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EFF-Grasp: Energy-Field Flow Matching for Physics-Aware Dexterous Grasp Generation

arXiv cs.CV / 3/18/2026

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Key Points

  • EFF-Grasp introduces a flow-matching framework for physics-aware dexterous grasp generation by reformulating grasp synthesis as a deterministic ordinary differential equation process, enabling efficient and stable generation through smooth probability flows.
  • It adds a training-free physics-aware energy guidance strategy that defines an energy-guided target distribution using adapted explicit energy functions and estimates the guidance term via local Monte Carlo during inference to steer generations toward physically feasible grasps without additional physics-based training or simulation feedback.
  • Experiments on five benchmark datasets show superior grasp quality and physical feasibility while requiring substantially fewer sampling steps than diffusion-based baselines.
  • The proposed framework could generalize to other manipulation tasks by leveraging energy-guided flow dynamics to improve planning and execution in robotics.

Abstract

Denoising generative models have recently become the dominant paradigm for dexterous grasp generation, owing to their ability to model complex grasp distributions from large-scale data. However, existing diffusion-based methods typically formulate generation as a stochastic differential equation (SDE), which often requires many sequential denoising steps and introduces trajectory instability that can lead to physically infeasible grasps. In this paper, we propose EFF-Grasp, a novel Flow-Matching-based framework for physics-aware dexterous grasp generation. Specifically, we reformulate grasp synthesis as a deterministic ordinary differential equation (ODE) process, which enables efficient and stable generation through smooth probability flows. To further enforce physical feasibility, we introduce a training-free physics-aware energy guidance strategy. Our method defines an energy-guided target distribution using adapted explicit physical energy functions that capture key grasp constraints, and estimates the corresponding guidance term via a local Monte Carlo approximation during inference. In this way, EFF-Grasp dynamically steers the generation trajectory toward physically feasible regions without requiring additional physics-based training or simulation feedback. Extensive experiments on five benchmark datasets show that EFF-Grasp achieves superior performance in grasp quality and physical feasibility, while requiring substantially fewer sampling steps than diffusion-based baselines.