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This paper addresses the challenge of multitask learning in robotics, specifically the difficulty of modeling complex and diverse action distributions. The authors propose a novel modular diffusion policy framework that factorizes action distributions into specialized diffusion models. This approach aims to improve policy fitting, enhance flexibility for adaptation to new tasks, and mitigate catastrophic forgetting. The empirical results, demonstrating superior performance compared to existing methods, suggest a promising direction for improving robotic learning in complex environments.
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The modular structure enables flexible policy adaptation to new tasks by adding or fine-tuning components, which inherently mitigates catastrophic forgetting.

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This paper addresses a significant problem in speech-to-text systems: the difficulty of handling rare words. The proposed method offers a training-free alternative to fine-tuning, which is often costly and prone to issues like catastrophic forgetting. The use of task vectors and word-level arithmetic is a novel approach that promises scalability and reusability. The results, showing comparable or superior performance to fine-tuned models, are particularly noteworthy.
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The proposed method matches or surpasses fine-tuned models on target words, improves general performance by about 5 BLEU, and mitigates catastrophic forgetting.