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There has been a recent surge of interest in developing generally-capable agents that can adapt to new tasks without additional training in the environment. Learning world models from reward-free exploration is a promising approach, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Marc Rigter , Minqi Jiang , Ingmar Posner

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a task where an agent navigates in an embodied indoor environment under human instructions. Previous works ignore the distribution of sample difficulty and we argue that this potentially degrade their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jiwen Zhang , Zhongyu Wei , Jianqing Fan , Jiajie Peng

A broad use case of large language models (LLMs) is in goal-directed decision-making tasks (or "agent" tasks), where an LLM needs to not just generate completions for a given prompt, but rather make intelligent decisions over a multi-turn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Yifei Zhou , Andrea Zanette , Jiayi Pan , Sergey Levine , Aviral Kumar

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs) and ever-evolving practical requirements, finding an efficient and effective alignment method has never been more critical. However, the tension between the complexity of current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jiaming Ji , Boyuan Chen , Hantao Lou , Donghai Hong , Borong Zhang , Xuehai Pan , Juntao Dai , Tianyi Qiu , Yaodong Yang

Vision-language model (VLM) based GUI agents show promise for automating complex desktop and mobile tasks, but face significant challenges in applying reinforcement learning (RL): (1) slow multi-turn interactions with GUI environments for…

Most existing large language models (LLMs) are expensive to adapt after deployment, especially when a task requires newly produced information or niche domain knowledge. Recent work has shown that, by manipulating and optimizing their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zeyu Huang , Adhiguna Kuncoro , Qixuan Feng , Jiajun Shen , Lucio Dery , Arthur Szlam , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Accurate uncertainty quantification is crucial for the safe deployment of machine learning models, and prior research has demonstrated improvements in the calibration of modern language models (LMs). We study in-context learning (ICL), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Hanlin Zhang , Yi-Fan Zhang , Yaodong Yu , Dhruv Madeka , Dean Foster , Eric Xing , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Sham Kakade

Deep research has emerged as an important task that aims to address hard queries through extensive open-web exploration. To tackle it, most prior work equips large language model (LLM)-based agents with opaque web search APIs, enabling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Chuan Meng , Litu Ou , Sean MacAvaney , Jeff Dalton

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous agents necessitates the management of extensive, dynamic contexts. Current benchmarks, however, remain largely static, relying on passive retrieval tasks that fail to simulate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Shicheng Fang , Yuxin Wang , Xiaoran Liu , Jiahao Lu , Chuanyuan Tan , Xinchi Chen , Yining Zheng , Xuanjing Huang , Xipeng Qiu

Large Language Models (LLM) based agents have shown promise in autonomously completing tasks across various domains, e.g., robotics, games, and web navigation. However, these agents typically require elaborate design and expert prompts to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Minghao Chen , Yihang Li , Yanting Yang , Shiyu Yu , Binbin Lin , Xiaofei He

Large Language Models (LLMs) equipped with web search capabilities have demonstrated impressive potential for deep research tasks. However, current approaches predominantly rely on either manually engineered prompts (prompt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yuxiang Zheng , Dayuan Fu , Xiangkun Hu , Xiaojie Cai , Lyumanshan Ye , Pengrui Lu , Pengfei Liu

Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems show promise for automating real-world tasks but struggle to transfer across domains due to their domain-specific nature. Current approaches face two critical shortcomings: they require…

LLM-brained web agents offer powerful capabilities for web automation but face a critical cost-performance trade-off. The challenge is amplified by web agents' inherently complex prompts that include goals, action histories, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tao Li , Jinlong Hu , Yang Wang , Junfeng Liu , Xuejun Liu

Multi-agent navigation in dynamic environments is of great industrial value when deploying a large scale fleet of robot to real-world applications. This paper proposes a decentralized partially observable multi-agent path planning with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Zuxin Liu , Baiming Chen , Hongyi Zhou , Guru Koushik , Martial Hebert , Ding Zhao

Multimodal LLM-powered agents have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in web navigation, enabling agents to complete complex browsing tasks across diverse domains. However, current agents struggle with repetitive errors and lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Genglin Liu , Shijie Geng , Sha Li , Hejie Cui , Sarah Zhang , Xin Liu , Tianyi Liu

With recent advancements in large language models, web agents have been greatly improved. However, dealing with complex and dynamic web environments requires more advanced planning and search abilities. Previous studies usually adopt a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zhisong Zhang , Tianqing Fang , Kaixin Ma , Wenhao Yu , Hongming Zhang , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

Advances in reinforcement learning research have demonstrated the ways in which different agent-based models can learn how to optimally perform a task within a given environment. Reinforcement leaning solves unsupervised problems where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Herkulaas Combrink , Vukosi Marivate , Benjamin Rosman

Injecting world knowledge into pretrained multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is essential for domain-specific applications. Task-specific fine-tuning achieves this by tailoring MLLMs to high-quality in-domain data but encounters…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xiao An , Jiaxing Sun , Ting Hu , Wei He

Large language models (LLMs) encode a large amount of world knowledge. However, as such knowledge is frozen at the time of model training, the models become static and limited by the training data at that time. In order to further improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Junyi Li , Tianyi Tang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jingyuan Wang , Jian-Yun Nie , Ji-Rong Wen

In-context learning (ICL) of large language models (LLMs) has attracted increasing attention in the community where LLMs make predictions only based on instructions augmented with a few examples. Existing example selection methods for ICL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Haowei Du , Dongyan Zhao