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AI Agents are changing the way work gets done, both in consumer and enterprise domains. However, the design patterns and architectures to build highly capable agents or multi-agent systems are still developing, and the understanding of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Tamer Abuelsaad , Deepak Akkil , Prasenjit Dey , Ashish Jagmohan , Aditya Vempaty , Ravi Kokku

In visual semantic navigation, the robot navigates to a target object with egocentric visual observations and the class label of the target is given. It is a meaningful task inspiring a surge of relevant research. However, most of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xinzhu Liu , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

We present VISTA (VIsual Spec-To-App Benchmark), a benchmark for evaluating the end-to-end web-app generation capabilities of LLM-based agents. Unlike prior code generation benchmarks that focus on algorithmic tasks, VISTA targets realistic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 JunJia Guo , Yuhang Yao , Jiawei , Zhou , Jingdi Chen

Autonomy via agents using large language models (LLMs) for personalized, standardized tasks boosts human efficiency. Automating web tasks (like booking hotels within a budget) is increasingly sought after. Fulfilling practical needs, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ke Yang , Yao Liu , Sapana Chaudhary , Rasool Fakoor , Pratik Chaudhari , George Karypis , Huzefa Rangwala

The rapid development of autonomous web agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), while greatly elevating efficiency, exposes the frontier risk of taking unintended or harmful actions. This situation underscores an urgent need for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Boyuan Zheng , Zeyi Liao , Scott Salisbury , Zeyuan Liu , Michael Lin , Qinyuan Zheng , Zifan Wang , Xiang Deng , Dawn Song , Huan Sun , Yu Su

Web-based platforms are becoming a primary channel for psychological support, yet most LLM-driven chatbots remain opaque, single-stage, and weakly grounded in established therapeutic practice, limiting their usefulness for web applications…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Fei Wang , Jiangnan Yang , Junjie Chen , Yuxin Liu , Kun Li , Yanyan Wei , Dan Guo , Meng Wang

Visual perception connects high-level semantic understanding to pixel-level perception, but most existing settings assume that the decisive evidence for identifying a target is already in the image or frozen model knowledge. We study a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Bokang Yang , Xinyi Sun , Kaituo Feng , Xingping Dong , Dongming Wu , Xiangyu Yue

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

In this paper we introduce and discuss an approach for multi-agent-oriented visual programming. This aims at enabling individuals without programming experience but with knowledge in specific target domains to design and (re)configure…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Samuele Burattini , Alessandro Ricci , Simon Mayer , Danai Vachtsevanou , Jeremy Lemee , Andrei Ciortea , Angelo Croatti

The dense, temporal nature of video presents a profound challenge for automated analysis. Despite the use of powerful Vision-Language Models, prevailing methods for video understanding are limited by the inherent disconnect between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Keliang Li , Yansong Li , Hongze Shen , Mengdi Liu , Hong Chang , Shiguang Shan

Recent years, multimodal models have made remarkable strides and pave the way for intelligent browser use agents. However, when solving tasks on real world webpages in multi-turn, long-horizon trajectories, current agents still suffer from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kaiwen He , Zhiwei Wang , Chenyi Zhuang , Jinjie Gu

Dashboards are powerful visualization tools for data-driven decision-making, integrating multiple interactive views that allow users to explore, filter, and navigate data. Unlike static charts, dashboards support rich interactivity, which…

Driver visual attention prediction is a critical task in autonomous driving and human-computer interaction (HCI) research. Most prior studies focus on estimating attention allocation at a single moment in time, typically using static RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Kaiser Hamid , Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar , Nade Liang

The ability for AI agents to "think with images" requires a sophisticated blend of reasoning and perception. However, current open multimodal agents still largely fall short on the reasoning aspect crucial for real-world tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kaican Li , Lewei Yao , Jiannan Wu , Tiezheng Yu , Jierun Chen , Haoli Bai , Lu Hou , Lanqing Hong , Wei Zhang , Nevin L. Zhang

The evolution of autonomous agents is redefining information seeking, transitioning from passive retrieval to proactive, open-ended web research. However, a significant modality gap remains in processing the web's most dynamic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zhengyang Liang , Yan Shu , Xiangrui Liu , Minghao Qin , Kaixin Liang , Nicu Sebe , Zheng Liu , Lizi Liao

Recent work has begun to equip vision-language-action (VLA) policies with explicit intermediate reasoning. In embodied control, however, textual chain-of-thought is a poor fit: irrelevant or weakly textual information can interfere with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Mingjian Gao , Wenqiao Zhang , Yuqian Yuan , Yang Dai , Binhe Yu , Zheqi Lv , Haoyu Zheng , Jiaqi Zhu , Zhiqi Ge , Zixuan Wan , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Accurate visual understanding is imperative for advancing autonomous systems and intelligent robots. Despite the powerful capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) in processing complex visual scenes, precisely recognizing obscured or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Huaxiang Zhang , Yaojia Mu , Guo-Niu Zhu , Zhongxue Gan

Current AI agents create significant barriers for users by requiring extensive processing to understand web pages, making AI-assisted web interaction slow and expensive. This paper introduces webMCP (Web Machine Context & Procedure), a…

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While much work on web agents emphasizes the promise of autonomously performing tasks on behalf of users, in reality, agents often fall short on complex tasks in real-world contexts and modeling user preference. This presents an opportunity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Faria Huq , Zora Zhiruo Wang , Frank F. Xu , Tianyue Ou , Shuyan Zhou , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Graham Neubig

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