arXiv Computer Vision August 21, 2026 By Shaoxuan Wang, Guangting Zheng, Rui Huang, Zhipeng Tang, Sha Zhang, Jiajun Deng, Yanyong Zhang

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

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arXiv:2608. 20208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning improves robotic policies using previously collected data without further environment interaction.

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