cs.ROJun 19, 2026

BayesFP: Posterior Estimation for Flow-Based Policies via Feynman-Kac Sampling

Authors: Sreevardhan SirigiriWeiming ZhiFabio Ramos

Organizations: School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney, Australia · Australian Centre For Robotics, The University of Sydney, Australia · College of Connected Computing, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA. · NVIDIA, USA

Abstract

Robots must generate trajectories that remain faithful to learned expert behavior while satisfying safety constraints and task-specific objectives specified only at inference time. We formulate constrained trajectory generation for pretrained diffusion and flow-matching policies as Bayesian posterior sampling, with the learned demonstration distribution as a prior and an inference-time, cost-derived likelihood tilting it toward feasible, optimal trajectories. To sample from this posterior without any retraining of the base policy, we leverage the Feynman--Kac corrector framework, originally formulated for diffusion models, and extend it to deterministic flow-matching policies. The result is a unified, inference-time, retraining-free sampler for diffusion and flow policies. We validate the approach on pretrained Diffusion Policy, GR00T-N1.6, and π0.5π_{0.5} checkpoints across simulated and real-world manipulation tasks, including planning around non-convex obstacles introduced at inference time, and show improvements over the base π0.5π_{0.5} on zero-shot tasks.

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