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Chakra Champions, welcome to our AI Ashram on this Yoga Day! Today, we’re bending our minds around the latest innovations. In the race of LLMs, Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, following the industry’s focus on smaller and faster models. Moving into the next āsana, we introduce LLARVA, a cutting-edge AI system. This system uses vision-action instruction tuning to teach robots new skills across various environments, outperforming existing methods with just 2D image inputs.
?? LLARVA: Robo-School Revolution ??
Ever wished you could teach a robot new skills as easily as explaining a recipe to a friend? That's the goal of LLARVA, a clever new AI system cooked up by researchers at 美国加州大学伯克利分校 . It's like a universal translator for robot instructions, allowing it to understand tasks across all sorts of mechanical helpers and environments. At its heart, LLARVA uses a beefy language model with 7 billion parameters, paired with a sharp-eyed vision system that can make sense of what the robot sees.
?? Action Anticipation: Here's the secret sauce: LLARVA learns from a massive buffet of 8.5 million image and movement pairs, showing all kinds of robots doing all sorts of tasks. It uses a special recipe of instructions that includes the robot type, how it's controlled, what it needs to do, and what it can feel (like joint positions). The clever bit is that LLARVA doesn't just predict what the robot should do next — it also imagines a visual "trace" of where the robot's arm or tool will move, like a GPS route for robot parts. This helps it plan and tackle tricky, multi-step tasks.
?? Performance Powerhouse: So how well does it work? Pretty darn well, actually. In a virtual robot Olympics with 12 different tasks, LLARVA left other 2D-based systems in the dust, scoring an average of 43.3% success rate compared to their measly 1.3%. It even gave fancier 3D systems a run for their money. But the real test came when they unleashed LLARVA on a physical robot arm. It outperformed top-notch AI systems in tasks like picking up, stacking, and unstacking blocks. The kicker? LLARVA does all this with just 2D images - no fancy 3D data required. While we're getting ready for fully adaptable home robots, LLARVA is a big leap in the right direction, paving the way for mechanical helpers who can easily pick up new skills and adapt to our needs.
?? Researchers: Dantong Niu , Yuvan Sharma , Giscard Biamby , Jerome Quenum, Yutong Bai , Baifeng Shi , Trevor Darrell , and Roei Herzig
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? True or False: LLARVA's pre-training dataset consists of 8.5K image-visual trace pairs. Let me know in the comments. ??
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Time to conclude our tech meditation, Chakra Champions! We hope today's insights have aligned your mind with the latest and highest in AI. Have a wonderful weekend, and we'll reconnect on Monday!