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Mini-BEHAVIOR-Gran: Revealing U-Shaped Effects of Instruction Granularity on Language-Guided Embodied Agents
April 18, 2026 Β· Grace Period Β· + Add venue
Authors
Sukai Huang, Chenyuan Zhang, Fucai Ke, Zhixi Cai, Gholamreza Haffari, Lizhen Qu, Hamid Rezatofighi
arXiv ID
2604.17019
Category
cs.AI: Artificial Intelligence
Citations
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Abstract
Instruction granularity is an important yet poorly controlled variable in language-guided embodied AI. Existing benchmarks typically pair each task with a single static instruction, making it difficult to study how agent behavior changes when the same task is described at different levels of detail. We introduce Mini-BEHAVIOR-Gran, a new benchmark for controlled studies of instruction granularity that extends Mini-BEHAVIOR with multiple instruction variants per task, ranging from high-level goal descriptions to step-by-step guidance. Using this benchmark, we compare four candidate metrics for cross-task granularity quantification: token count, entity count, action-verb count, and planning-width, and find that width correlates most consistently with agent performance. Using width to organize training and evaluation further reveals a non-monotonic U-shaped relationship between instruction granularity and performance, with peaks at both fine and coarse extremes. Further analysis suggests that the coarse-granularity performance rebound is associated with shallow grounding, where agents learn vision-dominant policies.
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