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Diffusion Guidance Is a Controllable Policy Improvement Operator


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This document introduces CFGRL, a novel framework that bridges generative modeling, specifically diffusion guidance, and reinforcement learning. The core idea is to treat policy improvement as guiding a diffusion model, allowing for simple training akin to supervised learning while still enabling performance beyond the initial dataset. CFGRL can improve policies by combining a reference policy with an "optimality" distribution, and crucially, the degree of this improvement can be controlled during testing without retraining through a guidance weight. The paper demonstrates CFGRL's effectiveness in offline reinforcement learning and as an enhancement to goal-conditioned behavioral cloning, consistently outperforming baselines in various tasks. A key advantage highlighted is CFGRL's ability to achieve policy improvement without necessarily learning an explicit value function.

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Best AI papers explainedBy Enoch H. Kang