CVRODec 18, 2025

MomaGraph: State-Aware Unified Scene Graphs with Vision-Language Model for Embodied Task Planning

arXiv:2512.16909v25 citationsh-index: 54Has Code
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This addresses the need for task-oriented scene understanding in embodied AI for household robotics, representing a strong specific gain rather than a broad paradigm shift.

The paper tackles the problem of creating compact, semantically rich scene representations for household mobile manipulators by introducing MomaGraph, a unified scene graph that integrates spatial-functional relationships and part-level interactive elements, achieving 71.6% accuracy on their benchmark (+11.4% over the best baseline).

Mobile manipulators in households must both navigate and manipulate. This requires a compact, semantically rich scene representation that captures where objects are, how they function, and which parts are actionable. Scene graphs are a natural choice, yet prior work often separates spatial and functional relations, treats scenes as static snapshots without object states or temporal updates, and overlooks information most relevant for accomplishing the current task. To address these limitations, we introduce MomaGraph, a unified scene representation for embodied agents that integrates spatial-functional relationships and part-level interactive elements. However, advancing such a representation requires both suitable data and rigorous evaluation, which have been largely missing. We thus contribute MomaGraph-Scenes, the first large-scale dataset of richly annotated, task-driven scene graphs in household environments, along with MomaGraph-Bench, a systematic evaluation suite spanning six reasoning capabilities from high-level planning to fine-grained scene understanding. Built upon this foundation, we further develop MomaGraph-R1, a 7B vision-language model trained with reinforcement learning on MomaGraph-Scenes. MomaGraph-R1 predicts task-oriented scene graphs and serves as a zero-shot task planner under a Graph-then-Plan framework. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model achieves state-of-the-art results among open-source models, reaching 71.6% accuracy on the benchmark (+11.4% over the best baseline), while generalizing across public benchmarks and transferring effectively to real-robot experiments.

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