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RoboPhys-3D: A Comprehensive Embodied World Model Evaluation via 3D Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.28718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models increasingly serve as data engines, action planners, and simulators for embodied AI, but conventional embodied world model (EWM) benchmarks lack a unified 3D-grounded protocol for establishing whether generated rollouts preserve the underlying 3D scene state or translate into executable actions. We introduce RoboPhys-3D, a 3D-grounded EWM benchmark built on RoboTwin 2.0, covering 50 manipulation tasks across four regimes, with 5,000 episodes and 25,000 multi-view ground-truth videos. A defining feature of RoboPhys-3D is that generated and ground-truth videos are processed through the same 3D reconstruction pipeline, enabling reconstruction-induced error to be distinguished from generation-induced error. The RoboPhys-3D benchmark organizes 50 complementary metrics into 18 sub-dimensions across four levels: pixel-level fidelity, 3D geometry consistency, state-level understanding, and task-level completeness. We further introduce Average Full Score, a hierarchical score averaging all 50 metrics for comprehensive evaluation, and RoboPhyscore, a compact task-aligned score averaging the metrics most strongly correlated with task success. Among the four representative video world models, Cosmos 3 achieves the highest RoboPhyscore (0.6330, 92.7% of ground truth), while state- and execution-grounded metrics reveal substantial failures that perceptual and vision-language model-based judgments fail to capture. RoboPhyscore further exhibits strong agreement with human evaluation (Pearson r = 0.9761 and Spearman \r{ho} = 0.8962), demonstrating the importance of grounded, execution-aware evaluation for EWM capability.

SourcearXiv RoboticsAuthor: Tianyi Wang, Jiazhou Chen, Yiming Xu, Xiangyu Li, Tianyi Zeng, Chih-Hsien Chou, Ning Lu, Liang Peng, Junfeng Jiao, Christian Claudel

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Title:RoboPhys-3D: A Comprehensive Embodied World Model Evaluation via 3D Reconstruction

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Abstract:Video world models increasingly serve as data engines, action planners, and simulators for embodied AI, but conventional embodied world model (EWM) benchmarks lack a unified 3D-grounded protocol for establishing whether generated rollouts preserve the underlying 3D scene state or translate into executable actions. We introduce RoboPhys-3D, a 3D-grounded EWM benchmark built on RoboTwin 2.0, covering 50 manipulation tasks across four regimes, with 5,000 episodes and 25,000 multi-view ground-truth videos. A defining feature of RoboPhys-3D is that generated and ground-truth videos are processed through the same 3D reconstruction pipeline, enabling reconstruction-induced error to be distinguished from generation-induced error. The RoboPhys-3D benchmark organizes 50 complementary metrics into 18 sub-dimensions across four levels: pixel-level fidelity, 3D geometry consistency, state-level understanding, and task-level completeness. We further introduce Average Full Score, a hierarchical score averaging all 50 metrics for comprehensive evaluation, and RoboPhyscore, a compact task-aligned score averaging the metrics most strongly correlated with task success. Among the four representative video world models, Cosmos 3 achieves the highest RoboPhyscore (0.6330, 92.7% of ground truth), while state- and execution-grounded metrics reveal substantial failures that perceptual and vision-language model-based judgments fail to capture. RoboPhyscore further exhibits strong agreement with human evaluation (Pearson r = 0.9761 and Spearman \r{ho} = 0.8962), demonstrating the importance of grounded, execution-aware evaluation for EWM capability.

Comments: 66 pages, 12 figures, 55 tables

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Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Emerging Technologies (cs.ET); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.28718

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