Developing generalizable robotic policies that balance inference efficiency, manipulation accuracy, and robustness remains a formidable challenge. Existing Vision-Language-Action models demand prohibitive data scales, while keyframe-based approaches struggle to reconcile the expressivity of generative models with the latency of iterative sampling. To address this trilemma, we present Flow2Act, a unified framework that integrates agglomerative perception with a deterministic one-step generative policy. Unlike prior methods relying on separate semantic encoders or iterative diffusion processes, our approach introduces three key innovations. First, we employ an agglomerative multi-teacher visual backbone that distills complementary strengths from diverse foundation models, capturing semantics, spatial structure, and segmentation to yield robust representations without task-specific pretraining. Second, we propose a conditional MeanFlow policy that parameterizes the interval-averaged velocity field. This formulation enables genuine single-step action generation, eliminating the discretization errors and computational overhead inherent in ODE-based flow matching. Third, we devise a curriculum region-aware mechanism via a Spatial-Grounded State Space Duality architecture, which progressively shifts attention from global flow stability to fine-grained contact precision. We evaluate Flow2Act on challenging simulation benchmarks and real-world robotic tasks, demonstrating significant gains in policy performance, robustness to environmental perturbations, and cross-task real-world applicability. Videos, code, and more details are available at project page.
Sen Wang, Le Wang, Hongcheng Huo et al.· IEEE Transactions on Pattern...· 0 citations
Action-conditioned world models are useful for embodied agents only when their predicted futures remain controllable by actions and stable under long-horizon rollout. We present SAMPO++, an embodied world model that treats action-conditioned prediction as a scale-decoupled controlled dynamical system rather than as conventional action-conditioned video generation. SAMPO++ couples temporal autoregression with scale-wise flow matching in a continuous latent pyramid. A multi-scale temporal planner summarizes the latent history with scale-matched recurrent states, allowing dynamics at different resolutions to be conditioned by appropriate temporal contexts. An Action-Controlled Velocity Field (ACVF) separates action free passive drift from action-induced residual dynamics, making the action an explicit bounded control input to the flow velocity instead of a passive conditioning token. To improve cross scale consistency and closed-loop stability, SAMPO++ further uses Pyramid-Consistent RoPE (PC-RoPE) and rollout-aware training, aligning scale-wise coordinates and exposing the model to its own autoregressive prediction distribution during training. Beyond standard perceptual metrics such as FVD, PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS, we evaluate world-model-native properties including action alignment, counterfactual accuracy, no-op residual, and rollout drift. We further study SAMPO++ as a learned simulator for visual planning and policy-level evaluation, where policies or action chunks can be rolled out and compared before execution. Experiments across action-conditioned robotic manipulation, visual planning, and model-based reinforcement learning, together with action-free driving video prediction, show that SAMPO++ improves visual prediction quality while providing stronger action alignment, counterfactual accuracy, no-op residual suppression, and long-horizon rollout consistency over strong discrete and continuous baselines. Videos and additional details are available on the project page.
Sen Wang, Sanpin Zhou, Huaiyi Dong et al.· IEEE Transactions on Pattern...· 0 citations