Summary of Adaflow: Imitation Learning with Variance-adaptive Flow-based Policies, by Xixi Hu et al.
AdaFlow: Imitation Learning with Variance-Adaptive Flow-Based Policies
by Xixi Hu, Bo Liu, Xingchao Liu, Qiang Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes AdaFlow, an imitation learning framework based on flow-based generative modeling, to improve Behavioral Cloning (BC) on multi-modal decision-making while maintaining efficient policy generation and diverse action generation. The authors reveal a connection between the conditional variance of the training loss and discretization error in ordinary differential equations (ODEs), leading to a variance-adaptive ODE solver that adjusts its step size for rapid inference without sacrificing diversity. AdaFlow automatically reduces to a one-step generator when the action distribution is uni-modal, achieving high performance with fast inference speed. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary AdaFlow is a new way to learn from others by making decisions quickly and wisely. The researchers found that other methods are too slow because they need to think about many possibilities at once. They created AdaFlow to be faster while still being good at making decisions. It’s like having a super smart friend who can make choices fast! |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Inference * Multi modal
