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David McAllister

4 accepted papers

2026

Flow Matching Policy Gradients

ICLR 2026poster

Flow-based generative models, including diffusion models, excel at modeling continuous distributions in high-dimensional spaces. In this work, we introduce Flow Policy Optimization (FPO), a simple on-policy reinforcement learning algorithm that brings flow matching into the policy gradient framework…

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2025

Visual Imitation Enables Contextual Humanoid Control

CoRL 2025oral

How can we teach humanoids to climb staircases and sit on chairs using the surrounding environment context? Arguably the simplest way is to _just show them_—casually capture a human motion video and feed it to humanoids. We introduce **VideoMimic**, a real-to-sim-to-real pipeline that mines everyday…

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2024

Rethinking Score Distillation as a Bridge Between Image Distributions

NeurIPS 2024poster

Score distillation sampling (SDS) has proven to be an important tool, enabling the use of large-scale diffusion priors for tasks operating in data-poor domains. Unfortunately, SDS has a number of characteristic artifacts that limit its utility in general-purpose applications. In this paper, we make…

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