NitroGen: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Gaming Agents research paper by NVIDIA, 2026
NVIDIA · Foundation models · Jan 4, 2026 · 29 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.
By Loïc Magne, Anas Awadalla, Guanzhi Wang and 11 more · arXiv 2601.02427 · PDF · Code
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About this paper
- Venue
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Citations
- 29, 1 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 46 · Hugging Face
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Citations rose from 26 to 29.
Influential citations fell from 2 to 1.
Citations rose from 22 to 26.
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A first count of 22 citations.
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