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Flow reversal steering allows "steering" diffusion-based VLAs with high-level actions, for example from VLM reasoning. This also lets us run RL in the diffusion noise space with exploration guided by high-level reasoning: think through a task, then practice it! 👇

Sergey Levine

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Sergey Levine4 months ago

Check out the paper here: A fun collaboration w/ Andy Tang, @verityw_ , @ajwagenmaker, @chelseabfinn

Nurvai - The Data Layer for Physical AI4 months ago

Saw this a few months back, and the idea of guiding diffusion policies through higher-level reasoning is still really interesting. Giving models a way to “think through” a task while exploring the action space could be a powerful bridge between planning and execution in robotics.

Shubham Nagar4 months ago

That’s really inspiring work, I have fun reading about latest research in robotics. My current interest is in using FF-JEPA world models and using RL agents to plan it in the latent space. I have been talking to a professor about this at my university!

Masa.S4 months ago

技術は毎年進化する。しかし未来を支えるのは、優しさと温もり、そして人と人とのつながりではないでしょうか。ヒューマノイドが「助ける」だけでなく、「安心を届ける」存在になれたらどうでしょう。 Technology may become smarter every year. But the future will belong to those who remember kindness, warmth, and human connection. What if a humanoid could offer not only assistance, but also reassurance?

Maximilian Alexander4 months ago

What robotic arms do you recommend us buying to try this out?

YJTimeless4 months ago

✨ “Think first, then practice” perfectly sums up the core advantage of Flow Reverse Steering!

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