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Adds two diversity metrics:

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start_layout_spread distance between two episodes' starting scenes [mm]: each object's horizontal start distance, combined as a root-sum-square
workspace_spread distance from where one episode's hands pass to where the other's went [mm], averaged both ways and over hands
  • Both average over pairs of episodes, for the workspace at most 2,000 drawn with a fixed seed, so they apply from two episodes on and do not grow with the dataset. The source column holds the same average over the seeds. They compute on existing datasets; generation is unchanged.
  • An object that never moves adds nothing to the start layout, so pinning an object can only lower it.
  • Hand paths are sampled every 2.5 mm between recorded steps and keep one point per 5 mm cell, so retracing a path adds nothing. A hand that moves more than 8 cm in one recorded step makes the workspace not applicable. On the test datasets and generated runs, halving the recording rate moved the workspace by under 1%, except for three GR1 datasets it made not applicable. The metrics page documents when two values compare.

On a 20-demo Franka MimicGen run, two demos start 217 mm apart and their hands pass 46.9 mm apart, against 222 mm and 44.7 mm for two seeds. The GR1 and G1 runs read 10.9 and 0 mm at the start and 24.1 and 13.6 mm in the workspace.

The approach and behavior metrics, exact duplicates and the start-position bias diagnostic are no longer part of this PR.

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  • New Features
    • Added diversity metrics that compare object starting layouts and end-effector workspaces across episodes. Results include per-entity starting-layout distances and workspace path distances when sufficient episode and pose data is available.
    • Metrics use deterministic sampling, including limits on the number of episodes and workspace comparisons. Results may be unavailable when there are too few valid episodes, required pose data is missing, or hand movement exceeds the supported threshold.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the metrics reference with definitions, availability limits, sampling details, and a refreshed report example.

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The package adds start_layout_spread and workspace_spread. Both use deterministic episode sampling. Tests and reference documentation cover their calculations and conditions for unavailable results.

Changes: Diversity Metrics

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Sample episodes and measure start-layout spread
autodata_metrics/diversity.py, autodata_tests/metrics/test_diversity.py
The metric calculates pairwise horizontal distances between sampled episodes’ start layouts. Layouts use rigid-object and articulation root poses or deformable-object node centroids. Tests cover calculated values, unavailable cases, and deterministic sampling.
Measure hand-workspace spread
autodata_metrics/diversity.py, autodata_tests/metrics/test_diversity.py
The metric compares gridded end-effector paths using symmetric nearest-point distances. Tests cover missing poses, movement limits, retraced paths, and calculated distances.
Register and document the metrics
autodata_metrics/__init__.py, autodata_tests/utils/utils.py, docs/pages/references/metrics.rst
The package imports the diversity module. Metric assertions expect both metrics when at least two episodes pass validation. The reference documentation describes the metrics, sampling, and applicability conditions.

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A dataset with an empty hand-pose track can report workspace spread as an error. The issue is limited to that input condition.

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autodata_metrics/report.py-143-144: 1

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Keep the traceback when a check raises.

The handler turns the exception into "Type: message" and discards the traceback. The failure appears in the report, so it is not silent. A bug in check code, as opposed to damaged data, then shows only a one-line reason and is hard to debug.

Log the traceback once per failing check and episode. Keep the report reason as it is.

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                 except Exception as exc:  # A broken check fails its episodes visibly instead of sinking the report.
+                    logger.warning("Check %s failed on episode %s", name, episode.name, exc_info=True)
                     reason = f"{type(exc).__name__}: {exc}"

Define logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) at module level.

Based on learnings: in batch processing, log each per-item exception with its full traceback and continue, so one failure does not abort the run.

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Log the swallowed exception in camera_paths.

The except Exception: continue block drops the error with no trace. The comment says the episode "fails its own checks". That holds only if an applicable check touches the unreadable episode, and the check might also run in a different way than camera_paths.

Record the error so a broken episode stays diagnosable. Ruff S112 and BLE001 flag this block too.

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-            except Exception:  # An episode that cannot be read fails its own checks.
-                continue
+            except Exception:  # An episode that cannot be read fails its own checks.
+                logger.warning("Episode %s cannot be listed for camera paths", episode.name, exc_info=True)
+                continue

Define logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) at module level.

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"""Diversity metrics: how differently the demonstrations use the workspace, approach what they lift, and start.

The four spread metrics each average, over pairs of episodes or lifts, how much the two differ; the two lift metrics

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This description is quite confusing with a lot of run on sentences and unexplained behaviour. Would recommend re-writing this agent generated section to be a bit more of an intuitive intro on what the metrics are doing.

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Fixed in 7dc7adb: the module docstring now introduces the two spreads in a few lines; the metrics reference defines them.

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requires=["obs/datagen_info/eef_pose", "obs/datagen_info/object_pose", "states/rigid_object"],
baseline=True,
)
def behavior_diversity(ev: Evidence) -> Value:

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Is this a good name for this particular metric? It seems to be measuring a hand's approach path to an object which is a lot more specific than what the generic "behavior_diversity" name would suggest.

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Removed in 7dc7adb, with the approach metrics; grasp-based behavior metrics will follow in a separate PR.

Comment thread autodata_metrics/diversity.py Outdated
def start_spread(ev: Evidence) -> Value:
"""Average distance between two episodes' object layouts in the horizontal plane.

A layout distance is the root-mean-square, over the objects that start in more than one place, of their xy start

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Recommend reword for readability

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Fixed in 7dc7adb: start_spread is now start_layout_spread, with a reworded docstring.

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if len(ev.episodes) < 2:
raise NotApplicable("needs two episodes")
starts = _start_positions(ev)
moving = [name for name, points in starts.items() if _moves(points)]

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This seems like it could be a flaw in metric consistency to me. If the spread is only measuring based off which objects have moved in a dataset, then the metric can become invalid to compare across datasets. For example, if dataset A has two objects, each with variations, while dataset B of the same env and items but now only one object has variations, then the start_spread score of dataset B could be greater (because the only object that is considered now has a larger variation magnitude) even though it's less diverse.

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Fixed in 7dc7adb: start_layout_spread combines every object's horizontal start distance as a root-sum-square, so an object that never moves adds nothing and pinning one can only lower the value.

Comment thread autodata_metrics/diversity.py Outdated
distance = 1000 * float(np.linalg.norm(paths[first] - paths[second], axis=1).mean())
objects[name] = {"lifts": len(paths), "path_distance_mm": distance}
if name in seeds:
nearest = _squared_distances(paths, seeds[name][1]).min(axis=1)

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Does this compute and then store every distance for all generated vs original dataset pairs? If so this could quickly grow in memory cost. Is there a more memory efficient way of doing this as it seems like we only need the closest distance and discard the rest?

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Removed in 7dc7adb.

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def generation_bias(ev: Evidence) -> Value:
"""Start-position cells whose success rate is significantly below the overall rate.

Each moving object's attempted starts are split into :data:`BIAS_BINS` cells per moving axis. Every cell with

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reword for readability

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generation_bias is no longer part of this PR as of 7dc7adb.

Comment thread autodata_metrics/diversity.py Outdated
points = {
hand: poses[:, :3, 3] + poses[:, :3, :3] @ offsets.get(hand, np.zeros(3)) for hand, poses in hands.items()
}
cells = np.floor(np.concatenate(list(points.values())) / WORKSPACE_VOXEL_M).astype(np.int64)

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Is this only counting a cell if a recorded value lies in the cell? This seems like it could give misleading metric results for two datasets that differ in recording frequency. For example, if two demos have the same trajectory and span the same start and end, but one is recorded with a different set of dt/decimation commands, then they would cover a different number of cells even though they have the exact same workspace coverage.

It could be a reasonable assumption to say that these metrics are only valid for comparison across identical sim dt/decimation/hz settings (same dt value is not enough here as we need the number of recordings to also be identical) but if so then that's something we should document explicitly and add something to actively prevent against comparisons where that's not the case.

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Fixed in 7dc7adb: workspace_spread replaces the voxel count. Each hand's path is sampled every 2.5 mm between recorded steps and keeps one point per 5 mm cell, so halving the recording rate moves real values by under 1%; a hand that moves more than 8 cm per recorded step makes the metric not applicable.


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Diversity metrics

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A general note relating to comments from the above code review: We should look at documenting the assumptions and conditions that make these metrics valid for comparison. It seems like there some cases where a comparison is not valid between datasets and there are different computational assumptions that can skew results.

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Fixed in 7dc7adb: the metrics reference now has a "Comparing datasets" section on when two values compare.

@bokalnv bokalnv changed the title Add the diversity metrics and the start-position bias diagnostic Add the diversity metrics Nov 5, 2026

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Minor · Return not applicable for an empty hand-pose track in _hand_paths. · diversity.py:165-173

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Return not applicable for an empty hand-pose track in _hand_paths.

A sampled episode with a zero-row obs/datagen_info/eef_pose/<hand> dataset passes the presence check. Its empty path reaches _mean_gap, where distances.min(axis=0) reduces over a zero-size axis and raises ValueError. The report then records workspace_spread as an error, not as not applicable. _starts already treats an empty track as absent, so the guard follows the module's existing pattern. With the guard, the metric reports not applicable for the dataset, as start_layout_spread does for a missing start.

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start_layout_spread averages, over pairs of episodes, the root-sum-square of each rigid, articulated and deformable
object's horizontal start distance, so an object that never moves adds nothing and pinning one can only lower it.
workspace_spread averages how far one episode's hands pass from where the other's went: each recorded end-effector
path is sampled every 2.5 mm between recorded steps and keeps one point per 5 mm cell, so retracing a path adds
nothing, and a hand that moves more than 8 cm in one recorded step makes it not applicable.

Both read at most 1,000 episodes in an order their actions set, with names ordering episodes whose actions repeat
exactly, and the workspace measures at most 2,000 pairs. An object or a hand missing from an episode is named. The
end-to-end metric checks expect both spreads once a run exports two episodes.
The metrics reference defines both spreads and says when two values compare: same task and objects, same hands
recorded in the same frames. It gives the measured effect of the end-effector frame, the first recorded step and
the recording rate on the test datasets and runs, and its console example is a real report that shows both.
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