James Gong

Project

robostats

An open-source statistics layer for robot policy evaluation: rigorous two-model and k-model comparisons with exact confidence intervals.

Role
Author, maintainer
Dates
Sep 2026 – present
Stack
Python, dependency-free core

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Stats figure (to be drafted)

Existing VLA evaluation harnesses report success rates with no statistics layer: no intervals, no paired tests, no accounting for shared episodes. robostats is an open-source Python library that adds one. It supports statistically rigorous dual-model and k-model policy comparison experiments, with exact confidence interval outputs under completely paired or partially overlapping evaluation scenarios.

It ships with benchmark adapters and a dependency-free episode recorder for LIBERO, RoboTwin, and RoboDojo outputs. The project grew out of evaluation work during my Noematrix internship, where the gap between a reported number and a defensible claim was hard to ignore.