ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 21, 2026

Learning to Absorb Corrections: Critic-Weighted Residual Flow for Vision-Based Insertion

We present ACT--Flow, an online learning framework that couples an adaptive Action Chunking Transformer (ACT) with a conditional residual flow policy.

Key points

  • Vision-based insertion requires correcting alignment errors while retaining useful behavior learned from demonstrations.
  • Following anchor-guided warmup, ACT absorbs successful executed actions through behavioral cloning, while residual targets are recomputed relative to the updated prior.
  • A chunk-level critic learns from successful and failed interactions and evaluates final composed actions.
  • Component ablations further support the complementary roles of behavior absorption, value weighting, and successful-action supervision.

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