mini-AlphaStar demystifies the complex AlphaStar architecture by offering an accessible, open-source PyTorch framework for StarCraft II AI development. It features spatial feature encoders for screen and minimap inputs, non-spatial feature processing, LSTM memory modules, and separate policy and value networks for action selection and state evaluation. Using imitation learning to bootstrap and reinforcement learning with self-play for fine-tuning, it supports environment wrappers compatible with StarCraft II via pysc2, logging through TensorBoard, and configurable hyperparameters. Researchers and students can generate datasets from human gameplay, train models on custom scenarios, evaluate agent performance, and visualize learning curves. The modular codebase enables easy experimentation with network variants, training schedules, and multi-agent setups. Designed for education and prototyping rather than production deployment.

LLaVA-Plus builds upon leading vision-language foundations to deliver an agent capable of interpreting and reasoning over multiple images simultaneously. It integrates assembly learning and vision-language planning to perform complex tasks such as visual question answering, step-by-step problem-solving, and multi-stage inference workflows. The framework offers a modular plugin architecture to connect with various LLM backends, enabling custom prompt strategies and dynamic chain-of-thought explanations. Users can deploy LLaVA-Plus locally or through the hosted web demo, uploading single or multiple images, issuing natural language queries, and receiving rich explanatory answers along with planning steps. Its extensible design supports rapid prototyping of multimodal applications, making it an ideal platform for research, education, and production-grade vision-language solutions.