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Behavior-Skill: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language-Action Policies in Long-Horizon Tasks

arXiv 2608.30536 ↗First posted 31 Aug 2026cs.ROcited by 1

On the map: Vision-language-action models → Failure recovery and robustness

Abstract (arXiv)

Reliable execution of long-horizon mobile manipulation tasks remains challenging because overall task success depends on the successful completion of multiple constituent skills. Existing benchmarks, however, still rely primarily on full-task rollouts and aggregate task-level metrics, making intermediate failures difficult to observe and analyze. We present Behavior-Skill, a benchmark that reformulates the learning and evaluation of long-horizon tasks around executable constituent skills. It contains 235,492 skill instances from 10,000 demonstrations across 50 household tasks and 34 semantic skill categories. Each instance pairs a skill instruction with an aligned observation-action segment, and is further associated with a restorable intermediate state and a skill success condition to enable independent evaluation under valid preconditions. We further introduce trajectory-level and skill-level metrics to characterize policy capability beyond aggregate task success. Extensive experiments across representative VLA policies including pi0.5 and GR00T on the complete 50-task benchmark show that failures are highly non-uniform across skills, with contact-rich manipulation skills forming persistent bottlenecks. These results demonstrate that Behavior-Skill complements full-task evaluation by exposing intermediate capability profiles for analyzing and improving long-horizon VLA policies. Behavior-Skill is publicly available at https://github.com/nubot-nudt/Behavior-Skill.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Failure recovery and robustness, one of 13 directions in Vision-language-action models. Builds on 36 of its 41 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 31 Aug 2026.

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