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ISS Policy : Scalable Diffusion Policy with Implicit Scene Supervision

arXiv 2512.15020 ↗First posted 17 Dec 2025cs.ROcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Vision-based imitation learning has enabled impressive robotic manipulation skills, but action imitation alone provides limited supervision of the geometric consequences of robot behavior. To address this limitation, we introduce **Implicit Scene Supervision (ISS) Policy**, a 3D visuomotor diffusion policy with a DiT backbone that predicts continuous action sequences from point-cloud observations. ISS augments action diffusion with a supervised robot motion predictor that maps generated actions and robot-state context to end-effector motion, and then uses the predicted motion together with gripper intent to forecast future point-cloud representations. By explicitly modeling the intermediate transition from action to robot motion, ISS encourages the policy to capture how its actions affect the surrounding 3D scene. We further introduce asymmetric gradient routing to separate direct motion regression from scene-level policy supervision, together with a change-balanced objective that accounts for variations in scene-change magnitude. These auxiliary objectives provide dynamics-aware geometric supervision using only expert demonstrations, without requiring additional annotations or auxiliary modules at inference time. ISS Policy achieves state-of-the-art performance on single-arm manipulation tasks in MetaWorld and dexterous manipulation tasks in Adroit, while real-world dual-arm experiments further demonstrate its effectiveness on physical robotic manipulation. The resulting framework preserves the scalable DiT backbone and standard diffusion-policy control interface. Code and videos will be released.

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