Unified Interaction Foundational Model (UIFM) for Predicting Complex User and System Behavior

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Main Authors: Ethiraj, Vignesh, Talluri, Subhash
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author Ethiraj, Vignesh
Talluri, Subhash
author_facet Ethiraj, Vignesh
Talluri, Subhash
contents A central goal of artificial intelligence is to build systems that can understand and predict complex, evolving sequences of events. However, current foundation models, designed for natural language, fail to grasp the holistic nature of structured interactions found in domains like telecommunications, e-commerce and finance. By serializing events into text, they disassemble them into semantically fragmented parts, losing critical context. In this work, we introduce the Unified Interaction Foundation Model (UIFM), a foundation model engineered for genuine behavioral understanding. At its core is the principle of composite tokenization, where each multi-attribute event is treated as a single, semantically coherent unit. This allows UIFM to learn the underlying "grammar" of user behavior, perceiving entire interactions rather than a disconnected stream of data points. We demonstrate that this architecture is not just more accurate, but represents a fundamental step towards creating more adaptable and intelligent predictive systems.
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spellingShingle Unified Interaction Foundational Model (UIFM) for Predicting Complex User and System Behavior
Ethiraj, Vignesh
Talluri, Subhash
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
68T07, 62M20
I.2.6; H.2.8; H.3.3
A central goal of artificial intelligence is to build systems that can understand and predict complex, evolving sequences of events. However, current foundation models, designed for natural language, fail to grasp the holistic nature of structured interactions found in domains like telecommunications, e-commerce and finance. By serializing events into text, they disassemble them into semantically fragmented parts, losing critical context. In this work, we introduce the Unified Interaction Foundation Model (UIFM), a foundation model engineered for genuine behavioral understanding. At its core is the principle of composite tokenization, where each multi-attribute event is treated as a single, semantically coherent unit. This allows UIFM to learn the underlying "grammar" of user behavior, perceiving entire interactions rather than a disconnected stream of data points. We demonstrate that this architecture is not just more accurate, but represents a fundamental step towards creating more adaptable and intelligent predictive systems.
title Unified Interaction Foundational Model (UIFM) for Predicting Complex User and System Behavior
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
68T07, 62M20
I.2.6; H.2.8; H.3.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06025