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October 20, 2025Open Access

Unleashing Flow Policies with Distributional Critics

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DCDeshu ChenYLYuchen LiuZZZhijian Zhou

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This research demonstrates Distributional Flow Critic's impact on multimodal action distributions in reinforcement learning, suggesting improved stability in learning signals.

Key Points

  • Distributional Flow Critic enhances flow-based policies by providing a more informative learning signal.
  • Extensive experiments show that DFC significantly improves performance on challenging tasks requiring multimodal action distributions.
  • By modeling the complete state-action return distribution, DFC overcomes limitations of traditional critics in reinforcement learning.
  • The proposed method excels in both offline and offline-to-online fine-tuning, outperforming existing approaches.

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Chen et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68f6196ee0bbbc94fac364f4https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2509.23087
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