arxivcs.RO2026-07-23
Beyond Episodic Evaluation: Memory Architectural Bottlenecks in Sequential Embodied Question Answering
Zikui Cai, Kaushal Janga, Tan Dat Dao, Seungjae Lee, Shivin Dass, Mingyo Seo, et al.
Embodied question answering (EQA) is traditionally evaluated under an episodic formulation, where agents solve each task independently and reset internal state between episodes. However, real-world robots operate continuously and must accumulate, retain, and selectively reuse inf…