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Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion

Cheng Chi, Siyuan Feng, Yilun Du, Zhenjia Xu, Eric Cousineau, Benjamin Burchfiel, Shuran Song · Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) (2023)

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Principal Contribution

Framed robot visuomotor action generation as a conditional diffusion process over continuous action trajectories, outperforming traditional Gaussian mixture and deterministic policies on multimodal manipulation tasks.

Operational Relevance

Serves as qualified theoretical and systems foundation for task-continuous-control, task-robotics.

Assumptions

  • Markovian state dynamics and stationary reward functions hold in target evaluation environments

Limitations

  • Sample efficiency, exploration stability, and real-world sim-to-real transfer gaps require specialized tuning

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