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An Interactive Agent Foundation Model (arxiv.org)
2 points by gerlv on Feb 13, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A single model is trained at once on many tasks across robotics, games, and healthcare, learning from images, text, and past actions to decide what to do next. Unlike the usual one-model-per-task setup, it produced meaningful, fitting outputs in all three areas.

Abstract

The development of artificial intelligence systems is transitioning from creating static, task-specific models to dynamic, agent-based systems capable of performing well in a wide range of applications. We propose an Interactive Agent Foundation Model that uses a novel multi-task agent training paradigm for training AI agents across a wide range of domains, datasets, and tasks. Our training paradigm unifies diverse pre-training strategies, including visual masked auto-encoders, language modeling, and next-action prediction, enabling a versatile and adaptable AI framework. We demonstrate the performance of our framework across three separate domains -- Robotics, Gaming AI, and Healthcare. Our model demonstrates its ability to generate meaningful and contextually relevant outputs in each area. The strength of our approach lies in its generality, leveraging a variety of data sources such as robotics sequences, gameplay data, large-scale video datasets, and textual information for effective multimodal and multi-task learning. Our approach provides a promising avenue for developing generalist, action-taking, multimodal systems.

Zane Durante, Bidipta Sarkar, Ran Gong, Rohan Taori, Yusuke Noda, Paul Tang, Ehsan Adeli, Shrinidhi Kowshika Lakshmikanth, Kevin Schulman, Arnold Milstein, Demetri Terzopoulos, Ade Famoti, et al.
arXiv:2402.05929 · cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.RO · submitted Feb 8, 2024 · updated Jun 17, 2024
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