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arxiv: 2606.23090 · v2 · pith:GLG3JQ7Tnew · submitted 2026-06-22 · 💻 cs.RO

Flow as Flow: Modeling Robot Velocity Fields as Probability Velocity Fields for Flow-Based Object Manipulation

Koki Seno , Daichi Yashima , Yusuke Takagi , Kento Tokura , Komei Sugiura This is my paper

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keywords flow matchingvelocity fieldsrobot manipulationprobability flowscross-embodimentobject manipulationflow-based generation
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Modeling robot velocity fields as probability flows via flow matching enables faster generation and higher success in object manipulation.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes modeling robot flows directly as probability flows using a flow matching formulation rather than as displacements of sparse keypoints. This choice is presented as better aligned with the continuous-time character of robot motions and cross-embodiment data. The resulting method is shown to produce dense velocity fields more efficiently. On standard benchmarks the approach beats baselines on conventional metrics while running about 33 times faster; real-robot trials across 13 tasks and 260 runs per method report higher average success rates.

Core claim

By formulating robot flows as probability flows based on a flow matching formulation, the method achieves efficient and high-quality robot flow generation, outperforming representative baseline methods on standard metrics with approximately 33× faster generation and higher average success rates in real-world experiments across 13 manipulation tasks.

What carries the argument

Flow matching formulation applied to dense robot velocity fields treated as probability flows, which directly models continuous-time motion representations instead of sparse keypoint displacements.

If this is right

  • Outperforms baselines on standard metrics for flow generation.
  • Achieves approximately 33 times faster generation than compared methods.
  • Delivers higher average success rates across 13 manipulation tasks in 260 trials per method.
  • Supports use of heterogeneous cross-embodiment data for robotic foundation models.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same probability-flow treatment could be tested on continuous trajectory tasks outside manipulation, such as locomotion or navigation.
  • Integration into larger foundation-model training pipelines may reduce the need for explicit keypoint extraction steps.
  • Performance gains might scale differently when the amount of cross-embodiment data increases substantially beyond the current experiments.

Load-bearing premise

The premise that dense velocity fields formulated as probability flows within flow matching inherently better capture the continuous-time nature of motions and yield superior performance compared with sparse keypoint displacements.

What would settle it

A head-to-head evaluation on the same 13 real-world tasks with identical training data and compute budget in which any baseline method matches or exceeds both the reported generation speed and success rate.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.23090 by Daichi Yashima, Kento Tokura, Koki Seno, Komei Sugiura, Yusuke Takagi.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of our framework. We use cross-embodiment data for training, which include human demonstrations as an additional embodiment. Our framework, Flow as Flow, models robot flows (robot velocity fields) as probability flows using flow matching. At test time, it generates a robot flow conditioned on an initial image and a goal image. The robot then executes object manipulation based on the generated flow… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Architecture of our method. The Flow Generation module generates X0:H−1, and the Action Generation module predicts at based on it. Xh and X<h denote the point coordinates at timestep h and their history, respectively. NDiT and N′ DiT are the numbers of the DiT blocks in the Flow Generation module and the Action Generation module, respectively. formulated as velocity fields. Thus, Flow as Flow formulates ro… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative comparison of robot flow generation between our method and a baseline [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Representative examples from our real-world experiments. We conducted experiments [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative results of our method in real-world experiments, showing three successful [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative comparison of end-effector masks. The left image shows I, and the other images present generated masks of SAM3 [82], Robot-SAM [83] without fine-tuning, and Robot￾SAM with fine-tuning. The generated segmentation masks are overlaid in purple. 2 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: shows representative cases from Fractal [11] and Bridge V2 [12] in which evaluating the full keypoint set was problematic. In both cases, the predicted robot flows qualitatively represented ap￾propriate end-effector motions. Specifically, the generated flow in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: A failure case for Fanuc Manipulation. The four left columns show frames from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Conceptual difference between conventional diffusion-based generation and Flow as Flow. Flow as Flow substantially accelerates diffusion-based flow generation methods by unifying generation steps with the flow horizon. Bussing table: Grasp the specified object on a table and place it into the designated receptacle, either a bin or a cardboard box, after rotating the mobile base. Compared with “bin picking,… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Additional qualitative results in the real-world experiments. The left column represents [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_10.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Cross-embodiment data have become central to training robotic foundation models. To leverage such heterogeneous data, we focus on flow-based object manipulation, where robot flows (robot velocity fields) serve as embodiment-agnostic motion representations. Previous studies do not formulate robot flows as dense velocity fields, but as displacements of sparse keypoints, while such velocity fields better match the continuous-time nature of motions. We propose Flow as Flow, a framework that models robot flows as probability flows based on a flow matching formulation. By naturally modeling such velocity fields within this formulation, our method achieves efficient and high-quality robot flow generation. Across standard benchmarks, our method outperforms representative baseline methods on standard metrics, while achieving approximately 33$\times$ faster generation. Furthermore, through real-world experiments evaluating 9 methods with 260 trials per method across 13 manipulation tasks, we show that our method achieves a higher average success rate than the baseline methods. Our project page is available at https://flow-as-flow-u0n5y.kinsta.page.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes 'Flow as Flow', a framework modeling robot velocity fields as probability flows via flow matching to serve as embodiment-agnostic representations for object manipulation from cross-embodiment data. It claims this dense formulation better matches continuous-time motions than prior sparse keypoint displacements, yielding ~33x faster generation on benchmarks and higher average success rates than 9 baselines across 260 trials per method on 13 real-world tasks.

Significance. If the central modeling claim holds after proper isolation of the probability-flow choice, the work could strengthen flow-based manipulation by supplying a dense, continuous-time velocity-field representation that improves efficiency and real-world reliability when training on heterogeneous robot data.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract, §3] Abstract and §3 (method): the central claim that formulating robot flows as probability flows 'naturally' produces the reported 33× speedup and higher success rates is not supported by any derivation showing why the flow-matching ODE is required rather than optional, nor by an ablation that holds network architecture, training data, and optimization fixed while switching only between dense probability velocity fields and sparse keypoint displacements.
  2. [§4] §4 (experiments): performance numbers are reported without baseline descriptions, metric definitions, error bars, or statistical tests; the 33× speedup and success-rate gains cannot be attributed to the probability-flow modeling choice on the evidence supplied.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'standard benchmarks' and 'standard metrics' should be replaced by explicit citations to the datasets and metrics used.
  2. [Abstract] Project page URL should be checked for permanence and content matching the manuscript claims.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for their constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and outline the revisions we will make.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract, §3] Abstract and §3 (method): the central claim that formulating robot flows as probability flows 'naturally' produces the reported 33× speedup and higher success rates is not supported by any derivation showing why the flow-matching ODE is required rather than optional, nor by an ablation that holds network architecture, training data, and optimization fixed while switching only between dense probability velocity fields and sparse keypoint displacements.

    Authors: The flow-matching formulation is selected because it directly parameterizes dense, continuous-time velocity fields as probability flows, aligning with the continuous nature of robot motions in a way that sparse keypoint displacements do not. While this motivation is stated conceptually in the manuscript, we acknowledge that an explicit derivation isolating the ODE and a controlled ablation would strengthen the attribution. In the revised manuscript we will add a derivation in §3 explaining why the flow-matching ODE is required for this dense representation and include an ablation that holds network architecture, data, and optimization fixed while varying only the dense probability velocity field versus sparse keypoint formulation. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (experiments): performance numbers are reported without baseline descriptions, metric definitions, error bars, or statistical tests; the 33× speedup and success-rate gains cannot be attributed to the probability-flow modeling choice on the evidence supplied.

    Authors: We agree that the experimental reporting requires additional detail for reproducibility and to support attribution of gains to the modeling choice. In the revised §4 we will expand all baseline descriptions, provide precise metric definitions, add error bars to all quantitative results, and include statistical tests (e.g., paired significance tests) on the reported speedups and success rates. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; derivation chain self-contained against external benchmarks

full rationale

The abstract and method description introduce a modeling choice (robot velocity fields as probability flows via flow matching) and report empirical gains (33x speedup, higher success rates) without any equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations that reduce the claimed advantage to a quantity defined by the inputs themselves. No self-definitional steps, fitted-input predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear. The central premise is presented as an empirical modeling decision whose optimality is asserted via performance on benchmarks and real-world trials rather than by algebraic reduction or prior-author uniqueness theorems. This is the most common honest finding for papers whose contributions rest on implementation and evaluation rather than closed-form derivation.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review yields no identifiable free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the modeling choice is described at the level of a formulation rather than explicit assumptions or new entities.

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