Efficient Hierarchical Implicit Flow Q-learning for Offline Goal-conditioned Reinforcement Learning
About
Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) is a practical reinforcement learning paradigm that aims to learn goal-conditioned policies from reward-free offline data. Despite recent advances in hierarchical architectures such as HIQL, long-horizon control in offline GCRL remains challenging due to the limited expressiveness of Gaussian policies and the inability of high-level policies to generate effective subgoals. To address these limitations, we propose the goal-conditioned mean flow policy, which introduces an average velocity field into hierarchical policy modeling for offline GCRL. Specifically, the mean flow policy captures complex target distributions for both high-level and low-level policies through a learned average velocity field, enabling efficient action generation via one-step sampling. Furthermore, considering the insufficiency of goal representation, we introduce a LeJEPA loss that repels goal representation embeddings during training, thereby encouraging more discriminative representations and improving generalization. Experimental results show that our method achieves strong performance across both state-based and pixel-based tasks in the OGBench benchmark.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navigation | pointmaze medium navigate v0 (test) | Success Rate99.5 | 7 | |
| Navigation | pointmaze giant-navigate v0 (test) | Success Rate74.4 | 7 | |
| Stitching | pointmaze medium stitch v0 (test) | Success Rate97 | 7 | |
| Stitching | pointmaze teleport-stitch v0 (test) | Success Rate0.504 | 7 | |
| Navigation | pointmaze large navigate v0 (test) | Success Rate80.5 | 7 | |
| Navigation | pointmaze teleport-navigate v0 (test) | Success Rate39.8 | 7 | |
| Navigation | antmaze-large-navigate v0 (test) | Success Rate87.1 | 7 | |
| Navigation | antmaze giant navigate v0 (test) | Success Rate64.7 | 7 | |
| Navigation | antmaze-teleport-navigate v0 (test) | Success Rate48.5 | 7 | |
| Navigation | humanoidmaze-large-navigate v0 (test) | Success Rate28.8 | 7 |