Flow Policy Gradients for Robot Control

2026-10-15 · ArXiv

arXiv:2602.02481v2 Announce Type: replace-cross

Abstract: Likelihood-based policy gradient methods are the dominant approach for training robot control policies from rewards. These methods rely on differentiable action likelihoods, which constrain policy outputs to simple distributions like Gaussians. In this work, we show how flow matching policy gradients, a recent framework that bypasses likelihood computation, can be made effective for training and finetuning more expressive policies in challenging robot control settings. We introduce an improved objective that enables success in legged locomotion, humanoid motion tracking, and manipulation tasks, as well as robust sim-to-real transfer on two humanoid robots. We then present ablations and analysis on training dynamics. Results show how policies can exploit the flow representation for exploration when training from scratch, as well as improved finetuning robustness over baselines.

原文链接:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02481

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