# Improving agent performance in fluid environments by perceptual pretraining

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03230 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.03230/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 5 Sep 2024.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [DaMo: Data Mixing Optimizer in Fine-tuning Multimodal LLMs for Mobile Phone Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.19336/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we construct a pretraining framework for fluid environment perception, which includes an information compression model and the corresponding pretraining method. We test this framework in a two-cylinder problem through numerical simulation. The results show that after unsupervised pretraining with this framework, the intelligent agent can acquire key features of surrounding fluid environment, thereby adapting more quickly and effectively to subsequent multi-scenario tasks. In our research, these tasks include perceiving the position of the upstream obstacle and actively avoiding shedding vortices in the flow field to achieve drag reduction. Better performance of the pretrained agent is discussed in the sensitivity analysis.