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DuoCook: An Overcooked-Inspired Benchmark for Visual Planning and Coordination

A new arXiv paper introduces DuoCook, a benchmark inspired by the video game Overcooked for testing vision-language agents. The task asks one model to control two players in a cooking scenario using top-down visual observations. The agent must track changing scene states, sequence recipe steps, and allocate shared resources under a time budget. The environments were built in Unreal Engine using coding agents.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-10-22T16:26:38+00:00 Detected 2026-10-23T17:21:27+00:00
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A new arXiv paper introduces DuoCook, a benchmark inspired by the video game Overcooked for testing vision-language agents. The task asks one model to control two players in a cooking scenario using top-down visual observations. The agent must track changing scene states, sequence recipe steps, and allocate shared resources under a time budget. The environments were built in Unreal Engine using coding agents.

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Coordinating two players in a cooking task requires a vision-language agent to track changing scene states, sequence recipe steps, and allocate shared resources under a time budget. We introduce an Overcooked-inspired benchmark for evaluating these capabilities in Unreal Engine environments constructed using...

Builders of vision-language agents and researchers measuring multi-step planning now have another test focused on coordinating two actors in a shared visual environment. Teams using coding agents to generate simulation environments may also find the construction approach relevant. The full paper will show how current models perform on the benchmark, which is the detail to check before drawing conclusions about model capability.

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