Guowei Zou

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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Motion planning and robot control · 30% Robot manipulation · 30% Reinforcement learning · 30%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Robotics › Robot manipulation
diffusion policy
1.012026
D²PPO: Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization with Dispersive Loss · AAAI 2026
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
policy optimization
1.012026
D²PPO: Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization with Dispersive Loss · AAAI 2026
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
robot learning
1.012026
D²PPO: Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization with Dispersive Loss · AAAI 2026
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation analysis
representation collapse
0.312026
D²PPO: Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization with Dispersive Loss · AAAI 2026

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

policy optimization · 1.0dispersive loss regularization · 1.0diffusion policy · 1.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 D²PPO: Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization with Dispersive Loss
abstract
Diffusion policies excel at robotic manipulation by naturally modeling multimodal action distributions in high-dimensional spaces. Nevertheless, diffusion policies suffer from diffusion representation collapse: semantically similar observations are mapped to indistinguishable features, ultimately impairing their ability to handle subtle but critical variations required for complex robotic manipulation. To address this problem, we propose D²PPO (Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization with Dispersive Loss). D²PPO introduces dispersive loss regularization that combats representation collapse by treating all hidden representations within each batch as negative pairs. D²PPO compels the network to learn discriminative representations of similar observations, thereby enabling the policy to identify subtle yet crucial differences necessary for precise manipulation. In evaluation, we find that early-layer regularization benefits simple tasks, while late-layer regularization sharply enhances performance on complex manipulation tasks. On RoboMimic benchmarks, D²PPO achieves an average improvement of 22.7% in pre-training and 26.1% after fine-tuning, setting new SOTA results. In comparison with SOTA, the results of real-world experiments on a Franka Emika Panda robot show the excitingly high success rate of our method. The superiority of our method is especially evident in complex tasks.
Guowei Zou, Weibing Li, Hejun Wu, Yukun Qian
AAAI1