ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 6, 2026

One for All, All for One: Coordinated Multi-Agent Diffusion Steering via Stochastic Optimal Control

Our framework, Coordinated Multi-Agent Diffusion Steering (CMDS), treats frozen pretrained diffusion models as reusable generative primitives and coordinates their reverse processes through a learned control.

Key points

  • Deep generative models often produce structured outputs composed of interacting components.
  • We pursue a modular alternative: reuse independently trained component generators and learn only how to coordinate them to produce coherent structured outputs.
  • We formulate coordination as a stochastic optimal control problem, balancing an assembly-level reward that specifies the desired properties of the combined output against deviations from the pretrained dynamics.
  • Across multi-agent maze navigation, articulated robot planning, and text-conditioned human motion, CMDS turns frozen models into coordinated multi-agent generators.

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