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DiffusionAnything: End-to-End In-context Diffusion Learning for Unified Navigation and Pre-Grasp Motion

Iana Zhura, Yara Mahmoud, Jeffrin Sam, Hung Khang Nguyen, Didar Seyidov, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera, Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Year
2026
Access
Open access

Abstract

Efficiently predicting motion plans directly from vision remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, where planning typically requires explicit goal specification and task-specific design. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models infer actions directly from visual input but demand massive computational resources, extensive training data, and fail zero-shot in novel scenes. We present a unified image-space diffusion policy handling both meter-scale navigation and centimeter-scale manipulation via multi-scale feature modulation, with only 5 minutes of self-supervised data per task. Three key innovations drive the framework: (1) Multi-scale FiLM conditioning on task mode, depth scale, and spatial attention enables task-appropriate behavior in a single model; (2) trajectory-aligned depth prediction focuses metric 3D reasoning along generated waypoints; (3) self-supervised attention from AnyTraverse enables goal-directed inference without vision-language models and depth sensors. Operating purely from RGB input (2.0 GB memory, 10 Hz), the model achieves robust zero-shot generalization to novel scenes while remaining suitable for onboard deployment.

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