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Guodong Wang, Chenkai Zhang, Qingjie Liu, Jinjin Zhang, Jiancheng Cai, Junjie Liu, Xinmin Liu

LIBERO-X presents a new benchmark for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, featuring a hierarchical evaluation protocol and a high-diversity training dataset to comprehensively assess robustness and generalization. Experiments with LIBERO-X reveal that current VLA models exhibit persistent limitations in spatial generalization, structural invariance, and multi-step reasoning.

Key insights

  • Current VLA models struggle with spatial generalization, overfitting to specific configurations and degrading significantly when objects are placed in out-of-distribution positions.
  • Models lack structural invariance, showing substantial performance drops when scene topology is reconstructed, even if semantic relationships are maintained.
  • Long-horizon tasks critically limit VLA model performance, with success rates plummeting to near zero for tasks requiring three or more sequential steps.

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