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#1 RoboMME: Benchmarking and Understanding Memory for Robotic Generalist Policies [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi2] [REL]

Authors: Yinpei Dai, Hongze Fu, Jayjun Lee, Yuejiang Liu, Haoran Zhang, Jianing Yang, Chelsea Finn, Nima Fazeli, Joyce Chai

Memory is critical for long-horizon and history-dependent robotic manipulation. Such tasks often involve counting repeated actions or manipulating objects that become temporarily occluded. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models have begun to incorporate memory mechanisms; however, their evaluations remain confined to narrow, non-standardized settings. This limits systematic understanding, comparison, and progress measurement. To address these challenges, we introduce **RoboMME**: a large-scale standardized benchmark for evaluating and advancing VLA models in long-horizon, history-dependent scenarios. Our benchmark comprises 16 manipulation tasks constructed under a carefully designed taxonomy that evaluates *temporal*, *spatial*, *object*, and *procedural* memory. We further develop a suite of 14 memory-augmented VLA variants built on the $\pi_{0.5}$ backbone to systematically explore different memory representations across multiple integration strategies. We show that the effectiveness of memory representations is highly task-dependent, with each design offering distinct advantages and limitations across different tasks. Videos and code can be found at https://robomme.github.io

Subject: ICML.2026 - Oral