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most citedRDT-1B: a Diffusion Foundation Model for Bimanual Manipulation

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17 papers

cs.CV2026

Causal-rCM: A Unified Teacher-Forcing and Self-Forcing Open Recipe for Autoregressive Diffusion Distillation in Streaming Video Generation and Interactive World Models

Kaiwen Zheng, Guande He, Min Zhao +7

Autoregressive video diffusion with causal diffusion transformers has emerged as a major paradigm for real-time streaming video generation and action-conditioned interactive world…

cs.RO2026

PACT: Self-Evolving Physical Safety Alignment for Diffusion Policies in Embodied Manipulation

Lingxuan Wu, Zijian Zhu, Lizhong Wang +5

Diffusion policies have achieved remarkable success in robotic manipulation, yet they often fail to satisfy strict physical constraints required for safe deployment. Existing appro…

cs.LG2025

Data-regularized Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Models at Scale

Haotian Ye, Kaiwen Zheng, Jiashu Xu +15

Aligning generative diffusion models with human preferences via reinforcement learning (RL) is critical yet challenging. Most existing algorithms are often vulnerable to reward hac…

cs.CV2025

InfoTok: Adaptive Discrete Video Tokenizer via Information-Theoretic Compression

Haotian Ye, Qiyuan He, Jiaqi Han +12

Accurate and efficient discrete video tokenization is essential for long video sequences processing. Yet, the inherent complexity and variable information density of videos present…

cs.CV2025

Large Scale Diffusion Distillation via Score-Regularized Continuous-Time Consistency

Kaiwen Zheng, Yuji Wang, Qianli Ma +7

Although continuous-time consistency models (e.g., sCM, MeanFlow) are theoretically principled and empirically powerful for fast academic-scale diffusion, its applicability to larg…

cs.LG2025

DiffusionNFT: Online Diffusion Reinforcement with Forward Process

Kaiwen Zheng, Huayu Chen, Haotian Ye +7

Online reinforcement learning (RL) has been central to post-training language models, but its extension to diffusion models remains challenging due to intractable likelihoods. Rece…

cs.LG2025

NFT: Bridging Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Math Reasoning

Huayu Chen, Kaiwen Zheng, Qinsheng Zhang +8

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has played a central role in the recent surge of LLMs' math abilities by enabling self-improvement through binary verifier signals. In contrast, Supervi…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Cosmos-Reason1: From Physical Common Sense To Embodied Reasoning

NVIDIA, :, Alisson Azzolini +51

Physical AI systems need to perceive, understand, and perform complex actions in the physical world. In this paper, we present the Cosmos-Reason1 models that can understand the phy…

cs.CV2025

Direct Discriminative Optimization: Your Likelihood-Based Visual Generative Model is Secretly a GAN Discriminator

Kaiwen Zheng, Yongxin Chen, Huayu Chen +4

While likelihood-based generative models, particularly diffusion and autoregressive models, have achieved remarkable fidelity in visual generation, the maximum likelihood estimatio…

cs.LG2025

Exploratory Diffusion Model for Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning

Chengyang Ying, Huayu Chen, Xinning Zhou +3

Unsupervised reinforcement learning (URL) aims to pre-train agents by exploring diverse states or skills in reward-free environments, facilitating efficient adaptation to downstrea…

cs.CV2025

Visual Generation Without Guidance

Huayu Chen, Kai Jiang, Kaiwen Zheng +3

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has been a default technique in various visual generative models, yet it requires inference from both conditional and unconditional models during sam…

cs.CV2024

Toward Guidance-Free AR Visual Generation via Condition Contrastive Alignment

Huayu Chen, Hang Su, Peize Sun +1

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a critical technique for enhancing the sample quality of visual generative models. However, in autoregressive (AR) multi-modal generation, CFG int…

cs.RO2024★ 5 cited

RDT-1B: a Diffusion Foundation Model for Bimanual Manipulation

Songming Liu, Lingxuan Wu, Bangguo Li +6

Bimanual manipulation is essential in robotics, yet developing foundation models is extremely challenging due to the inherent complexity of coordinating two robot arms (leading to…

cs.LG2024

Aligning Diffusion Behaviors with Q-functions for Efficient Continuous Control

Huayu Chen, Kaiwen Zheng, Hang Su +1

Drawing upon recent advances in language model alignment, we formulate offline Reinforcement Learning as a two-stage optimization problem: First pretraining expressive generative p…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

C-GAIL: Stabilizing Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning with Control Theory

Tianjiao Luo, Tim Pearce, Huayu Chen +2

Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL) trains a generative policy to mimic a demonstrator. It uses on-policy Reinforcement Learning (RL) to optimize a reward signal deriv…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Noise Contrastive Alignment of Language Models with Explicit Rewards

Huayu Chen, Guande He, Lifan Yuan +3

User intentions are typically formalized as evaluation rewards to be maximized when fine-tuning language models (LMs). Existing alignment methods, such as Direct Preference Optimiz…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Score Regularized Policy Optimization through Diffusion Behavior

Huayu Chen, Cheng Lu, Zhengyi Wang +2

Recent developments in offline reinforcement learning have uncovered the immense potential of diffusion modeling, which excels at representing heterogeneous behavior policies. Howe…