EBench: Elemental Diagnosis of Generalist Mobile Manipulation Policies

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EBench is a diagnostic benchmark for generalist mobile manipulation policies, providing a multi-dimensional profile across 26 tasks and 4 generalization axes, revealing structural strengths and weaknesses beyond aggregate success rates.

We present EBench, a simulation benchmark that diagnoses generalist mobile manipulation policies beyond a single success-rate scalar. EBench comprises 26 diverse and challenging manipulation tasks annotated along 5 capability dimensions and 4 generalization dimensions. We evaluate state-of-the-art generalist manipulation models including π_0, π_{0.5}, XVLA, and InternVLA-A1, and reveal that models with near success rates exhibit strikingly different capability profiles: π_{0.5} achieves the highest test success rate and the best train--test retention, whereas InternVLA-A1 dominates mobile manipulation but collapses on dexterous tasks, and XVLA exhibits strengths on a disjoint set of atomic skills compared to other policies. Beyond capability profiling, EBench analyzes the generalization ability from 4 representative perspectives, identifying the impact of different distribution shift factors. The results reveal strengths and weaknesses of models behind an overall score. We hope this benchmark offers a broad set of diagnostic signals to guide iteration on generalist manipulation models.
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Source: https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.18239 EBench is a surgical diagnosis tool for robot foundation models. It provides not a leaderboard, but ACAT scanfor your policy.

Here’s why the field needed this, and what it actually reveals about π0, π0.5, Qwen-RobotManip, and the rest:


1/ The “success rate” era is over.

Every robotics benchmark gives you a number. EBench gives you aprofile.

26 tasks, 5 dimensions: Operating Mode, Horizon, Precision, Atomic Skill, Scene. Plus 4 generalization axes: Object, Background, Instruction, Composition.

Same model can look like a genius on one slice and a toddler on another. The aggregate score was hiding everything.

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2/ The “overfitting game” is real, and EBench calls it out.

They enforce strict train-test isolation at theobject level. Validation-Train vs Validation-Unseen vs Test.

Plot val-to-test migration curves and you immediately see who’s actually generalizing vs who’s memorizing the training distribution.

π0.5 has the tightest val-test gap. That’s why the community feels it’s “good at fine-tuning.” The numbers finally explain the vibe.

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3/ Qwen-RobotManip just took #1, but the story is structural, not just numerical.

45.6% Test SR, 60.8% Test Score. But look at the five-dimensional breakdown:

  • Mobile: 43.8%
  • Dexterous: 50.0%
  • Short Horizon: 50.2%
  • Long Horizon: 33.1%
  • Low Precision: 50.6%
  • High Precision: 18.8% ← still the bottleneck

It’s not a single spike. It’s ashape. And that shape tells you exactly where to optimize next.

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