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arxiv:2608.30536

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

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Abstract

Behavior-Skill is a benchmark that evaluates long-horizon mobile manipulation by decomposing tasks into independently assessable constituent skills with aligned observations, actions, and success conditions.

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.

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