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NitroGen: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Gaming Agents research paper by NVIDIA, 2026

NVIDIA · Jan 4, 2026 · Foundation models · 22 citations · 46 upvotes · unverified

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NitroGen is a vision-action foundation model trained on extensive gameplay data that demonstrates strong cross-game generalization and effective transfer learning capabilities.

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About this paper
Authors
Loïc Magne, Anas Awadalla, Guanzhi Wang and 11 more
arXiv
2601.02427 · PDF
Venue
arXiv.org
Citations
22, 2 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
46 · Hugging Face
Code
github.com/MineDojo/NitroGen
Lab
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