Refining Compositional Diffusion for Reliable Long-Horizon Planning

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Main Authors: Lee, Kyowoon, Luo, Yunhao, Tong, Anh, Choi, Jaesik
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author Lee, Kyowoon
Luo, Yunhao
Tong, Anh
Choi, Jaesik
author_facet Lee, Kyowoon
Luo, Yunhao
Tong, Anh
Choi, Jaesik
contents Compositional diffusion planning generates long-horizon trajectories by stitching together overlapping short-horizon segments through score composition. However, when local plan distributions are multimodal, existing compositional methods suffer from mode-averaging, where averaging incompatible local modes leads to plans that are neither locally feasible nor globally coherent. We propose Refining Compositional Diffusion (RCD), a training-free guidance method that steers compositional sampling toward high-density, globally coherent plans. RCD leverages the self-reconstruction error of a pretrained diffusion model as a proxy for the log-density of composed plans, combined with an overlap consistency term that enforces consistency at segment boundaries. We show that the combined guidance concentrates sampling on high-density plans that mitigate mode-averaging. Experiments on challenging long-horizon tasks from OGBench, including locomotion, object manipulation, and pixel-based observations, demonstrate that RCD consistently outperforms existing methods.
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spellingShingle Refining Compositional Diffusion for Reliable Long-Horizon Planning
Lee, Kyowoon
Luo, Yunhao
Tong, Anh
Choi, Jaesik
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Compositional diffusion planning generates long-horizon trajectories by stitching together overlapping short-horizon segments through score composition. However, when local plan distributions are multimodal, existing compositional methods suffer from mode-averaging, where averaging incompatible local modes leads to plans that are neither locally feasible nor globally coherent. We propose Refining Compositional Diffusion (RCD), a training-free guidance method that steers compositional sampling toward high-density, globally coherent plans. RCD leverages the self-reconstruction error of a pretrained diffusion model as a proxy for the log-density of composed plans, combined with an overlap consistency term that enforces consistency at segment boundaries. We show that the combined guidance concentrates sampling on high-density plans that mitigate mode-averaging. Experiments on challenging long-horizon tasks from OGBench, including locomotion, object manipulation, and pixel-based observations, demonstrate that RCD consistently outperforms existing methods.
title Refining Compositional Diffusion for Reliable Long-Horizon Planning
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03075