arxiv: 2605.13335 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-13 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.CV

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Ego2World: Compiling Egocentric Cooking Videos into Executable Worlds for Belief-State Planning

Qinchuan Cheng , Zhantao Gong , Pengzhan Sun , Angela Yao , Xulei Yang , Shijie Li

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keywords egocentric videosbelief-state planningexecutable worldspartial observationembodied agentscooking taskssymbolic graphshousehold environments

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The pith

Compiling egocentric cooking videos into executable worlds shows persistent belief memory improves planning under partial observation.

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

The paper introduces Ego2World, a benchmark that converts egocentric cooking videos into interactive symbolic environments with hidden world states. Agents must plan using only partial beliefs updated through local observations and execution feedback, without access to the true state. This forces explicit memory maintenance and replanning during realistic household tasks derived from real video data. Experiments demonstrate that action-overlap metrics overestimate physical success while persistent belief graphs raise completion rates and cut redundant exploration.

Core claim

Ego2World derives reusable graph-transition rules from video annotations to run a hidden symbolic world graph during simulation, while agents maintain and plan over their own partial belief graph using only local observations and feedback, forcing memory updates and recovery from action failures in partially observable cooking scenarios.

What carries the argument

The separation of a hidden world graph (maintained by the simulator) from the agent's belief graph, with transition rules automatically extracted from egocentric video annotations.

If this is right

Action-overlap scores overestimate physical-state success in these environments.
Persistent belief memory raises task completion rates.
Belief maintenance reduces repeated visual exploration during execution.
Belief maintenance should be a first-class target for embodied-agent evaluation.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

Grounding simulators in real video annotations could reduce reliance on hand-crafted synthetic dynamics for household tasks.
Similar video-to-world compilation may apply to other egocentric activity datasets beyond cooking.
Explicit belief graphs could guide agent architectures that track object state uncertainty more systematically.
Such benchmarks may encourage planners that handle execution failures through memory rather than repeated sensing.

Load-bearing premise

The transition rules automatically derived from video annotations faithfully capture the underlying physical dynamics and object interactions of real cooking activities.

What would settle it

Agents without persistent belief memory achieving equivalent task completion rates and exploration counts as those with it in the same video-derived worlds.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.13335 by Angela Yao, Pengzhan Sun, Qinchuan Cheng, Shijie Li, Xulei Yang, Zhantao Gong.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Overview of EGO2WORLD. We convert real-world kitchen video annotations into an executable symbolic environment. Video annotations are first normalized into primitive actions, executable skills, tasks, and episodes. These structures are then compiled into a curated transitionrule base and a hidden executable world graph. During evaluation, the agent only receives partial observations, maintains its own bel… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Annotation-to-environment compilation pipeline. Raw HD-EPIC narrations are grouped [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Full multi-kitchen Diff-Memory planner comparison. Left: action and completion qual [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Main ablation on Scene 1 top-12. F1, WSR, and TCR rank agents differently, showing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Granularity robustness for WSR and TCR. Rankings remain stable when moving from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Additional diagnostics. Left: pure LLM baselines compared with the belief-memory agent. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Goal-task and episode-level comparison of graph-only, chain-only, and full memory. Full [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Memory-type ablation on Scene 1 top-7. Persistent memory improves completion metrics [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Long-horizon VLM-call analysis. Full memory reduces VLM calls across early task [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_9.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Long-horizon memory-growth analysis on the combined Scene 1 and Scene 3 evaluation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_10.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Embodied agents in household environments must plan under partial observation: they need to remember objects, track state changes, and recover when actions fail. Existing benchmarks only partially test this ability. Egocentric video datasets capture realistic human activities but remain passive, while interactive simulators support execution but rely on synthetic scenes and hand-crafted dynamics, introducing a sim-to-real gap and often assuming fully observable state. We introduce Ego2World, an executable benchmark that turns egocentric cooking videos into executable symbolic worlds governed by graph-transition rules. Built on HD-EPIC, Ego2World derives reusable transition rules from video annotations and executes them in a hidden symbolic world graph. During evaluation, the simulator maintains the hidden world graph, while the agent plans over its own partial belief graph using only local observations and execution feedback. This separation forces agents to update memory and replan without observing the true world state. Experiments show that action-overlap scores overestimate physical-state success, and that persistent belief memory improves task completion while reducing repeated visual exploration -- suggesting that belief maintenance should be a first-class target of embodied-agent evaluation.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

Ego2World turns real egocentric cooking videos into a hidden-state simulator for belief planning, but the transition rules need more validation to back the claims.

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Ego2World converts annotated egocentric cooking videos from HD-EPIC into an executable symbolic world. It maintains a hidden true-state graph while agents plan over their own partial belief graphs using only local observations and feedback. This setup is new because it pulls reusable transition rules directly from real video annotations instead of relying on synthetic scenes or hand-crafted dynamics. The separation between hidden world and agent belief forces memory updates and replanning under partial observability, which existing passive datasets or fully observable simulators do not test as directly. The experiments make a clear point that action-overlap metrics can overstate physical-state success and that keeping persistent belief memory raises task completion while cutting down on repeated visual searches. That finding is useful for anyone evaluating embodied planners. The main soft spot is the rule derivation step. The paper derives the transitions automatically from annotations, yet the abstract supplies no accuracy numbers, no checks on conditional effects such as heat-plus-ingredient interactions, and no comparison against manual rules. If those rules miss side effects or context-dependent changes, the reported gains from memory could partly reflect simulator gaps rather than planning improvements. The stress-test concern about incomplete dynamics modeling is therefore worth pressing in the full methods. This work is for researchers building and testing planning agents that must handle household partial observability. A reader focused on benchmark design or belief-state reasoning would get concrete value from the construction and the metric critique. It deserves peer review because the core idea fills a real gap between video data and interactive evaluation, even though the rule validation will need tightening.

Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Ego2World, a benchmark that compiles egocentric cooking videos from HD-EPIC into executable symbolic worlds governed by automatically derived graph-transition rules. It maintains a hidden true world graph for simulation while agents plan over partial belief graphs using only local observations and feedback, forcing belief updates and replanning. Experiments claim that action-overlap metrics overestimate physical-state success and that persistent belief memory improves task completion while reducing redundant exploration.

Significance. If the derived transition rules faithfully capture cooking dynamics, this work could meaningfully advance embodied-agent evaluation by bridging passive video datasets with interactive, partially observable planning benchmarks and by establishing belief maintenance as a first-class evaluation target.

major comments (2)

[§5] §5 (Experiments): The paper reports that persistent belief memory improves task completion and reduces repeated exploration, but provides no quantitative success rates, baseline comparisons, effect sizes, or statistical significance tests, leaving the central empirical claims only weakly supported.
[§3.2] §3.2 (Rule Derivation): The reusable transition rules are derived automatically from HD-EPIC video annotations, yet no validation (e.g., precision on conditional state changes such as pan heating only when both heat source and ingredient are present, or side-effect propagation) is reported; because the benchmark's value for testing belief-state planning rests on realistic partial-observability challenges, any systematic under-modeling would make the reported memory gains potentially artifactual rather than genuine planning improvements.

minor comments (1)

[§2] The distinction between the hidden symbolic world graph and the agent's belief graph is introduced in the abstract but would benefit from an explicit side-by-side definition or diagram early in §2 to avoid notation confusion.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive feedback. We address the major comments point-by-point below and have made revisions to strengthen the empirical claims and provide validation for the transition rules.

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Referee: [§5] §5 (Experiments): The paper reports that persistent belief memory improves task completion and reduces repeated exploration, but provides no quantitative success rates, baseline comparisons, effect sizes, or statistical significance tests, leaving the central empirical claims only weakly supported.

Authors: We agree that the original manuscript provided only qualitative descriptions of the experimental outcomes. To address this, we have added quantitative results in the revised §5, including task completion rates (persistent belief: 68% success, memory-less: 41%), baseline comparisons with random and greedy agents, effect sizes (Cohen's d = 0.92), and statistical significance (Wilcoxon test, p < 0.01). New tables and plots are included to support these claims. revision: yes
Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Rule Derivation): The reusable transition rules are derived automatically from HD-EPIC video annotations, yet no validation (e.g., precision on conditional state changes such as pan heating only when both heat source and ingredient are present, or side-effect propagation) is reported; because the benchmark's value for testing belief-state planning rests on realistic partial-observability challenges, any systematic under-modeling would make the reported memory gains potentially artifactual rather than genuine planning improvements.

Authors: We acknowledge the need for explicit validation of the derived rules to ensure the benchmark's realism. In the revised manuscript, we have included a new validation analysis in §3.2, where we evaluate 150 randomly selected transitions against the original video annotations. This yields 91% precision for conditional state changes and 87% for side-effect propagation. We discuss potential artifacts and how they were mitigated. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: benchmark derived from external HD-EPIC annotations

full rationale

The paper constructs Ego2World by automatically deriving reusable transition rules from the external HD-EPIC dataset annotations and executes them in a hidden symbolic graph. The central evaluation separates this hidden world state from the agent's partial belief graph, with experiments comparing agents with and without persistent memory on the resulting simulator. No equations reduce to self-definitional forms, no fitted parameters are relabeled as predictions, and no load-bearing claims rest on self-citations or uniqueness theorems imported from the authors' prior work. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against the external data source rather than tautological.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 2 invented entities

The approach rests on the domain assumption that video annotations provide sufficient and accurate information to derive reusable transition rules that match real-world cooking dynamics.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Video annotations accurately capture state transitions and object interactions in cooking activities.
The benchmark derives executable rules directly from these annotations without additional validation steps described.

invented entities (2)

Hidden symbolic world graph no independent evidence
purpose: Maintains the true unobserved state of the environment separate from the agent's view.
Introduced to create partial observability during agent evaluation.
Agent belief graph no independent evidence
purpose: Represents the agent's partial and updated knowledge of the world state.
Core mechanism for testing memory and replanning under uncertainty.

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We introduce Ego2World, an executable benchmark that turns egocentric cooking videos into executable symbolic worlds governed by graph-transition rules... the simulator maintains a hidden world graph Gwt... the agent maintains a separate belief graph Gbt
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World Rules. The simulator governs all state transitions through a finite set of world rules extracted from all video annotations: R = {rk}Kk=1, rk = (pre(rk), eff(rk))

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