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Compose by Focus: Scene Graph-based Atomic Skills

arXiv 2509.16053 ↗First posted 19 Sep 2025cs.RO cs.AIcited by 4

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Abstract (arXiv)

A key requirement for generalist robots is compositional generalization - the ability to combine atomic skills to solve complex, long-horizon tasks. While prior work has primarily focused on synthesizing a planner that sequences pre-learned skills, robust execution of the individual skills themselves remains challenging, as visuomotor policies often fail under distribution shifts induced by scene composition. To address this, we introduce a scene graph-based representation that focuses on task-relevant objects and relations, thereby mitigating sensitivity to irrelevant variation. Building on this idea, we develop a scene-graph skill learning framework that integrates graph neural networks with diffusion-based imitation learning, and further combine "focused" scene-graph skills with a vision-language model (VLM) based task planner. Experiments in both simulation and real-world manipulation tasks demonstrate substantially higher success rates than state-of-the-art baselines, highlighting improved robustness and compositional generalization in long-horizon tasks.

Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 35 of its 40 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 19 Sep 2025.

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  1. 2025RoboHiMan: A Hierarchical Evaluation Paradigm for Compositional Generalization in Long-Horizon Manipulation
  2. 2026Exploring the Limits of Combinatorial Generalization in Embodied Manipulation
  3. 2023Programmatically Grounded, Compositionally Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
  4. 2025Temporal Representation Alignment: Successor Features Enable Emergent Compositionality in Robot Instruction Following
  5. 2025Learning Semantic Atomic Skills for Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation
  6. 2025DeCo: Task Decomposition and Skill Composition for Zero-Shot Generalization in Long-Horizon 3D Manipulation
  7. 2025S2-Diffusion: Generalizing from Instance-level to Category-level Skills in Robot Manipulation
  8. 2026Inductive Generalization for Robotic Manipulation