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Computer-use agents hold the promise of assisting in a wide range of digital economic activities. However, current research has largely focused on short-horizon tasks over a limited set of software with limited economic value, such as basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Pranjal Aggarwal , Graham Neubig , Sean Welleck

This paper presents our ongoing work toward developing an enterprise-ready Computer Using Generalist Agent (CUGA) system. Our research highlights the evolutionary nature of building agentic systems suitable for enterprise environments. By…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Sami Marreed , Alon Oved , Avi Yaeli , Segev Shlomov , Ido Levy , Offer Akrabi , Aviad Sela , Asaf Adi , Nir Mashkif

Autonomous agents that navigate Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) to automate tasks like document editing and file management can greatly enhance computer workflows. While existing research focuses on online settings, desktop environments,…

Recent advances in embodied agents with multimodal perception and reasoning capabilities based on large vision-language models (LVLMs), excel in autonomously interacting either real or cyber worlds, helping people make intelligent decisions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jiaqi Zhang , Chen Gao , Liyuan Zhang , Yong Li , Hongzhi Yin

Browser agents enable autonomous web interaction but face critical reliability and security challenges in production. This paper presents findings from building and operating a production browser agent. The analysis examines where current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Aram Vardanyan

Autonomous graphical user interface (GUI) agents aim to facilitate task automation by interacting with the user interface without manual intervention. Recent studies have investigated eliciting the capabilities of large language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zhuosheng Zhang , Aston Zhang

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents, powered by Large Foundation Models, have emerged as a transformative approach to automating human-computer interaction. These agents autonomously interact with digital systems or software applications…

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents show great potential for enabling foundation models to complete real-world tasks, revolutionizing human-computer interaction and improving human productivity. In this report, we present OmegaUse, a…

A Large Language Model (LLM) powered GUI agent is a specialized autonomous system that performs tasks on the user's behalf according to high-level instructions. It does so by perceiving and interpreting the graphical user interfaces (GUIs)…

Background: Large-scale biological jobs on high-performance computing systems require manual intervention if one or more computing cores on which they execute fail. This places not only a cost on the maintenance of the job, but also a cost…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Blesson Varghese , Gerard McKee , Vassil Alexandrov

The dark patterns, deceptive interface designs manipulating user behaviors, have been extensively studied for their effects on human decision-making and autonomy. Yet, with the rising prominence of LLM-powered GUI agents that automate tasks…

Inspired by cellular growth and self-organization, Neural Cellular Automata (NCAs) have been capable of "growing" artificial cells into images, 3D structures, and even functional machines. NCAs are flexible and robust computational systems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Shyam Sudhakaran , Elias Najarro , Sebastian Risi

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled computer use agents (CUAs) that operate GUIs autonomously, showing great potential, yet progress is limited by the lack of large-scale, open-source computer use data and foundation models. In this…

Evaluating GUI agents presents a distinct challenge: trajectories are long, visually grounded, and open-ended, yet evaluation must be both accurate and interpretable. Existing approaches typically apply a single holistic judgment over the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yuwen Zhai , Runze Li , Liang Wang , Nian Shi , Liwu Xu , Wei Zhang , Ran Lin , Bo Xu , Benlei Cui

We introduce the Agent GPA (Goal-Plan-Action) framework, driven by the fundamental insight that critical agent failures emerge at the intersections of setting goals, devising plans, and executing actions. We operationalize the framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Allison Sihan Jia , Daniel Huang , Nikhil Vytla , Seung Won Wilson Yoo , Nirvika Choudhury , Shayak Sen , John C. Mitchell , Anupam Datta

We introduce UFO, an innovative UI-Focused agent to fulfill user requests tailored to applications on Windows OS, harnessing the capabilities of GPT-Vision. UFO employs a dual-agent framework to meticulously observe and analyze the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Chaoyun Zhang , Liqun Li , Shilin He , Xu Zhang , Bo Qiao , Si Qin , Minghua Ma , Yu Kang , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Zhang

Coding agents now run autonomously with shell, file, and network privileges. When a user issues a benign request, the agent sometimes does more than asked: it deletes unrelated files, wipes a stale credentials backup, or rewrites…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yubin Qu , Ying Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Gelei Deng , Yuekang Li , Leo Yu Zhang , Yi Liu

Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are rapidly extending large language models (LLMs) beyond text-based reasoning toward action execution in more complex environments, such as web browsers and graphical user interfaces (GUIs). However, existing…

With the rapid advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), an increasing number of studies have leveraged LLMs as the cognitive core of agents to address complex task decision-making challenges. Specially, recent research has demonstrated…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Di Zhao , Longhui Ma , Siwei Wang , Miao Wang , Zhao Lv

Agents are rapidly advancing in automating digital work, but enterprises face a harder challenge: moving beyond prototypes to deployed systems that deliver measurable business value. This path is complicated by fragmented frameworks, slow…