Physical Diffusion Policy via MPM-Guided 3D Gaussian Simulation

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Learning robust manipulation policies for diverse everyday objects remains challenging because objects with different materials exhibit distinct deformation and contact dynamics. While diffusion policies provide a powerful framework for modeling multimodal manipulation behaviors, they typically lack explicit physical reasoning and may produce averaged actions when facing heterogeneous objects. We present a physics-aware diffusion policy that augments visual imitation learning with object physical understanding. Our framework recovers material properties from visual demonstrations by coupling 3D Gaussian Splatting with differentiable Material Point Method simulation, where video guidance and particle-level constraints enable accurate physical parameter estimation. The estimated physics conditions are further integrated into a material-aware Mixture-of-Experts diffusion policy, allowing adaptive behavior generation across different physical regimes. For practical deployment, we introduce a physics memory bank that provides efficient physical retrieval without requiring online simulation optimization. Experiments on a wide range of simulated and real-world objects demonstrate improved manipulation success and generalization over existing diffusion-based approaches. These results show that incorporating physical knowledge is critical for scalable robot manipulation in diverse environments.

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