arXiv AI

Learning Multimodal One-step Flow Policy via Value-weighted Optimal Transport

arXiv AI
Jun 30

Dual-Flow Reinforcement Learning with State-Aware Exploration

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 Machine Learning
Jun 9

Latent Spherical Flow Policy for Reinforcement Learning with Combinatorial Actions

arXiv:2601. 22211v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) with combinatorial action spaces remains challenging because feasible action sets are exponentially large and governed by complex feasibility constraints, making direct policy parameterization impractical.

By Lingkai Kong, Anagha Satish, Hezi Jiang, Akseli Kangaslahti, Andrew Ma, Wenbo Chen, Mingxiao Song, Lily Xu, Milind Tambe
arXiv AI
Sep 1

CF-VLA: Efficient Coarse-to-Fine Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Policies

CF‑VLA introduces a two‑stage coarse‑to‑fine approach for vision‑language‑action policies, replacing multi‑step sampling with a coarse initialization that constructs an action‑aware starting point and a single‑step refinement that corrects residual errors. The coarse stage learns a conditional posterior over endpoint velocity to transform Gaussian noise into a structured initialization, while the fine stage performs a fixed‑time refinement. Experiments on CALVIN and LIBERO demonstrate that CF‑VLA achieves a strong efficiency‑performance trade‑off, reducing action sampling latency by 75.4 % and achieving an 83.0 % real‑robot success rate, outperforming existing NFE=2 methods and matching or surpassing NFE=10 baselines.

By Fan Du, Feng Yan, Jianxiong Wu, Xinrun Xu, Weiye Zhang, Weinong Wang, Yu Guo, Bin Qian, Zhihai He, Fei Wang, Heng Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Flow-Matching Policies for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2510. 09976v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models such as OpenVLA, Octo, and $\pi_0$ have shown strong generalization by leveraging large-scale demonstrations, yet their performance is still fundamentally constrained by the quality and coverage of supervised data.

By Mingyang Lyu, Yinqian Sun, Erliang Lin, Huangrui Li, Ruolin Chen, Feifei Zhao, Yi Zeng