cs.ROAug 4, 2026

PFM-HR: Pose Flow Matching for Humanoid Robots

Authors: Yukang GaoYi GuYangchen ZhouXingyu ChenZhaorui WangFanghai ZhangHanyang CaoZhengyang Shen+4 more

Organizations: 1HKUST(GZ) · 2Noitom Robotics · 4Google · 3SIGS, Tsinghua University

Abstract

Motion priors improve reinforcement learning for physics-based humanoid tracking, but temporal priors require ordered motion clips, while pose priors provide limited guidance for policy-induced pose transitions. We present Pose Flow Matching for Humanoid Robots (PFM-HR), a reusable flow matching prior trained directly on large scale unordered pose data. PFM-HR introduces the Pose Geometry Score (PGS), which quantifies how joint coordinate changes during rollouts align with the local geometry of pose variation captured by the prior. Using PGS to modulate the tracking reward guides policy exploration toward structured pose changes while keeping the prior frozen across tracking tasks. Experiments demonstrate that PFM-HR improves both single motion and general motion tracking, especially for highly dynamic motions.

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