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Graphical user interface (GUI) agents have advanced rapidly but still struggle with complex tasks involving novel UI elements, long-horizon actions, and personalized trajectories. In this work, we introduce Instruction Agent, a GUI agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yinheng Li , Hailey Hultquist , Justin Wagle , Kazuhito Koishida

Large language models are able to perform a task by conditioning on a few input-output demonstrations - a paradigm known as in-context learning. We show that language models can explicitly infer an underlying task from a few demonstrations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Or Honovich , Uri Shaham , Samuel R. Bowman , Omer Levy

Building embodied AI systems that can follow arbitrary language instructions in any 3D environment is a key challenge for creating general AI. Accomplishing this goal requires learning to ground language in perception and embodied actions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 SIMA Team , Maria Abi Raad , Arun Ahuja , Catarina Barros , Frederic Besse , Andrew Bolt , Adrian Bolton , Bethanie Brownfield , Gavin Buttimore , Max Cant , Sarah Chakera , Stephanie C. Y. Chan , Jeff Clune , Adrian Collister , Vikki Copeman , Alex Cullum , Ishita Dasgupta , Dario de Cesare , Julia Di Trapani , Yani Donchev , Emma Dunleavy , Martin Engelcke , Ryan Faulkner , Frankie Garcia , Charles Gbadamosi , Zhitao Gong , Lucy Gonzales , Kshitij Gupta , Karol Gregor , Arne Olav Hallingstad , Tim Harley , Sam Haves , Felix Hill , Ed Hirst , Drew A. Hudson , Jony Hudson , Steph Hughes-Fitt , Danilo J. Rezende , Mimi Jasarevic , Laura Kampis , Rosemary Ke , Thomas Keck , Junkyung Kim , Oscar Knagg , Kavya Kopparapu , Rory Lawton , Andrew Lampinen , Shane Legg , Alexander Lerchner , Marjorie Limont , Yulan Liu , Maria Loks-Thompson , Joseph Marino , Kathryn Martin Cussons , Loic Matthey , Siobhan Mcloughlin , Piermaria Mendolicchio , Hamza Merzic , Anna Mitenkova , Alexandre Moufarek , Valeria Oliveira , Yanko Oliveira , Hannah Openshaw , Renke Pan , Aneesh Pappu , Alex Platonov , Ollie Purkiss , David Reichert , John Reid , Pierre Harvey Richemond , Tyson Roberts , Giles Ruscoe , Jaume Sanchez Elias , Tasha Sandars , Daniel P. Sawyer , Tim Scholtes , Guy Simmons , Daniel Slater , Hubert Soyer , Heiko Strathmann , Peter Stys , Allison C. Tam , Denis Teplyashin , Tayfun Terzi , Davide Vercelli , Bojan Vujatovic , Marcus Wainwright , Jane X. Wang , Zhengdong Wang , Daan Wierstra , Duncan Williams , Nathaniel Wong , Sarah York , Nick Young

In today's digital society, personalization has become a crucial aspect of software applications, significantly impacting user experience and engagement. A new wave of intelligent user interfaces, such as AI-based conversational agents, has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Aaron Conrardy , Alfredo Capozucca , Jordi Cabot

This article explores the evolving role of programming languages in the context of artificial intelligence. It highlights the need for programming languages to ensure human understanding while eliminating unnecessary implementation details…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Bartosz Sawicki , Michał Śmiałek , Bartłomiej Skowron

Bootstrapping from pre-trained language models has been proven to be an efficient approach for building vision-language models (VLM) for tasks such as image captioning or visual question answering. However, outputs of these models rarely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Manuel Brack , Patrick Schramowski , Björn Deiseroth , Kristian Kersting

Recently generating natural language explanations has shown very promising results in not only offering interpretable explanations but also providing additional information and supervision for prediction. However, existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Wangchunshu Zhou , Jinyi Hu , Hanlin Zhang , Xiaodan Liang , Maosong Sun , Chenyan Xiong , Jian Tang

Recent advances in large language models have demonstrated promising capabilities in following simple instructions through instruction tuning. However, real-world tasks often involve complex, multi-step instructions that remain challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Abdulfattah Safa , Tamta Kapanadze , Arda Uzunoğlu , Gözde Gül Şahin

We study the problem of jointly reasoning about language and vision through a navigation and spatial reasoning task. We introduce the Touchdown task and dataset, where an agent must first follow navigation instructions in a real-life visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Howard Chen , Alane Suhr , Dipendra Misra , Noah Snavely , Yoav Artzi

Automating GUI tasks remains challenging due to reliance on textual representations, platform-specific action spaces, and limited reasoning capabilities. We introduce Aguvis, a unified vision-based framework for autonomous GUI agents that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yiheng Xu , Zekun Wang , Junli Wang , Dunjie Lu , Tianbao Xie , Amrita Saha , Doyen Sahoo , Tao Yu , Caiming Xiong

Mobile agents that can leverage help from humans can potentially accomplish more complex tasks than they could entirely on their own. We develop "Help, Anna!" (HANNA), an interactive photo-realistic simulator in which an agent fulfills…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Khanh Nguyen , Hal Daumé

We propose an approach to manipulate existing interactive visualizations to answer users' natural language queries. We analyze the natural language tasks and propose a design space of a hierarchical task structure, which allows for a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Can Liu , Jiacheng Yu , Yuhan Guo , Jiayi Zhuang , Yuchu Luo , Xiaoru Yuan

Humans are able to identify a referred visual object in a complex scene via a few rounds of natural language communications. Success communication requires both parties to engage and learn to adapt for each other. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Yan Zhu , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris Metaxas

Enabling embodied agents to complete complex human instructions from natural language is crucial to autonomous systems in household services. Conventional methods can only accomplish human instructions in the known environment where all…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhenyu Wu , Ziwei Wang , Xiuwei Xu , Hang Yin , Yinan Liang , Angyuan Ma , Jiwen Lu , Haibin Yan

People are becoming increasingly comfortable using Digital Assistants (DAs) to interact with services or connected objects. However, for non-programming users, the available possibilities for customizing their DA are limited and do not…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Nicolas Lair , Clément Delgrange , David Mugisha , Jean-Michel Dussoux , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Peter Ford Dominey

Recent work has demonstrated the promise of combining local explanations with active learning for understanding and supervising black-box models. Here we show that, under specific conditions, these algorithms may misrepresent the quality of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Teodora Popordanoska , Mohit Kumar , Stefano Teso

This paper is a reflexion on the computability of natural language semantics. It does not contain a new model or new results in the formal semantics of natural language: it is rather a computational analysis of the logical models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Richard Moot , Christian Retoré

In this paper, we extended the method proposed in [21] to enable humans to interact naturally with autonomous agents through vocal and textual conversations. Our extended method exploits the inherent capabilities of pre-trained large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Linus Nwankwo , Elmar Rueckert

Robots are required to execute increasingly complex instructions in dynamic environments, which can lead to a disconnect between the user's intent and the robot's representation of the instructions. In this paper we present a natural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Adrian Boteanu , Jacob Arkin , Siddharth Patki , Thomas Howard , Hadas Kress-Gazit

Human-robot interaction often occurs in the form of instructions given from a human to a robot. For a robot to successfully follow instructions, a common representation of the world and objects in it should be shared between humans and the…