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HiPolicy: Hierarchical Multi-Frequency Action Chunking for Policy Learning

arXiv 2604.06067 ↗First posted 7 Apr 2026cs.ROcited by 5

On the map: Offline RL and imitation learning from data → Robot manipulation imitation learning

Abstract (arXiv)

Robotic imitation learning faces a fundamental trade-off between modeling long-horizon dependencies and enabling fine-grained closed-loop control. Existing fixed-frequency action chunking approaches struggle to achieve both. Building on this insight, we propose HiPolicy, a hierarchical multi-frequency action chunking framework that jointly predicts action sequences at different frequencies to capture both coarse high-level plans and precise reactive motions. We extract and fuse hierarchical features from history observations aligned to each frequency for multi-frequency chunk generation, and introduce an entropy-guided execution mechanism that adaptively balances long-horizon planning with fine-grained control based on action uncertainty. Experiments on diverse simulated benchmarks and real-world manipulation tasks show that HiPolicy can be seamlessly integrated into existing 2D and 3D generative policies, delivering consistent improvements in performance while significantly enhancing execution efficiency.

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Robot manipulation imitation learning, one of 13 directions in Offline RL and imitation learning from data. First posted on arXiv 7 Apr 2026.

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