ImplicitRDP: An End-to-End Visual-Force Diffusion Policy with Structural Slow-Fast Learning

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Main Authors: Chen, Wendi, Xue, Han, Wang, Yi, Zhou, Fangyuan, Lv, Jun, Jin, Yang, Tang, Shirun, Wen, Chuan, Lu, Cewu
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author Chen, Wendi
Xue, Han
Wang, Yi
Zhou, Fangyuan
Lv, Jun
Jin, Yang
Tang, Shirun
Wen, Chuan
Lu, Cewu
author_facet Chen, Wendi
Xue, Han
Wang, Yi
Zhou, Fangyuan
Lv, Jun
Jin, Yang
Tang, Shirun
Wen, Chuan
Lu, Cewu
contents Human-level contact-rich manipulation relies on the distinct roles of two key modalities: vision provides spatially rich but temporally slow global context, while force sensing captures rapid, high-frequency local contact dynamics. Integrating these signals is challenging due to their fundamental frequency and informational disparities. In this work, we propose ImplicitRDP, a unified end-to-end visual-force diffusion policy that integrates visual planning and reactive force control within a single network. We introduce Structural Slow-Fast Learning, a mechanism utilizing causal attention to simultaneously process asynchronous visual and force tokens, allowing the policy to perform closed-loop adjustments at the force frequency while maintaining the temporal coherence of action chunks. Furthermore, to mitigate modality collapse where end-to-end models fail to adjust the weights across different modalities, we propose Virtual-target-based Representation Regularization. This auxiliary objective maps force feedback into the same space as the action, providing a stronger, physics-grounded learning signal than raw force prediction. Extensive experiments on contact-rich tasks demonstrate that ImplicitRDP significantly outperforms both vision-only and hierarchical baselines, achieving superior reactivity and success rates with a streamlined training pipeline. Code and videos will be publicly available at https://implicit-rdp.github.io.
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spellingShingle ImplicitRDP: An End-to-End Visual-Force Diffusion Policy with Structural Slow-Fast Learning
Chen, Wendi
Xue, Han
Wang, Yi
Zhou, Fangyuan
Lv, Jun
Jin, Yang
Tang, Shirun
Wen, Chuan
Lu, Cewu
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Human-level contact-rich manipulation relies on the distinct roles of two key modalities: vision provides spatially rich but temporally slow global context, while force sensing captures rapid, high-frequency local contact dynamics. Integrating these signals is challenging due to their fundamental frequency and informational disparities. In this work, we propose ImplicitRDP, a unified end-to-end visual-force diffusion policy that integrates visual planning and reactive force control within a single network. We introduce Structural Slow-Fast Learning, a mechanism utilizing causal attention to simultaneously process asynchronous visual and force tokens, allowing the policy to perform closed-loop adjustments at the force frequency while maintaining the temporal coherence of action chunks. Furthermore, to mitigate modality collapse where end-to-end models fail to adjust the weights across different modalities, we propose Virtual-target-based Representation Regularization. This auxiliary objective maps force feedback into the same space as the action, providing a stronger, physics-grounded learning signal than raw force prediction. Extensive experiments on contact-rich tasks demonstrate that ImplicitRDP significantly outperforms both vision-only and hierarchical baselines, achieving superior reactivity and success rates with a streamlined training pipeline. Code and videos will be publicly available at https://implicit-rdp.github.io.
title ImplicitRDP: An End-to-End Visual-Force Diffusion Policy with Structural Slow-Fast Learning
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10946