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Gaussian Distillation of Flow Policies

/ Paper arXiv 2610.40271

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0.02%…a flow policy's final layer with a Gaussian readout trained on just 0.02% of eligible states

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Flow policies are among the strongest robot controllers and are well suited to modelling multimodal action distributions. Our analysis shows that the continuous-action distributions of the studied flow policies are well approximated by Gaussians. We propose the Gaussian Action Readout (GAR), which replaces a flow policy's final layer with a Gaussian readout trained on just 0.02% of eligible states, while keeping the rest of the network frozen. It samples with one action-network pass, gives closed-form likelihoods, and achieves near-teacher task success at up to twice the inference speed.

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