LLM-BASED CONTROL FOR SIMULATED PHYSICAL REASONING
LLM-Based Control for Simulated Physical Reasoning: Modular Evaluation in the NeurIPS Embodied Agent Interface Challenge
This paper details an LLM-based control system for simulated physical reasoning, evaluated in the NeurIPS Embodied Agent Interface Challenge. It focuses on a four-stage pipeline: goal interpretation, subgoal decomposition, action sequencing, and transition modeling. The system uses OpenAI's GPT models, achieving an 18th rank overall. Key findings highlight the importance of modular evaluation to identify errors in structural validity and groundedness, especially in schema-constrained environments like BEHAVIOR and VirtualHome.
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18th
Overall Leaderboard Rank
68.88
BEHAVIOR Score
46.96
VirtualHome Score
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Reasoning Pipeline Breakdown
LLM Performance & Reliability
Environment Differences
Error Analysis & Propagation
Reasoning Pipeline Breakdown
The paper dissects the embodied reasoning process into four distinct stages: goal interpretation, subgoal decomposition, action sequencing, and transition modeling. This modular approach is crucial for pinpointing where failures occur, distinguishing between reasoning errors and interface formatting issues. Each stage has specific symbolic inputs and outputs, enforced by strict schemas, which is a key challenge for LLMs.
LLM Performance & Reliability
Our system, using OpenAI's GPT models (GPT-4.1 for BEHAVIOR, GPT-4.1-mini for VirtualHome), ranked 18th overall. A critical finding is that reliability in LLM-based control is often limited by interface compliance (schema validity, object inventory matching) rather than just plausible text generation. Regeneration helps structural validity but doesn't fix groundedness issues.
Environment Differences
The BEHAVIOR and VirtualHome simulators present different challenges. BEHAVIOR tasks, with their richer symbolic state, show higher scores in goal interpretation and transition modeling. VirtualHome, with stricter syntactic constraints and shorter action sequences, shows higher execution-level scores in action sequencing and subgoal decomposition, but lower planner-level transition modeling scores.
Error Analysis & Propagation
Errors are categorized into structural validity failures (malformed JSON, missing keys) and groundedness failures (unsupported actions, invalid object references). The modular evaluation highlights how errors propagate, with early-stage mismatches persisting through the pipeline. Transition modeling is particularly brittle due to requirements for consistent symbolic state updates.
57.92
Overall Score (Public Leaderboard Rank 18)
Enterprise Process Flow
Goal Interpretation
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Subgoal Decomposition
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Action Sequencing
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Transition Modeling
| Metric | BEHAVIOR Score | VirtualHome Score |
|---|---|---|
| Goal Interpretation Score | 78.70 | 22.10 |
| Subgoal Decomposition (Task Level) | 49.00 | 61.80 |
| Action Sequencing (Task Success) | 75.00 | 68.90 |
| Transition Modeling (State Prediction) | 58.60 | 40.60 |
Reliability in Schema-Constrained Environments
The study emphasizes that LLM reliability in embodied AI is critically influenced by the interface's strict schemas and closed-world vocabularies. For instance, a plausible plan can fail if an object name doesn't precisely match the environment's inventory or if a JSON field is missing. This requires robust structural validation and regeneration mechanisms to ensure executable outputs, revealing a practical challenge often masked in free-form text generation.
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