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Current long chain-of-thought (long-CoT) models excel at mathematical reasoning but rely on slow and error-prone natural language traces. Tool-augmented agents address arithmetic via code execution, but often falter on complex logical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Weihua Du , Pranjal Aggarwal , Sean Welleck , Yiming Yang

One of the key tasks related to ensuring mobile app quality is the reporting, management, and resolution of bug reports. As such, researchers have committed considerable resources toward automating various tasks of the bug management…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Jack Johnson , Junayed Mahmud , Tyler Wendland , Kevin Moran , Julia Rubin , Mattia Fazzini

Mobile phone agents can assist people in automating daily tasks on their phones, which have emerged as a pivotal research spotlight. However, existing procedure-oriented agents struggle with cross-app instructions, due to the following…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yuxuan Liu , Hongda Sun , Wei Liu , Jian Luan , Bo Du , Rui Yan

One of the challenges of analyzing, testing and debugging Android apps is that the potential execution orders of callbacks are missing from the apps' source code. However, bugs, vulnerabilities and refactoring transformations have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Danilo Dominguez Perez , Wei Le

With the rapid development of mobile apps, the availability of a large number of mobile apps in application stores brings challenge to locate appropriate apps for users. Providing accurate mobile app recommendation for users becomes an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Tingting Liang , Lifang He , Chun-Ta Lu , Liang Chen , Philip S. Yu , Jian Wu

Android apps are event-driven, and their execution is often interrupted by external events. This interruption can cause data loss issues that annoy users. For instance, when the screen is rotated, the current app page will be destroyed and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Wunan Guo , Zhen Dong , Liwei Shen , Wei Tian , Ting Su , Xin Peng

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), mobile agents have emerged as promising tools for phone automation, simulating human interactions on screens to accomplish complex tasks. However, these agents often suffer from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shiquan Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Le Fang , Simon D'Alfonso , Hong Jia , Vassilis Kostakos

UI task automation enables efficient task execution by simulating human interactions with graphical user interfaces (GUIs), without modifying the existing application code. However, its broader adoption is constrained by the need for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Tian Huang , Chun Yu , Weinan Shi , Zijian Peng , David Yang , Weiqi Sun , Yuanchun Shi

Unlike the Web where each web page has a global URL to reach, a specific "content page" inside a mobile app cannot be opened unless the user explores the app with several operations from the landing page. Recently, deep links have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Yun Ma , Ziniu Hu , Dian Yang , Xuanzhe Liu

Automated GUI testing is widely used to help ensure the quality of mobile apps. However, many GUIs require appropriate text inputs to proceed to the next page which remains a prominent obstacle for testing coverage. Considering the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Zhe Liu , Chunyang Chen , Junjie Wang , Xing Che , Yuekai Huang , Jun Hu , Qing Wang

Performing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) directly on mobile devices is promising for data privacy and responsiveness but is hindered by the architectural constraints of mobile NPUs. Specifically, current hardware struggles with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Zhiyang Chen , Daliang Xu , Haiyang Shen , Chiheng Lou , Mengwei Xu , Shangguang Wang , Xin Jin , Yun Ma

Multi-shot video generation is crucial for long narrative storytelling, yet current bidirectional architectures suffer from limited interactivity and high latency. We propose ShotStream, a novel causal multi-shot architecture that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yawen Luo , Xiaoyu Shi , Junhao Zhuang , Yutian Chen , Quande Liu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Tianfan Xue

Storytelling algorithms aim to 'connect the dots' between disparate documents by linking starting and ending documents through a series of intermediate documents. Existing storytelling algorithms are based on notions of coherence and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Dipayan Maiti , Mohammad Raihanul Islam , Scotland Leman , Naren Ramakrishnan

A video storyboard is a roadmap for video creation which consists of shot-by-shot images to visualize key plots in a text synopsis. Creating video storyboards, however, remains challenging which not only requires cross-modal association…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xu Gu , Yuchong Sun , Feiyue Ni , Shizhe Chen , Xihua Wang , Ruihua Song , Boyuan Li , Xiang Cao

Smartphones are a crucial aspect of routine life in the modern world, and viewing information graphics such as charts becomes common practice for many unassuming tasks. However, for the vision impaired, accessing graphical material presents…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Ishan Amarkumar Joshi

With the overwhelming transition to smart phones, storing important information in the form of unstructured text has become habitual to users of mobile devices. From grocery lists to drafts of emails and important speeches, users store a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Manish Chugani , Shubham Vatsal , Gopi Ramena , Sukumar Moharana , Naresh Purre

Expecting the shipment of 1 billion Android devices in 2017, cyber criminals have naturally extended their vicious activities towards Google's mobile operating system. With an estimated number of 700 new Android applications released every…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Sebastian Neuner , Victor van der Veen , Martina Lindorfer , Markus Huber , Georg Merzdovnik , Martin Mulazzani , Edgar Weippl

We present Code Broker, a multi agent system built on Google s Agent Development Kit ADK that analyses Python source code from individual files, local directory trees, or remote GitHub repositories and generates structured, actionable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Samer Attrah

We introduce FRONTMATTER: a tool to automatically mine both user interface models and behavior of Android apps at a large scale with high precision. Given an app, FRONTMATTER statically extracts all declared screens, the user interface…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Konstantin Kuznetsov , Chen Fu , Song Gao , David N. Jansen , Lijun Zhang , Andreas Zeller

Inter-Component Communication (ICC) is a key mechanism in Android. It enables developers to compose rich functionalities and explore reuse within and across apps. Unfortunately, as reported by a large body of literature, ICC is rather…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Jordan Samhi , Alexandre Bartel , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Jacques Klein