Prior Does Matter: Visual Navigation via Denoising Diffusion Bridge Models
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| author | Ren, Hao Zeng, Yiming Bi, Zetong Wan, Zhaoliang Huang, Junlong Cheng, Hui |
| author_facet | Ren, Hao Zeng, Yiming Bi, Zetong Wan, Zhaoliang Huang, Junlong Cheng, Hui |
| contents | Recent advancements in diffusion-based imitation learning, which show impressive performance in modeling multimodal distributions and training stability, have led to substantial progress in various robot learning tasks. In visual navigation, previous diffusion-based policies typically generate action sequences by initiating from denoising Gaussian noise. However, the target action distribution often diverges significantly from Gaussian noise, leading to redundant denoising steps and increased learning complexity. Additionally, the sparsity of effective action distributions makes it challenging for the policy to generate accurate actions without guidance. To address these issues, we propose a novel, unified visual navigation framework leveraging the denoising diffusion bridge models named NaviBridger. This approach enables action generation by initiating from any informative prior actions, enhancing guidance and efficiency in the denoising process. We explore how diffusion bridges can enhance imitation learning in visual navigation tasks and further examine three source policies for generating prior actions. Extensive experiments in both simulated and real-world indoor and outdoor scenarios demonstrate that NaviBridger accelerates policy inference and outperforms the baselines in generating target action sequences. Code is available at https://github.com/hren20/NaiviBridger. |
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| spellingShingle | Prior Does Matter: Visual Navigation via Denoising Diffusion Bridge Models Ren, Hao Zeng, Yiming Bi, Zetong Wan, Zhaoliang Huang, Junlong Cheng, Hui Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Recent advancements in diffusion-based imitation learning, which show impressive performance in modeling multimodal distributions and training stability, have led to substantial progress in various robot learning tasks. In visual navigation, previous diffusion-based policies typically generate action sequences by initiating from denoising Gaussian noise. However, the target action distribution often diverges significantly from Gaussian noise, leading to redundant denoising steps and increased learning complexity. Additionally, the sparsity of effective action distributions makes it challenging for the policy to generate accurate actions without guidance. To address these issues, we propose a novel, unified visual navigation framework leveraging the denoising diffusion bridge models named NaviBridger. This approach enables action generation by initiating from any informative prior actions, enhancing guidance and efficiency in the denoising process. We explore how diffusion bridges can enhance imitation learning in visual navigation tasks and further examine three source policies for generating prior actions. Extensive experiments in both simulated and real-world indoor and outdoor scenarios demonstrate that NaviBridger accelerates policy inference and outperforms the baselines in generating target action sequences. Code is available at https://github.com/hren20/NaiviBridger. |
| title | Prior Does Matter: Visual Navigation via Denoising Diffusion Bridge Models |
| topic | Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10041 |