Learning Multimodal One-step Flow Policy via Value-weighted Optimal Transport
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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.
The paper introduces OMAF, an Online MARL framework that uses a one-step Transformer-based flow policy to generate coordinated actions efficiently. By replacing costly iterative sampling with a single-step action generation and a joint optimization scheme that couples softmax Q-value estimation with flow policy objectives, OMAF maintains expressive multimodal behavior while improving training speed. Experiments on 10 tasks from MPE and MAMuJoCo demonstrate up to 3.4× higher returns and 10.5× better sample efficiency compared to baseline methods.
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.
arXiv:2610.29075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We aim to address the problem of Out-of-Distribution (OOD) Mode Averaging, a critical problem that emerges when distilling Flow Matching (FM) based beh...
arXiv:2609.15123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-based policies offer an expressive representation for online reinforcement learning, but conventional flow matching requires samples drawn from...
The paper introduces SCOUT, an offline multi-agent reinforcement learning framework that combines a generative behavioral prior with a decomposed value function for test-time action refinement. SCOUT uses optimal unified transport and Stein variational gradient descent to steer behavioral samples toward high-value regions, with the number of transport steps providing adaptive scaling. The authors prove a single-term KL bound on the joint soft-value gap under the individual-global-max principle and demonstrate that SCOUT outperforms existing methods on both discrete and continuous offline MARL benchmarks, including offline-to-online settings.