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BayesFP: Posterior Estimation for Flow-Based Policies via Feynman-Kac Sampling

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Robots must generate trajectories that remain faithful to learned expert behavior while satisfying safety constraints and task-specific objectives specified only at inference time. We formulate constrained trajectory generation for pretrained diffusion and flow-matching policies as Bayesian posterior sampling, with the learned demonstration distribution as a prior and an inference-time, cost-derived likelihood tilting it toward feasible, optimal trajectories. To sample from this posterior without any retraining of the base policy, we leverage the Feynman--Kac corrector framework, originally formulated for diffusion models, and extend it to deterministic flow-matching policies. The result is a unified, inference-time, retraining-free sampler for diffusion and flow policies. We validate the approach on pretrained Diffusion Policy, GR00T-N1.6, and $\pi_{0.5}$ checkpoints across simulated and real-world manipulation tasks, including planning around non-convex obstacles introduced at inference time, and show improvements over the base $\pi_{0.5}$ on zero-shot tasks.

Sreevardhan Sirigiri, Weiming Zhi, Fabio Ramos• 2026

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TaskDatasetResultRank
BBQSauceInBin collision avoidanceπ0.5 Simulation tasks v1 (test)
Collision Rate17.9
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HammersInLeftBin collision avoidanceπ0.5 Simulation tasks v1 (test)
Collision Rate2.8
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LIBERO-Obj. + V-shape obstacle collision avoidanceLIBERO v1 (test)
Collision Rate14
5
LIBERO-Obj. + cylinder obstacle collision avoidanceLIBERO v1 (test)
Collision Rate0.00e+0
5
FoodPacking2Cans collision avoidanceπ0.5 Simulation v1 (test)
Collision Rate3
5
TakeMugsOffOfShelf collision avoidanceπ0.5 Simulation tasks v1 (test)
Collision Rate9.9
5
Can + cylinder obstacle collision avoidanceSimulation v1 (test)
Collision Rate0.00e+0
4
Transport + cylinder obstacle collision avoidanceSimulation v1 (test)
Collision Rate4
4
BimodalMugSelectionReal-world SO101 arm (inference)
Correct-mug Rate100
2
PickAndPlaceReal-world SO101 arm (inference)
Collision Rate6
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