centric

Definition

A combining form meaning organized around: user-centric, data-centric, model-centric, agent-centric. It is a positioning claim — data-centric AI, for instance, argues that improving the dataset yields more than improving the architecture. Because centring one thing demotes another, the informative question is always what the phrase is implicitly arguing against, which is usually stated in the same abstract.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: Beyond Data Scaling — Why the Backbone, Not the Trajectory Count, Decides Your VLA (VLAct)Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models
• Paper Walkthrough: Qwen-UI-Agent — How Alibaba Built a GUI Agent That Works on Real Phones and PCsQwen-UI-Agent Technical Report: Toward Next-Generation Real-World Centric Foundation GUI Agents
• Paper Walkthrough: ComBodied Agents — Moving an Agent's Target from Software and Matter to the PersonComBodied Agents: a New Paradigm of Human-Centric Agentic AI