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arxiv: 2605.00121 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-30 · 💻 cs.RO

Predictive Spatio-Temporal Scene Graphs for Semi-Static Scenes

Miguel Saavedra-Ruiz , Charlie Gauthier , Kumaraditya Gupta , Shima Shahfar , Kirsty Ellis , Steven Parkison , Liam Paull This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.RO
keywords scene graphsspatio-temporal reasoningBayesian filterspredictive scene graphssemi-static environmentsrobot navigationtemporal reasoning3D scene understanding
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The pith

Scene graphs equipped with Bayesian filters on their edges can predict future states of semi-static environments.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper introduces a method for robots to reason about how objects in an environment will change over time when those changes follow regular patterns. It augments standard 3D scene graphs by adding special filters to the connections between objects. These filters use Bayesian updating to track and forecast spatio-semantic relationships based on past observations. A sympathetic reader would care because this allows robots to maintain accurate models of places like homes where items are moved predictably each day without constant remapping. The approach is shown to work better than previous methods in both simulations and real experiments lasting three weeks with changes every two hours.

Core claim

The authors claim that their PredictiveGraphs structure, which places Perpetua* Bayesian filters on the edges of a 3D scene graph, enables tempo-spatio-semantic reasoning. This allows the system to predict the future configuration of the scene by modeling how object relationships evolve in a structured manner over repeated observations.

What carries the argument

Perpetua* filters, which are Bayesian reasoners placed on scene graph edges to encode and predict changes in spatio-semantic relationships between objects.

If this is right

  • Robots gain the ability to anticipate object positions in cyclic daily routines, such as a mug's movement through a kitchen.
  • Prediction accuracy holds up in real-world settings with bi-hourly changes observed over three weeks.
  • The method shows robustness to distributional shifts in the environment's state.
  • Overall performance exceeds that of baseline approaches in both simulated and physical dynamic navigation tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This approach might reduce the need for robots to frequently rebuild their environmental maps in stable but changing locations.
  • Applying similar filters to other sensor data could extend predictions to more variables like lighting or temperature patterns.
  • Future tests could measure if these predictions improve the success rate of long-horizon robot tasks in homes.

Load-bearing premise

The environment's changes are structured and semi-static in ways that can be modeled effectively by Bayesian filters on the relationships in a scene graph.

What would settle it

Running the system in an environment where object movements are random and lack any detectable pattern, then checking if it still outperforms static scene graph baselines in state prediction.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.00121 by Charlie Gauthier, Kirsty Ellis, Kumaraditya Gupta, Liam Paull, Miguel Saavedra-Ruiz, Shima Shahfar, Steven Parkison.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Perpetua∗ augments open-vocabulary scene graph representations built by state-of-the-art perception algorithms to produce PredictiveGraphs. The resulting representation supports predictive tempo-spatio-semantic queries. Abstract—We have seen tremendous recent progress in our ability to build “spatio-semantic” representations that enable robots to perform complex reasoning across geometry and seman￾tics. Ho… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Perpetua∗ Bayesian Model Selection: Positive values favor the emergence model, while negative values favor the persistence model. The data gap (ta to tb) causes the model likelihood to decay, leaving the posterior influenced only by the prior until observations resume. using a weighted average of the persistence and emergence models: p(xt | Y1:N ) = X m∈{ME,MP} p(m | Y1:N )p(xt | cl ∗ , Y1:N , m), (13) whe… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Edge Update: Each semi-static object node has an associated set of Perpetua∗ estimators (one for each receptacle node it has been observed at). At prediction time, Perpetua∗ updates the presence-absence belief of each edge. session (where λ ∈ Λ and Λ is the set of all mapping sessions), and 0 otherwise. Note that these associations are local to a single session and do not yet constitute the full edge set o… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Persistence Belief: As shown, FreMEn struggles to adapt to distribution shifts, while Perpetua reverts to a cyclic pattern in the absence of data. Perpetua∗ achieves the best tradeoff between adaptation and prediction quality regardless of the choice of switching prior. guity of having multiple candidate receptacles by selecting the most likely location for each semi-static object using (15) and spawning t… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Predictive Navigation: PredictiveGraphs uses its predictive capabilities to anticipate that the shortest path to its goal is blocked (low probability). This allows it to preemptively adapt its navigation plan, choosing a path that is longer but feasible (high probability), and successfully reaching the target without visiting unnecessary locations. TABLE IV: Real-World Navigation: PredictiveGraphs en￾ables… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Weekly Test Schedule: One-week snapshot of the test set with out-of-distribution dynamics for the different objects used in the Perpetua∗ evaluation presented in Sec.VI-A. Note how Friday and Monday follow the same dynamics as the weekend, emulating a “long weekend”. 1) FreMEn Prior: Based on (9), this variant computes 1000 Fourier coefficients and selects the optimal subset via a held-out validation set o… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Computational Complexity: prediction (top) and update (bottom) steps for Perpetua∗ with a FreMEn prior versus Perpetua. Top: prediction time as a function of Fourier coefficients in Perpetua∗ and simulation steps in Perpetua. Bottom: update time with up to 1 million samples. Results are averaged over five random seeds. Perpetua∗ exhibits faster computation in both cases by replacing Perpetua’s state ma￾chi… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Dynamic Shift in ProcTHOR Adaptation Exper￾iments: Illustration of the train and test time dynamics for the adaptation experiments in Sec.VI-B4. The first week displays standard training dynamics for the “newspaper” object across three receptacles. In the second week, these dynamics change, introducing a shift that challenges predictive methods, requiring approaches capable of real-time adaptation such as … view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Real-World Environment: (Top) Top-down view showing receptacle and door bounding boxes. Receptacles are color-coded by room: pink (first room), teal (second room), and mustard (third room). Door bounding boxes are highlighted in blue. (Bottom) An isometric view of the three￾room laboratory setup used for all real-world experiments. where 1 denotes presence, 0 absence, -1 missing data, and -2 that the rece… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Qualitative Navigation Results in ProcTHOR: The top row shows a navigation sequence where PredictiveGraphs is queried 46 hours after the last map update (top-down map shown in the first row, third column of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Qualitative Navigation Result in Real-World - Topological Graph Change: Extended version of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: ProcTHOR environments: Top-down view of the different 15 ProcTHOR scenes used in the simulation experiments in Sec.VI-A2. Each scene has at least 5 rooms and a navigable space between 100 m2 and 150 m2 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_14.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

We have seen tremendous recent progress in our ability to build "spatio-semantic" representations that enable robots to perform complex reasoning across geometry and semantics. However, the vast majority of these methods lack any ability to perform reasoning across time. This is a desirable property in situations where a robot repeatedly observes an environment where instances may change in between observations, but in a structured way. Consider as an example a home environment where the location of a mug typically moves from the cupboard to a countertop to the sink and then back to the cupboard on a daily basis. We should be able to learn this cyclic behavior and use it to predict the state of the mug in the future. In this work, we propose a method that is able to perform this type of tempo-spatio-semantic reasoning. Underpinning the method is a filter, Perpetua$^*$, that performs Bayesian reasoning on the states of the environment that are observed over time. This filter is integrated within a 3D scene graph structure that we call PredictiveGraphs, where nodes represent objects and edges function as Perpetua$^*$ filters encoding spatio-semantic relationships. We validate the method in both simulation and real-world dynamic navigation tasks, where our real world experiments consist of an environment that is undergoing semi-static changes at a bi-hourly frequency over a period of three weeks. In both settings, we demonstrate that our method outperforms baselines in predicting future environment states, even in the presence of distributional shifts.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes PredictiveGraphs, a 3D scene-graph representation for semi-static scenes in which nodes represent objects and edges host Perpetua* Bayesian filters that track and predict the temporal evolution of spatio-semantic relations. The central claim is that this architecture enables accurate future-state prediction in environments with structured, recurring changes (e.g., cyclic mug movements) and that the method outperforms baselines in both simulation and a three-week real-world deployment with bi-hourly observations, even under distributional shift.

Significance. If the empirical superiority is reproducible and the filter derivations are sound, the work would fill a recognized gap between static spatio-semantic scene graphs and long-horizon robotic reasoning, offering a practical way to embed structured temporal models directly into graph edges.

major comments (2)
  1. Abstract: the claim that the method 'outperforms baselines in predicting future environment states' is presented without any quantitative metrics, error bars, or description of the evaluation protocol for the Perpetua* filter; this absence prevents assessment of whether the reported gains are load-bearing for the central contribution.
  2. The weakest assumption—that semi-static changes are sufficiently structured to be captured by independent Bayesian filters on scene-graph edges—is stated but not tested against alternative temporal models (e.g., recurrent or attention-based predictors) that might violate the independence implicit in per-edge filtering.
minor comments (2)
  1. The asterisk in 'Perpetua*' is never explained; a footnote or sentence clarifying whether it denotes a variant, a trademark, or a placeholder would improve readability.
  2. No reference is supplied for the baseline methods used in the real-world experiments; adding citations in the evaluation section would allow readers to judge the strength of the comparison.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which help clarify the presentation of our empirical results and the scope of our modeling assumptions. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make.

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  1. Referee: Abstract: the claim that the method 'outperforms baselines in predicting future environment states' is presented without any quantitative metrics, error bars, or description of the evaluation protocol for the Perpetua* filter; this absence prevents assessment of whether the reported gains are load-bearing for the central contribution.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including concrete quantitative support. The full manuscript reports mean prediction errors with standard deviations (across 10 simulation runs and the three-week real-world deployment), the bi-hourly observation protocol, and the exact baselines used; these appear in Sections 4.2, 4.3, and 5. We will revise the abstract to state the key quantitative gains (e.g., average error reduction) and reference the evaluation protocol while remaining within length limits. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The weakest assumption—that semi-static changes are sufficiently structured to be captured by independent Bayesian filters on scene-graph edges—is stated but not tested against alternative temporal models (e.g., recurrent or attention-based predictors) that might violate the independence implicit in per-edge filtering.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the paper does not empirically compare the independent per-edge filters against models that relax independence (e.g., recurrent predictors or attention over multiple edges). The design choice prioritizes modularity, per-relation interpretability, and efficient online updates, which are central to the contribution. To address the concern we will add a dedicated paragraph in the discussion section analyzing the independence assumption and include a limited ablation that replaces the set of independent filters with a single LSTM predictor operating on aggregated edge features, evaluated on the same simulation and real-world datasets. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity detected in derivation or claims

full rationale

The provided abstract and context describe an architectural proposal (Perpetua* Bayesian filters on PredictiveGraphs scene-graph edges) for modeling semi-static temporal changes, followed by empirical validation in simulation and a three-week real-world experiment with distributional-shift testing. No equations, parameter-fitting steps, or derivations appear that could reduce by construction to inputs. No load-bearing self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are referenced in the given text. The central claim (outperformance on future-state prediction) rests on external experimental benchmarks rather than tautological redefinitions or fitted-input renamings, making the work self-contained against the stated premises.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 2 invented entities

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axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Object locations in the target environments change in a structured, semi-static manner that can be modeled by Bayesian updates over repeated observations.
    Explicitly stated via the daily mug-cycle example and the claim that the filter learns cyclic behavior.
invented entities (2)
  • Perpetua* filter no independent evidence
    purpose: Bayesian reasoning on environment states observed over time, placed on scene-graph edges.
    New filter introduced as the core mechanism for temporal prediction.
  • PredictiveGraphs no independent evidence
    purpose: 3D scene graph whose edges are Perpetua* filters to enable spatio-temporal prediction.
    New graph structure proposed to host the filters.

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