RoboHiMan: A Hierarchical Evaluation Paradigm for Compositional Generalization in Long-Horizon Manipulation

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Main Authors: Chen, Yangtao, Chen, Zixuan, Chan, Nga Teng, Chen, Junting, Yin, Junhui, Shi, Jieqi, Gao, Yang, Li, Yong-Lu, Huo, Jing
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author Chen, Yangtao
Chen, Zixuan
Chan, Nga Teng
Chen, Junting
Yin, Junhui
Shi, Jieqi
Gao, Yang
Li, Yong-Lu
Huo, Jing
author_facet Chen, Yangtao
Chen, Zixuan
Chan, Nga Teng
Chen, Junting
Yin, Junhui
Shi, Jieqi
Gao, Yang
Li, Yong-Lu
Huo, Jing
contents Enabling robots to flexibly schedule and compose learned skills for novel long-horizon manipulation under diverse perturbations remains a core challenge. Early explorations with end-to-end VLA models show limited success, as these models struggle to generalize beyond the training distribution. Hierarchical approaches, where high-level planners generate subgoals for low-level policies, bring certain improvements but still suffer under complex perturbations, revealing limited capability in skill composition. However, existing benchmarks primarily emphasize task completion in long-horizon settings, offering little insight into compositional generalization, robustness, and the interplay between planning and execution. To systematically investigate these gaps, we propose RoboHiMan, a hierarchical evaluation paradigm for compositional generalization in long-horizon manipulation. RoboHiMan introduces HiMan-Bench, a benchmark of atomic and compositional tasks under diverse perturbations, supported by a multi-level training dataset for analyzing progressive data scaling, and proposes three evaluation paradigms (vanilla, decoupled, coupled) that probe the necessity of skill composition and reveal bottlenecks in hierarchical architectures. Experiments highlight clear capability gaps across representative models and architectures, pointing to directions for advancing models better suited to real-world long-horizon manipulation tasks. Videos and open-source code can be found on our project website: https://chenyt31.github.io/robo-himan.github.io/.
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spellingShingle RoboHiMan: A Hierarchical Evaluation Paradigm for Compositional Generalization in Long-Horizon Manipulation
Chen, Yangtao
Chen, Zixuan
Chan, Nga Teng
Chen, Junting
Yin, Junhui
Shi, Jieqi
Gao, Yang
Li, Yong-Lu
Huo, Jing
Robotics
Enabling robots to flexibly schedule and compose learned skills for novel long-horizon manipulation under diverse perturbations remains a core challenge. Early explorations with end-to-end VLA models show limited success, as these models struggle to generalize beyond the training distribution. Hierarchical approaches, where high-level planners generate subgoals for low-level policies, bring certain improvements but still suffer under complex perturbations, revealing limited capability in skill composition. However, existing benchmarks primarily emphasize task completion in long-horizon settings, offering little insight into compositional generalization, robustness, and the interplay between planning and execution. To systematically investigate these gaps, we propose RoboHiMan, a hierarchical evaluation paradigm for compositional generalization in long-horizon manipulation. RoboHiMan introduces HiMan-Bench, a benchmark of atomic and compositional tasks under diverse perturbations, supported by a multi-level training dataset for analyzing progressive data scaling, and proposes three evaluation paradigms (vanilla, decoupled, coupled) that probe the necessity of skill composition and reveal bottlenecks in hierarchical architectures. Experiments highlight clear capability gaps across representative models and architectures, pointing to directions for advancing models better suited to real-world long-horizon manipulation tasks. Videos and open-source code can be found on our project website: https://chenyt31.github.io/robo-himan.github.io/.
title RoboHiMan: A Hierarchical Evaluation Paradigm for Compositional Generalization in Long-Horizon Manipulation
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13149