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arXiv Robotics — research abstracts· Dmytro Kurdydyk, Aadi Palnitkar, Sebastian Scherer, Seungchan Kim·· 1 days agoSignalEditorial score75

SPARK: Self-Correcting Embodied Memory via Physical Re-Observation

SPARK: Self-Correcting Embodied Memory via Physical Re-Observation

Summary

This research presents SPARK, a corrective multi-episode framework for embodied retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that addresses persistent errors in semantic labels, object positions, and spatial relationships.

Editorial context

The paper introduces SPARK, a framework that corrects errors in embodied retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) memory through targeted re-observation and selective merging of knowledge base entries.

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  • EQA questions

    158

    Reported trials

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    viewpoint conditions, using perception-built KBs, a visibility-constrained oracle used only for evaluation, and a fixed set of 158 embodied question answering (EQA) questions scored before and after correction. A single corrective episode improves downstream EQA on every map under both conditions while storing 13-41% fewer objects than append-only updating, with gains up to 2.7x on one map-condition pair. Extending
    Open source S4
  • performance gain

    ≤2.7

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    viewpoint conditions, using perception-built KBs, a visibility-constrained oracle used only for evaluation, and a fixed set of 158 embodied question answering (EQA) questions scored before and after correction. A single corrective episode improves downstream EQA on every map under both conditions while storing 13-41% fewer objects than append-only updating, with gains up to 2.7x on one map-condition pair. Extending
    Open source S4
  • maps evaluated

    4

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    urate object positions, and inconsistent spatial relationships. To address this, we present SPARK, a corrective multi-episode framework for embodied RAG. After the first episode, a semantic critic flags regions of the KB, a targeted planner generates revisits, and a selective merge adds, removes, or replaces KB information based on the new observations. We evaluate SPARK on four outdoor AirSim maps under two degraded
    Open source S3
  • episodes

    4

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    correction through Episode 4 brings every map above the EQA performance of its undegraded reference. Ablations show that the critic's three signals each contribute to performance, that targeted revisits achieve a larger mean gain than untargeted ones under the same budget, and that selective merging achieves gains comparable to append-only updating with a smaller KB. Overall, SPARK demonstrates the value of correctin
    Open source S5
  • critic signals

    3

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    correction through Episode 4 brings every map above the EQA performance of its undegraded reference. Ablations show that the critic's three signals each contribute to performance, that targeted revisits achieve a larger mean gain than untargeted ones under the same budget, and that selective merging achieves gains comparable to append-only updating with a smaller KB. Overall, SPARK demonstrates the value of correctin
    Open source S5
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viewpoint conditions, using perception-built KBs, a visibility-constrained oracle used only for evaluation, and a fixed set of 158 embodied question answering (EQA) questions scored before and after correction. A single corrective episode improves downstream EQA on every map under both conditions while storing 13-41% fewer objects than append-only updating, with gains up to 2.7x on one map-condition pair. Extending

Open source S4

urate object positions, and inconsistent spatial relationships. To address this, we present SPARK, a corrective multi-episode framework for embodied RAG. After the first episode, a semantic critic flags regions of the KB, a targeted planner generates revisits, and a selective merge adds, removes, or replaces KB information based on the new observations. We evaluate SPARK on four outdoor AirSim maps under two degraded

Open source S3

correction through Episode 4 brings every map above the EQA performance of its undegraded reference. Ablations show that the critic's three signals each contribute to performance, that targeted revisits achieve a larger mean gain than untargeted ones under the same budget, and that selective merging achieves gains comparable to append-only updating with a smaller KB. Overall, SPARK demonstrates the value of correctin

Open source S5

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