foundation

appears in 4 paper titles

Definition

Almost always part of "foundation model": a large model pre-trained broadly and then adapted to many downstream tasks. The term, introduced by researchers at Stanford, names a shift in practice — build one general model and specialise it, rather than train a separate model per task. It stresses the model's role as shared infrastructure, and the fact that its flaws propagate to everything built on it.

Explainers using this term

Paper walkthrough: Qwen-Drive-1.0 — bolting 3D perception and planning onto a VLM without touching its architectureQwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving
Paper Walkthrough: GigaBrain-0.7 — 37,000 Hours of Embodied Experience and a Three-System Robot BrainGigaBrain-0.7: Scaling Embodied Foundation Models to Emergent Capabilities with a Three-System Architecture
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