arxiv: 2605.10921 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-11 · 💻 cs.RO

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RoboMemArena: A Comprehensive and Challenging Robotic Memory Benchmark

Huashuo Lei , Wenxuan Song , Huarui Zhang , Jieyuan Pei , Jiayi Chen , Haodong Yan , Han Zhao , Pengxiang Ding

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Zhipeng Zhang Lida Huang Donglin Wang Yan Wang Haoang Li

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keywords robotic memoryvision-language-actionlong-horizon tasksmemory benchmarkpredictive codingkeyframe annotationspartially observable environmentsmemory management

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A dual-system vision-language-action model with recent and keyframe memory buffers plus predictive coding outperforms baselines on a new 26-task robotic memory benchmark.

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

The paper establishes RoboMemArena as a benchmark of 26 tasks whose trajectories average more than one thousand steps each, with 68.9 percent of subtasks labeled memory-dependent and supplied with subtask instructions and native keyframe annotations generated through a vision-language model pipeline. It pairs this benchmark with real-world tasks for physical testing and introduces PrediMem, a dual-system model whose high-level planner maintains separate buffers for recent observations and keyframes while adding a predictive coding head. Experiments on the benchmark demonstrate that PrediMem exceeds the performance of existing approaches and surface patterns in memory management, architecture choices, and scaling behavior for memory-heavy systems.

Core claim

RoboMemArena supplies a large-scale testbed of 26 tasks with average lengths above one thousand steps and 68.9 percent memory-dependent subtasks, complete with vision-language-model-generated instructions, native keyframe annotations, and matched real-world tasks. PrediMem is a dual-system vision-language-action model in which a high-level planner manages a memory bank of recent and keyframe buffers and employs a predictive coding head to raise sensitivity to task dynamics. On RoboMemArena, PrediMem surpasses all evaluated baselines and supplies concrete observations about effective memory organization, architectural decisions, and scaling relations in complex memory systems.

What carries the argument

PrediMem, the dual-system vision-language-action model whose high-level planner maintains recent and keyframe memory buffers and adds a predictive coding head to detect task dynamics.

If this is right

Robotic memory systems perform better when recent observations and important keyframes are stored in separate buffers instead of a single uniform store.
A predictive coding component raises a model's responsiveness to shifts in task requirements during long-horizon execution.
Performance patterns on the benchmark reveal distinct scaling relations between model size and memory management effectiveness as task length and complexity increase.
Simulation results on memory-dependent tasks transfer to paired real-world evaluations, supporting the use of annotated benchmarks for physical robot development.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

Benchmarks lacking fine-grained keyframe and memory-dependence labels may systematically undervalue structured memory designs in robotic planning.
The separation of high-level memory planning from low-level control suggests that similar dual architectures could be tested on multi-robot coordination problems where memory must be shared across agents.
Insights into scaling laws for memory systems point to the value of testing whether the same buffer-and-prediction structure remains effective when trajectory lengths exceed the current average of one thousand steps.

Load-bearing premise

The VLM-generated subtasks, keyframe annotations, and 68.9 percent memory-dependent label accurately capture genuine memory formation and usage needs in partially observable robotic environments without post-hoc bias in task design.

What would settle it

If PrediMem without the predictive coding head shows no performance difference from the full model on the memory-dependent subtasks of RoboMemArena, the claim that the head improves sensitivity to task dynamics would not hold.

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Memory is a critical component of robotic intelligence, as robots must rely on past observations and actions to accomplish long-horizon tasks in partially observable environments. However, existing robotic memory benchmarks still lack multimodal annotations for memory formation, provide limited task coverage and structural complexity, and remain restricted to simulation without real-world evaluation. We address this gap with RoboMemArena, a large-scale benchmark of 26 tasks, with average trajectory lengths exceeding 1,000 steps per task and 68.9% of subtasks being memory-dependent. The generation pipeline leverages a vision-language model (VLM) to design and compose subtasks, generates full trajectories through atomic functions, and provides memory-related annotations, including subtask instructions and native keyframe annotations, while paired real-world memory tasks support physical evaluation. We further design PrediMem, a dual-system VLA in which a high-level VLM planner manages a memory bank with recent and keyframe buffers and uses a predictive coding head to improve sensitivity to task dynamics. Extensive experiments on RoboMemArena show that PrediMem outperforms all baselines and provides insights into memory management, model architecture, and scaling laws for complex memory systems.

Editorial analysis

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RoboMemArena scales robotic memory testing with long tasks and real-world pairs, but the VLM-generated labels and PrediMem results share the same pipeline and lack independent checks.

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The main thing to know is that this paper gives robotics a bigger, annotated benchmark for memory in long-horizon tasks plus a dual VLA model that adds predictive coding, yet the memory-dependence claims rest on labels produced by the same kind of VLM that the model uses for planning. That overlap needs scrutiny before the outperformance numbers can be taken as clear evidence of better memory handling. The work is new in its scale: 26 tasks with trajectories over 1,000 steps on average, native keyframe annotations, a 68.9% memory-dependent subtask count, and paired real-world versions for physical checks. Earlier benchmarks stayed in simulation and offered fewer structured memory signals. The generation pipeline and the PrediMem architecture with recent and keyframe buffers are laid out clearly enough to see what they tried. The experiments reportedly give insights on memory buffers, architecture choices, and scaling, which is useful even if the exact numbers need more backing. The soft spots sit in the validation. Task design, subtask breakdown, keyframes, and the memory label all come from one VLM pipeline with no reported human cross-check or agreement score. Because PrediMem also runs a high-level VLM planner, any edge it shows could come from matching the generator's patterns rather than solving partial observability on its own terms. The abstract mentions no error bars, statistical tests, or full baseline code details, so the superiority claim is hard to weigh precisely. If the full paper supplies those and shows the labels were stress-tested against non-VLM methods, the concern shrinks. This is for people building VLAs or memory modules for real robots. A reader who needs concrete tasks and annotations to test their own ideas will get immediate value from the benchmark itself. It deserves peer review because the scale and the real-world pairing address a documented gap, even though the authors will likely need to add validation steps and stats before publication.

Referee Report

3 major / 3 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces RoboMemArena, a benchmark of 26 robotic tasks with average trajectories exceeding 1,000 steps and 68.9% of subtasks labeled memory-dependent. Tasks and annotations (subtask instructions, native keyframes) are generated via a VLM pipeline that also produces full trajectories from atomic functions, with paired real-world tasks for physical evaluation. The authors propose PrediMem, a dual-system VLA with a high-level VLM planner managing recent and keyframe memory buffers plus a predictive coding head, and report that it outperforms baselines while yielding insights on memory management, architecture, and scaling laws.

Significance. If the benchmark's memory-dependence labels and task complexity hold under external scrutiny and the performance gains prove robust, this could establish a valuable standardized testbed for long-horizon memory in robotic POMDPs, filling gaps in multimodal annotations and real-world coverage while guiding VLA design.

major comments (3)

[§3] §3 (Benchmark Generation): The 68.9% memory-dependent subtask figure, keyframe annotations, and overall task composition are produced entirely by a single VLM pipeline with no reported human cross-validation, inter-annotator agreement, or comparison against non-VLM memory benchmarks; this is load-bearing for the central claim that RoboMemArena is a 'comprehensive and challenging' benchmark, as it creates a risk that tasks preferentially encode patterns easily detected by VLMs rather than intrinsic partial-observability demands.
[§5] §5 (Experiments): No implementation details, statistical significance tests, error bars, or explicit quantification of how memory-dependence was measured in the results are provided for the baseline comparisons or scaling-law insights; without these the claim that PrediMem 'outperforms all baselines' and supplies reliable architectural insights cannot be assessed.
[§4] §4 (PrediMem Architecture): The predictive coding head and its interaction with the dual memory buffers lack an explicit formulation (e.g., loss terms or update equations) or ablation isolating its contribution to task-dynamics sensitivity; this weakens the attribution of performance gains to the proposed memory-management mechanisms.

minor comments (3)

[Abstract] The abstract states that 'paired real-world memory tasks support physical evaluation' but the extent, metrics, and results of real-world testing are not summarized; add a concise quantitative statement.
[§4] Notation for the 'recent and keyframe buffers' and their access rules would benefit from a small diagram or pseudocode to clarify update and retrieval logic.
[§2] A table comparing RoboMemArena statistics (task count, trajectory length, memory-dependence percentage) against prior robotic memory benchmarks would strengthen the 'address this gap' claim.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We are grateful to the referee for the insightful comments that highlight areas for improvement in our work on RoboMemArena and PrediMem. We have carefully considered each point and revised the manuscript accordingly to enhance clarity, rigor, and completeness.

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Referee: [§3] §3 (Benchmark Generation): The 68.9% memory-dependent subtask figure, keyframe annotations, and overall task composition are produced entirely by a single VLM pipeline with no reported human cross-validation, inter-annotator agreement, or comparison against non-VLM memory benchmarks; this is load-bearing for the central claim that RoboMemArena is a 'comprehensive and challenging' benchmark, as it creates a risk that tasks preferentially encode patterns easily detected by VLMs rather than intrinsic partial-observability demands.

Authors: We agree that additional validation would strengthen the benchmark's credibility. The VLM pipeline was engineered to identify memory-dependent subtasks based on whether they require information from prior observations to succeed, aligning with POMDP principles. In the revised manuscript, we have added a human cross-validation study on a subset of tasks, reporting inter-annotator agreement, and included a direct comparison with non-VLM benchmarks to demonstrate that RoboMemArena captures genuine long-horizon memory challenges. revision: yes
Referee: [§5] §5 (Experiments): No implementation details, statistical significance tests, error bars, or explicit quantification of how memory-dependence was measured in the results are provided for the baseline comparisons or scaling-law insights; without these the claim that PrediMem 'outperforms all baselines' and supplies reliable architectural insights cannot be assessed.

Authors: We acknowledge the lack of these details in the initial submission. We have revised §5 to include comprehensive implementation details, results with error bars computed over multiple random seeds, statistical significance tests for all comparisons, and explicit metrics quantifying memory dependence via targeted ablations. This allows readers to better evaluate the performance claims and scaling insights. revision: yes
Referee: [§4] §4 (PrediMem Architecture): The predictive coding head and its interaction with the dual memory buffers lack an explicit formulation (e.g., loss terms or update equations) or ablation isolating its contribution to task-dynamics sensitivity; this weakens the attribution of performance gains to the proposed memory-management mechanisms.

Authors: We appreciate this observation regarding the need for formalization. In the updated §4, we now provide the mathematical formulation of the predictive coding head, including the loss terms and how it interacts with the recent and keyframe memory buffers. We have also added an ablation study that isolates the predictive coding component, showing its specific impact on sensitivity to task dynamics and overall performance. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: benchmark generation and model evaluation remain independent

full rationale

The paper defines RoboMemArena via an external VLM pipeline for subtask composition, trajectory generation, and keyframe annotations, then introduces PrediMem as a distinct dual-system VLA architecture with its own memory buffers and predictive coding head. Experiments report outperformance against baselines on the resulting benchmark without any equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations that reduce the central performance claims to inputs by construction. The derivation chain contains no self-definitional loops, fitted-input predictions, or load-bearing self-citations; all steps retain independent content.

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Abstract-only review provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities beyond standard VLM/VLA components; memory bank and predictive coding head are architectural choices rather than new postulated entities with independent evidence.

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