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Main Authors: Lin, Jieru, Yu, Zhiwei, Karlsson, Börje F.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17649
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author Lin, Jieru
Yu, Zhiwei
Karlsson, Börje F.
author_facet Lin, Jieru
Yu, Zhiwei
Karlsson, Börje F.
contents Autonomous agents operating in the real world must interact continuously with existing physical and semantic infrastructure, track delayed consequences, and verify outcomes over time. Everyday environments are rich in tangible control interfaces (TCIs)-e.g., light switches, appliance panels, and embedded GUI-posing core challenges for lifelong embodied agents, including partial observability, causal reasoning across time, and failure-aware verification under real-world constraints. Yet, current benchmarks rarely consider such long-horizon interaction and causality requirements. We introduce SWITCH (Semantic World Interface Tasks for Control & Handling), an embodied, task-driven benchmark created through iterative releases to probe these gaps. Its first iteration, SWITCH-Basic, evaluates five complementary abilities-task-aware VQA, semantic UI grounding, action generation, state transition prediction, and result verification-under ego-centric RGB video input and device diversity across 351 tasks spanning 98 real devices/appliances. Results from commercial and open LMMMs reveal systematic failures, highlighting critical gaps for lifelong agent deployment. SWITCH provides data, code, and held-out splits to enable reproducible non-contaminated evaluation and community contributions toward more challenging future iterations of the benchmark and the creation of relevant training data. Benchmark resources are available at: https://github.com/BAAI-Agents/SWITCH.
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spellingShingle SWITCH: Benchmarking Modeling and Handling of Tangible Interfaces in Long-horizon Embodied Scenarios
Lin, Jieru
Yu, Zhiwei
Karlsson, Börje F.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Autonomous agents operating in the real world must interact continuously with existing physical and semantic infrastructure, track delayed consequences, and verify outcomes over time. Everyday environments are rich in tangible control interfaces (TCIs)-e.g., light switches, appliance panels, and embedded GUI-posing core challenges for lifelong embodied agents, including partial observability, causal reasoning across time, and failure-aware verification under real-world constraints. Yet, current benchmarks rarely consider such long-horizon interaction and causality requirements. We introduce SWITCH (Semantic World Interface Tasks for Control & Handling), an embodied, task-driven benchmark created through iterative releases to probe these gaps. Its first iteration, SWITCH-Basic, evaluates five complementary abilities-task-aware VQA, semantic UI grounding, action generation, state transition prediction, and result verification-under ego-centric RGB video input and device diversity across 351 tasks spanning 98 real devices/appliances. Results from commercial and open LMMMs reveal systematic failures, highlighting critical gaps for lifelong agent deployment. SWITCH provides data, code, and held-out splits to enable reproducible non-contaminated evaluation and community contributions toward more challenging future iterations of the benchmark and the creation of relevant training data. Benchmark resources are available at: https://github.com/BAAI-Agents/SWITCH.
title SWITCH: Benchmarking Modeling and Handling of Tangible Interfaces in Long-horizon Embodied Scenarios
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17649