arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

Q-Learning with Scalar Adjoint Matching

The paper introduces Q‑Learning with Scalar Adjoint Matching (SQAM), a method that replaces expensive per‑step vector–Jacobian products in flow policy fine‑tuning with a closed‑form scalar adjoint that scales the value gradient by flow time. SQAM also incorporates a value penalty on policy‑generated actions, which is shown to be crucial for effective learning. Experiments demonstrate that SQAM outperforms strong baselines on the hardest OGBench domains and improves supervised fine‑tuning on a real bimanual robot with a vision‑language‑action policy.

By Yonghoon Dong, Minsung Yoon, Jaehyuk Kim, Jungwoo Park, Changyeon Kim, Jinwoo Shin
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Aug 20

RoMAN-Flow: Taming Autoregressive Normalizing Flows for Offline Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Manipulation

Offline reinforcement learning improves robotic policies using previously collected data without further environment interaction. Yet prevalent diffusion- and flow-matching robot policies lack tractable likelihoods, limiting their use in likelihood-based offline RL post-training.