Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models for Interactive Robot Programming

Alt, Benjamin, Keßner, Urs, Taranovic, Aleksandar, Katic, Darko, Hermann, Andreas, Jäkel, Rainer, Neumann, Gerhard

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

Industrial robots are applied in a widening range of industries, but robot programming mostly remains a task limited to programming experts. We propose a natural language-based assistant for programming of advanced, industrial robotic applications and investigate strategies for domain-specific fine-tuning of foundation models with limited data and compute.