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One Policy Takes On a Hundred Household Tasks

An independent BEHAVIOR Challenge team trained one checkpoint across 211 million demonstration frames, then routed fourteen hard tasks to a coding agent.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-11-11-009
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Summary

An independent BEHAVIOR Challenge team trained one checkpoint across 211 million demonstration frames, then routed fourteen hard tasks to a coding agent.

An independent team reports a single vision-language-action checkpoint for all 100 long-horizon tasks in the 2026 BEHAVIOR Challenge. Its learned policy scored 0.392 Q across the full set after a roughly one-pass, 200,000-step run over 211 million demonstration frames. Fourteen tasks were separately routed to a coding agent with observation and motion tools; on those tasks the authors report mean Q of 0.639 versus 0.108 for the learned policy. The public submission included only part of those agent results and finished with 0.446 Q and 27.3% full-task success.

Why it matters

An independent BEHAVIOR Challenge team trained one checkpoint across 211 million demonstration frames, then routed fourteen hard tasks to a coding agent.

Limits and context

  • The public submission included only part of those agent results and finished with 0.446 Q and 27.3% full-task success.

Key claims

  1. An independent BEHAVIOR Challenge team trained one checkpoint across 211 million demonstration frames, then routed fourteen hard tasks to a coding agent.

    Qualification: The public submission included only part of those agent results and finished with 0.446 Q and 27.3% full-task success.

    Evidence: source-2026-11-11-009

Sources

  1. arXiv:2611.14432v1arXiv / Cornell University · primary research

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