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New BURGER benchmark tests robotic generalization for VLA models

Researchers have developed BURGER, a new benchmark for evaluating Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in robotic tasks. This benchmark focuses on language-conditioned robotic drawing, utilizing a scalable pipeline to generate diverse drawing trajectories in both simulation and the real world. Experiments with five VLA models on 28,200 simulated demonstrations revealed that increased data scale and task diversity can improve model performance, enabling them to capture multimodal behaviors and generalize to new compositions. A trained policy was successfully deployed on a Franka Panda arm, demonstrating reactive drawing capabilities. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could accelerate research into VLA models for robotics, potentially leading to more capable and generalizable robotic systems.

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    BURGER: Benchmarking and Understanding Robotic Generalization via Embodied Drawing

    How effectively can vision-language-action (VLA) models learn diverse language-conditioned behaviors as training data scales? Investigating this question requires large and varied robot datasets, whose collection on physical robots remains costly. We introduce BURGER, a language-…