

diffusion robotics efficiency

arXiv AI

Aug 7

SkillMemo: Expert-guided Skill Memory Framework for Compositional Embodied Manipulation

arXiv:2608. 05970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied visuomotor models, including Diffusion Policy (DP) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have demonstrated promising performance on robotic manipulation benchmarks.

By Changyuan Wang, Chubin Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Runhao Li, Angyuan Ma, Ke Chao, Yinan Liang, Xiuwei Xu, Ziwei Wang, Yansong Tang, Jiwen Lu

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arXiv AI

Aug 10

Decoupling Intention from Trajectory: A Representational Deduction Framework for World Action Models

arXiv:2608. 06994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) aim to construct a unified architecture capable of understanding world state evolution and guiding to generative motion planning.

By Xiangkai Ma, Yue Ma, Junjie Wang, Sheng Xu, Mingyang Li, Han Zhang, Yuzheng Zhuang, Wenzhong Li, Zhihao Yuan

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

From Noise to Intent: Anchoring Generative VLA Policies with Residual Bridges

arXiv:2604. 21391v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bridging high-level semantic understanding with low-level physical control remains a persistent challenge in embodied intelligence, stemming from the fundamental spatiotemporal scale mismatch between cognition and action.

By Yiming Zhong, Yaoyu He, Zemin Yang, Pengfei Tian, Yifan Huang, Qingqiu Huang, Xinge Zhu, Yuexin Ma

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