arXiv AI By Marcus Hoerger, Rishikesh Joshi, Rahul Shome, Ian Manchester, Hanna Kurniawati

VOiLA: Vectorized Online Planning with Learned Diffusion Model for POMDP Agents

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arXiv:2606. 19729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Planning under uncertainty is an essential capability for autonomous robots.

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PO-PDDL: Learning Symbolic POMDPs from Visual Demonstrations for Robot Planning Under Uncertainty

arXiv:2606. 15654v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world robot task planning must operate under both stochastic action execution and partial observability, yet constructing Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) models for real robotics domains remains difficult and labor-intensive.

By Wenjing Tang, Xuanjin Jin, Yuan Liu, Renming Huang, Cewu Lu, Panpan Cai
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Diffusion Policies for Short-Horizon Planning in Robot Crowd Navigation

The paper introduces Planning Diffusion Policy Optimization (PDPO), an offline‑to‑online reinforcement‑learning framework that employs a diffusion policy to produce short‑horizon action chunks for robot crowd navigation. PDPO is pretrained on collision‑avoidance demonstrations and fine‑tuned online with PPO, generating five‑step action sequences applied in a receding‑horizon manner. The authors also identify a benchmark artifact where agents can leave the valid domain without explicit boundary constraints, and they mitigate this by treating boundary violations as collisions, leading to improved success rates over strong baselines.

By Wendong Li, Jochen Garcke