JARVIS-VLA: Post-Training Large-Scale Vision Language Models to Play Visual Games with Keyboards and Mouse (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Visual Language Action models have shown promise in decision-making tasks, but have been neglected in previous work . |
| Approach: | They propose a new paradigm for visual language action models that enhances the foundation model prior to action-specific tuning by first post-training it on a curated set of visual and linguistic tasks using self-supervised learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the best agent baseline on a diverse set of atomic tasks and surpasses imitation learning-based policies in Minecraft. |
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