Can Large Language Model Agents Learn by Watching Tutorial Videos?
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabThe paper introduces Tutorial Agentic Learning (TAL), a nonparametric framework that lets frozen LLM agents learn from instructional videos without parameter updates. TAL consolidates videos into a structured tutorialbook memory through a two-stage adversarial process that generates hard, video-grounded questions to refine the memory. At inference, it retrieves via a Table-of-Contents tree rather than embedding similarity. The authors also introduce VidLearn, a multimodal QA benchmark built from 72 chess tutorial videos, where TAL outperforms baselines and improves as more videos are consumed.
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The paper introduces Tutorial Agentic Learning (TAL), a nonparametric framework that lets frozen LLM agents learn from instructional videos without parameter updates. TAL consolidates videos into a structured tutorialbook memory through a two-stage adversarial process that generates hard, video-grounded questions to refine the memory. At inference, it retrieves via a Table-of-Contents tree rather than embedding similarity. The authors also introduce VidLearn, a multimodal QA benchmark built from 72 chess tutorial videos, where TAL outperforms baselines and improves as more videos are consumed.
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- TAL builds a persistent, structured tutorialbook memory from tutorial videos without updating model parameters.
- On the VidLearn benchmark, TAL improves monotonically with more videos and gains up to 113% and 91% over vanilla MLLMs on training and test splits.
- In 69% of head-to-head chess games, TAL reached a stronger opening-phase position than its vanilla counterpart.
- The authors report that TAL generalizes to a second evaluation domain.
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If agents can learn from the large volume of online instructional video without costly retraining, continual learning from human teaching becomes more scalable. The results suggest a route to updating agent capabilities through memory rather than parameter updates.
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