cs.CVJun 3, 2026

Plan, Watch, Recover: A Benchmark and Architectures for Proactive Procedural Assistance

Authors: Kaustav Kundu, Ritvik Shrivastava, Maxim Arap, Nanshu Wang, Xianhui Zhu, Quintin Fettes, Gautam Tiwari, Parth Suresh, +8 more

Organizations: 1Meta Reality Labs · 2Meta Superintelligence Labs

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Abstract

We envision a proactive multi-modal assistant system which gives users real-time step-by-step guidance on a procedural task, autonomously deciding \textit{when} to interrupt, and \textit{how} to coach. However, progress is limited by the absence of large-scale, cross-domain benchmarks that reflect realistic conditions, particularly the common case in which users deviate from the expected step sequence. We address this gap with four contributions: \textbf{(1)}we release \textbf{EgoProactive}, a large-scale wearable-egocentric dataset for proactive procedural assistance with explicit Out-of-Plan (OOP) annotations and recovery steps; \textbf{(2)}we augment five established benchmarks (Ego4D, EPIC-KITCHENS, EgoExo4D, HoloAssist, HowTo100M) into \textbf{Pro\textsuperscript{2}Bench} under a unified proactive-guidance schema; \textbf{(3)}we propose a \textbf{decoupled planner--interaction architecture} specialized for procedural state, visual cues, and recovery injection; \textbf{(4)}we introduce a post-training recipe that transfers across model families, validated by cross-backbone replication on Llama4 and Qwen-3.6-VL. In extensive experiments, our trained Llama-4 system substantially improves objective intervention quality over strong proprietary baselines (Claude Opus4.6, Gemini3.1Pro, GPT5.2) and open-weight baselines (Qwen3VL~235B) baselines across all six datasets. Oracle-plan experiments further show that, when plan quality is controlled, the trained duplex model produces high-quality guidance and large gains on Out-of-Plan recovery.

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