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Autonomous Workflow for Multimodal Fine-Grained Training Assistants Towards Mixed Reality

Jiahuan Pei, Irene Viola, Haochen Huang, Junxiao Wang, Moonisa Ahsan, Fanghua Ye, Jiang Yiming, Yao Sai

Abstract

Autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents have emerged as promising protocols for automatically understanding the language-based environment, particularly with the exponential development of large language models (LLMs). However, a fine-grained, comprehensive understanding of multimodal environments remains under-explored. This work designs an autonomous workflow tailored for integrating AI agents seamlessly into extended reality (XR) applications for fine-grained training. We present a demonstration of a multimodal fine-grained training assistant for LEGO brick assembly in a pilot XR environment. Specifically, we design a cerebral language agent that integrates LLM with memory, planning, and interaction with XR tools and a vision-language agent, enabling agents to decide their actions based on past experiences. Furthermore, we introduce LEGO-MRTA, a multimodal fine-grained assembly dialogue dataset synthesized automatically in the workflow served by a commercial LLM. This dataset comprises multimodal instruction manuals, conversations, XR responses, and vision question answering. Last, we present several prevailing open-resource LLMs as benchmarks, assessing their performance with and without fine-tuning on the proposed dataset. We anticipate that the broader impact of this workflow will advance the development of smarter assistants for seamless user interaction in XR environments, fostering research in both AI and HCI communities.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{pei-etal-2024-autonomous,
    title = "Autonomous Workflow for Multimodal Fine-Grained Training Assistants Towards Mixed Reality",
    author = "Pei, Jiahuan  and
      Viola, Irene  and
      Huang, Haochen  and
      Wang, Junxiao  and
      Ahsan, Moonisa  and
      Ye, Fanghua  and
      Yiming, Jiang  and
      Sai, Yao  and
      Wang, Di  and
      Chen, Zhumin  and
      Ren, Pengjie  and
      Cesar, Pablo",
    editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei  and
      Martins, Andre  and
      Srikumar, Vivek",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024",
    month = aug,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.240/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.240",
    pages = "4051--4066"
}