提出FlowDPG方法,让机器人在复杂操作中更稳定地学习动作策略。
FlowDPG: Deterministic Policy Gradient on Flow Matching Policies for Real-World Manipulation

- 用速度场替代反向传播,避免计算耗时且不稳定的多步微分方程求解。
- 在真实双臂装配任务中实现92%的端到端成功率,显著优于现有方法。
- 适合需要高稳定性与长周期决策的现实机器人操控场景。
现实世界中的机器人操控强化学习仍具挑战性,尤其对流匹配策略而言:将策略梯度方法应用于此类策略时,需沿多步常微分方程(ODE)进行反向传播(BPTT),这既计算开销大又数值脆弱。本文提出FlowDPG,一种专为流匹配策略设计的DDPG风格方法,训练时将价值函数梯度蒸馏至速度场,完全规避BPTT。直观上,FlowDPG融合两个互补方向:由示范驱动的速度场确保动作可行性,由价值网络驱动的修正项引导动作趋向更高回报。贡献有三:(1) 提出无需BPTT的蒸馏框架,实现流匹配策略上稳定且高效的DDPG式策略优化;(2) 通过三个明确近似,建立FlowDPG更新方向与经典确定性策略梯度之间的形式联系;(3) 在长时程、多阶段、双臂AirPods装配任务中完成真实世界验证,取得92%的端到端成功率,大幅超越近期基于值条件、辅助模块适配及伴随法梯度的价值函数方法。更多视频与结果见项目页 https://flowdpg.github.io。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Real-world reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation remains challenging, and this difficulty is amplified for flow matching policies: applying policy gradient methods to these policies is fundamentally limited by the need to backpropagate through time(BPTT) along the multi-step ODE that maps noise to actions, which is computationally prohibitive and numerically fragile. We propose FlowDPG, a DDPG-style method specifically designed for flow matching policies that distills the critic gradient into the velocity field at training time, bypassing BPTT entirely. Intuitively, FlowDPG combines two complementary vectors: the demonstration-driven velocity that keeps the action feasible, and the critic-driven correction that steers it toward higher value. Our contributions are threefold: (1) a BPTT-free distillation framework that enables stable DDPG-style policy improvement on flow matching policies, (2) a formal connection between the FlowDPG update direction and vanilla Deterministic Policy Gradient via three explicit approximations, and (3) real-world validation on a long-horizon, multi-stage, dual-arm AirPods assembly task, where FlowDPG attains a 92% end-to-end success rate, substantially outperforming recent RL methods spanning value-conditioning, auxiliary-module adaptation, and adjoint-based critic-gradient approaches. Videos and more results are provided on the project page https://flowdpg.github.io.
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