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Autonomous graphical user interface (GUI) agents powered by multimodal large language models have shown great promise. However, a critical yet underexplored issue persists: over-execution, where the agent executes tasks in a fully…

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Intelligent assistants that follow commands or answer simple questions, such as Siri and Google search, are among the most economically important applications of AI. Future conversational AI assistants promise even greater capabilities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Katya Kudashkina , Patrick M. Pilarski , Richard S. Sutton

Testing conversational AI systems at scale across diverse domains necessitates realistic and diverse user interactions capturing a wide array of behavioral patterns. We present a novel multi-agent framework for realistic, explainable human…

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When deploying autonomous agents in the real world, we need effective ways of communicating objectives to them. Traditional skill learning has revolved around reinforcement and imitation learning, each with rigid constraints on the format…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Mark Woodward , Chelsea Finn , Karol Hausman

The concept of an AI assistant for task guidance is rapidly shifting from a science fiction staple to an impending reality. Such a system is inherently complex, requiring models for perceptual grounding, attention, and reasoning, an…

As knowledge graph has the potential to bridge the gap between commonsense knowledge and reasoning over actionable capabilities of mobile robotic platforms, incorporating knowledge graph into robotic system attracted increasing attention in…

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The iDian (previously named as the Operation Agent System) is a framework designed to enable computer users to operate software in natural language. Distinct from current speech-recognition systems, our solution supports format-free…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-10-18 Xin Rong

Software agents can be used to automate many of the tedious, time-consuming information processing tasks that humans currently have to complete manually. However, to do so, agent plans must be capable of representing the myriad of actions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-12 G. Barish , C. A. Knoblock

Simulating stylized human-scene interactions (HSI) in physical environments is a challenging yet fascinating task. Prior works emphasize long-term execution but fall short in achieving both diverse style and physical plausibility. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wenjia Wang , Liang Pan , Zhiyang Dou , Jidong Mei , Zhouyingcheng Liao , Yuke Lou , Yifan Wu , Lei Yang , Jingbo Wang , Taku Komura

Security products often create more problems than they solve, drowning users in alerts without providing the context required to remediate threats. This challenge is compounded by a lack of experienced personnel and security tools with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Bobby Filar , Richard J. Seymour , Matthew Park

Effective human-AI collaboration for physical task completion has significant potential in both everyday activities and professional domains. AI agents equipped with informative guidance can enhance human performance, but evaluating such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Filippos Bellos , Yayuan Li , Cary Shu , Ruey Day , Jeffrey M. Siskind , Jason J. Corso

With the rapid growth of intelligent services, communication targets are shifting from humans to artificial intelligent (AI) agents, which require new paradigms to enable real-time perception, decision-making, and collaboration. Semantic…

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Agents, as user-centric tools, are increasingly deployed for human task delegation, assisting with a broad spectrum of requests by generating thoughts, engaging with user proxies, and producing action plans. However, agents based on large…

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In an era of human-computer interaction with increasingly agentic AI systems capable of connecting with users conversationally, speech is an important modality for commanding agents. By recognizing and using speech emotions (i.e., how a…

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Numerical reasoning over text is a challenging task of Artificial Intelligence (AI), requiring reading comprehension and numerical reasoning abilities. Previous approaches use numerical reasoning programs to represent the reasoning process.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jiaxin Zhang , Yashar Moshfeghi

Agents capable of carrying out general tasks on a computer can improve efficiency and productivity by automating repetitive tasks and assisting in complex problem-solving. Ideally, such agents should be able to solve new computer tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Geunwoo Kim , Pierre Baldi , Stephen McAleer

Recent advances in conversational AI have been substantial, but developing real-time systems for perceptual task guidance remains challenging. These systems must provide interactive, proactive assistance based on streaming visual inputs,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yichi Zhang , Xin Luna Dong , Zhaojiang Lin , Andrea Madotto , Anuj Kumar , Babak Damavandi , Joyce Chai , Seungwhan Moon

Computational thinking, and by extension, computer programming, is notoriously challenging to learn. Conversational agents and generative artificial intelligence (genAI) have the potential to facilitate this learning process by offering…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jacob Penney , João Felipe Pimentel , Igor Steinmacher , Marco A. Gerosa

A frequent pattern in customer care conversations is the agents responding with appropriate webpage URLs that address users' needs. We study the task of predicting the documents that customer care agents can use to facilitate users' needs.…

The increasingly popular agentic AI paradigm promises to harness the power of multiple, general-purpose large language model (LLM) agents to collaboratively complete complex tasks. While many agentic AI systems reduce complexity through…

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