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GUI agents powered by LLMs show promise in interacting with diverse digital environments. Among these, video games offer a valuable testbed due to their varied interfaces, with adventure games posing additional challenges through complex,…

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Existing evaluations of agents with memory typically assess memorization and action in isolation. One class of benchmarks evaluates memorization by testing recall of past conversations or text but fails to capture how memory is used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zexue He , Yu Wang , Churan Zhi , Yuanzhe Hu , Tzu-Ping Chen , Lang Yin , Ze Chen , Tong Arthur Wu , Siru Ouyang , Zihan Wang , Jiaxin Pei , Julian McAuley , Yejin Choi , Alex Pentland

Existing reasoning evaluation paradigms suffer from different limitations: fixed benchmarks are increasingly saturated and vulnerable to contamination, while preference-based evaluations rely on subjective judgments. We argue that a core…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Baoqing Yue , Zihan Zhu , Yutong Han , Brian Fan , Qian Sun , Jichen Feng , Hufei Yang , Yifan Zhang , Mengdi Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly in multimodal perception and language understanding, yet it remains unclear whether they can reliably ground language into spatially coherent, plausibly executable actions in 3D digital…

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Innovations across science and industry are evaluated using randomized trials (a.k.a. A/B tests). While simple and robust, such static designs are inefficient or infeasible for testing many hypotheses. Adaptive designs can greatly improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jimmy Wang , Ethan Che , Daniel R. Jiang , Hongseok Namkoong

A common operation performed in Virtual Reality (VR) environments is locomotion. Although real walking can represent a natural and intuitive way to manage displacements in such environments, its use is generally limited by the size of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Alberto Cannavò , Davide Calandra , F. Gabriele Pratticò , Valentina Gatteschi , Fabrizio Lamberti

There has been a significant recent progress in the field of Embodied AI with researchers developing models and algorithms enabling embodied agents to navigate and interact within completely unseen environments. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Luca Weihs , Matt Deitke , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Roozbeh Mottaghi

As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly power autonomous agents in robotics and embodied AI, understanding their spatial reasoning capabilities becomes crucial for ensuring reliable real-world deployment. Despite advances in language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hafsteinn Einarsson

As language models master existing reasoning benchmarks, we need new challenges to evaluate their cognitive frontiers. Puzzle-solving events are rich repositories of challenging multimodal problems that test a wide range of advanced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Clinton J. Wang , Dean Lee , Cristina Menghini , Johannes Mols , Jack Doughty , Adam Khoja , Jayson Lynch , Sean Hendryx , Summer Yue , Dan Hendrycks

Embodied computer vision considers perception for robots in novel, unstructured environments. Of particular importance is the embodied visual exploration problem: how might a robot equipped with a camera scope out a new environment? Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Santhosh K. Ramakrishnan , Dinesh Jayaraman , Kristen Grauman

We train embodied agents to play Visual Hide and Seek where a prey must navigate in a simulated environment in order to avoid capture from a predator. We place a variety of obstacles in the environment for the prey to hide behind, and we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Boyuan Chen , Shuran Song , Hod Lipson , Carl Vondrick

Spatial reasoning in 3D space is central to human cognition and indispensable for embodied tasks such as navigation and manipulation. However, state-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs) struggle frequently with tasks as simple as…

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The rapid growth of AI agent ecosystems is transforming how complex tasks are delegated and executed, creating a new challenge of identifying suitable agents for a given task. Unlike traditional tools, agent capabilities are often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Bin Wu , Arastun Mammadli , Xiaoyu Zhang , Emine Yilmaz

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are known to struggle with spatial reasoning and visual alignment. To help overcome these limitations, we introduce iVISPAR, an interactive multimodal benchmark designed to evaluate the spatial reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Julius Mayer , Mohamad Ballout , Serwan Jassim , Farbod Nosrat Nezami , Elia Bruni

The problem of model selection with a limited number of experimental trials has received considerable attention in cognitive science, where the role of experiments is to discriminate between theories expressed as computational models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Alexander Aushev , Aini Putkonen , Gregoire Clarte , Suyog Chandramouli , Luigi Acerbi , Samuel Kaski , Andrew Howes

Inferential decision-making algorithms typically assume that an underlying probabilistic model of decision alternatives and outcomes may be learned a priori or online. Furthermore, when applied to robots in real-world settings they often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yucheng Chen , Pingping Zhu , Anthony Alers , Tobias Egner , Marc A. Sommer , Silvia Ferrari

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have led to remarkable performance across a wide range of language understanding and mathematical tasks. As a result, increasing attention has been given to assessing the true reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jonas Golde , Patrick Haller , Fabio Barth , Alan Akbik

The human intrinsic desire to pursue knowledge, also known as curiosity, is considered essential in the process of skill acquisition. With the aid of artificial curiosity, we could equip current techniques for control, such as Reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Pietro Mazzaglia , Ozan Catal , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt

We introduce DreamerV3-XP, an extension of DreamerV3 that improves exploration and learning efficiency. This includes (i) a prioritized replay buffer, scoring trajectories by return, reconstruction loss, and value error and (ii) an…

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With the growing demand for intelligent in-vehicle experiences, vehicle-based agents are evolving from simple assistants to long-term companions. This evolution requires agents to continuously model multi-user preferences and make reliable…

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