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Multimodal agents are making rapid progress on general computer-use tasks, yet existing benchmarks remain largely confined to browsers and basic desktop applications, falling short in professional software workflows that dominate real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jiaxin Ai , Yukang Feng , Fanrui Zhang , Jianwen Sun , Zizhen Li , Chuanhao Li , Yifan Chang , Wenxiao Wu , Ruoxi Wang , Mingliang Zhai , Kaipeng Zhang

Autonomous agents that execute human tasks by controlling computers can enhance human productivity and application accessibility. However, progress in this field will be driven by realistic and reproducible benchmarks. We present…

A key missing capacity of current language models (LMs) is grounding to real-world environments. Most existing work for grounded language understanding uses LMs to directly generate plans that can be executed in the environment to achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yu Gu , Xiang Deng , Yu Su

Humans can flexibly switch between different modes of thinking based on task complexity: from rapid intuitive judgments to in-depth analytical understanding. However, current Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding systems which locate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Fei Tang , Yongliang Shen , Hang Zhang , Siqi Chen , Guiyang Hou , Wenqi Zhang , Wenqiao Zhang , Kaitao Song , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

Repurposing large vision-language models (LVLMs) as computer use agents (CUAs) has led to substantial breakthroughs, primarily driven by human-labeled data. However, these models often struggle with novel and specialized software,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Zeyi Sun , Ziyu Liu , Yuhang Zang , Yuhang Cao , Xiaoyi Dong , Tong Wu , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

For decades, human-computer interaction has fundamentally been manual. Even today, almost all productive work done on the computer necessitates human input at every step. Autonomous virtual agents represent an exciting step in automating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Raghav Kapoor , Yash Parag Butala , Melisa Russak , Jing Yu Koh , Kiran Kamble , Waseem Alshikh , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Building embodied AI systems that can follow arbitrary language instructions in any 3D environment is a key challenge for creating general AI. Accomplishing this goal requires learning to ground language in perception and embodied actions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 SIMA Team , Maria Abi Raad , Arun Ahuja , Catarina Barros , Frederic Besse , Andrew Bolt , Adrian Bolton , Bethanie Brownfield , Gavin Buttimore , Max Cant , Sarah Chakera , Stephanie C. Y. Chan , Jeff Clune , Adrian Collister , Vikki Copeman , Alex Cullum , Ishita Dasgupta , Dario de Cesare , Julia Di Trapani , Yani Donchev , Emma Dunleavy , Martin Engelcke , Ryan Faulkner , Frankie Garcia , Charles Gbadamosi , Zhitao Gong , Lucy Gonzales , Kshitij Gupta , Karol Gregor , Arne Olav Hallingstad , Tim Harley , Sam Haves , Felix Hill , Ed Hirst , Drew A. Hudson , Jony Hudson , Steph Hughes-Fitt , Danilo J. Rezende , Mimi Jasarevic , Laura Kampis , Rosemary Ke , Thomas Keck , Junkyung Kim , Oscar Knagg , Kavya Kopparapu , Rory Lawton , Andrew Lampinen , Shane Legg , Alexander Lerchner , Marjorie Limont , Yulan Liu , Maria Loks-Thompson , Joseph Marino , Kathryn Martin Cussons , Loic Matthey , Siobhan Mcloughlin , Piermaria Mendolicchio , Hamza Merzic , Anna Mitenkova , Alexandre Moufarek , Valeria Oliveira , Yanko Oliveira , Hannah Openshaw , Renke Pan , Aneesh Pappu , Alex Platonov , Ollie Purkiss , David Reichert , John Reid , Pierre Harvey Richemond , Tyson Roberts , Giles Ruscoe , Jaume Sanchez Elias , Tasha Sandars , Daniel P. Sawyer , Tim Scholtes , Guy Simmons , Daniel Slater , Hubert Soyer , Heiko Strathmann , Peter Stys , Allison C. Tam , Denis Teplyashin , Tayfun Terzi , Davide Vercelli , Bojan Vujatovic , Marcus Wainwright , Jane X. Wang , Zhengdong Wang , Daan Wierstra , Duncan Williams , Nathaniel Wong , Sarah York , Nick Young

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents have the potential to assist users in interacting with complex software (e.g., PowerPoint, Photoshop). While prior research has primarily focused on automating user actions through clicks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Saelyne Yang , Jaesang Yu , Yi-Hao Peng , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Jae Won Cho , Yale Song , Juho Kim

We introduce RegionFocus, a visual test-time scaling approach for Vision Language Model Agents. Understanding webpages is challenging due to the visual complexity of GUI images and the large number of interface elements, making accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tiange Luo , Lajanugen Logeswaran , Justin Johnson , Honglak Lee

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated the ability to learn and leverage Internet-scale knowledge through pre-training with autoregressive models. Unfortunately, applying such models to settings with embodied…

Computer-use agents (CUAs) have recently made substantial progress, but deploying a separate large expert for each software domain remains expensive. Small open computer-use agents are more practical specialization targets, but they remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Suji Kim , Kangsan Kim , Sung Ju Hwang

Long-horizon, repetitive workflows are common in professional settings, such as processing expense reports from receipts and entering student grades from exam papers. These tasks are often tedious for humans since they can extend to extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jing Wu , Daphne Barretto , Yiye Chen , Nicholas Gydé , Yanan Jian , Yuhang He , Vibhav Vineet

Existing visual grounding benchmarks primarily evaluate alignment between image regions and literal referring expressions, where models can often succeed by matching a prominent named category. We explore a complementary and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ruozhen He , Nisarg A. Shah , Qihua Dong , Zilin Xiao , Jaywon Koo , Vicente Ordonez

Patient safety training is essential for preparing healthcare professionals to identify, investigate, and prevent adverse events. However, conventional simulation-based approaches often require substantial faculty time, physical resources,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yuqi Hu , Qiwen Xiong , Zhenzhen Qin , Brandon Watanabe , Yujing Wang , Mirjana Prpa , Ilmi Yoon

Large vision language models (VLMs) increasingly claim reasoning skills, yet current benchmarks evaluate them in single-turn or question answering settings. However, grounding is an interactive process in which people gradually develop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Saki Imai , Mert İnan , Anthony Sicilia , Malihe Alikhani

Building Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents is a promising research direction, which simulates human interaction with computers or mobile phones to perform diverse GUI tasks. However, a major challenge in developing generalized GUI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Bofei Zhang , Zirui Shang , Zhi Gao , Wang Zhang , Rui Xie , Xiaojian Ma , Tao Yuan , Xinxiao Wu , Song-Chun Zhu , Qing Li

Document Question Answering (DocQA) focuses on answering questions grounded in given documents, yet existing DocQA agents lack effective tool utilization and largely rely on closed-source models. In this work, we introduce DocDancer, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Qintong Zhang , Xinjie Lv , Jialong Wu , Baixuan Li , Zhengwei Tao , Guochen Yan , Huanyao Zhang , Bin Wang , Jiahao Xu , Haitao Mi , Wentao Zhang

General web-based agents are increasingly essential for interacting with complex web environments, yet their performance in real-world web applications remains poor, yielding extremely low accuracy even with state-of-the-art frontier…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Segev Shlomov , Ben wiesel , Aviad Sela , Ido Levy , Liane Galanti , Roy Abitbol

Despite the rapid progress of large vision-language models (LVLMs), fine-grained, state-conditioned GUI interaction remains challenging. Current evaluations offer limited coverage, imprecise target-state definitions, and an overreliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Fengxian Ji , Jingpu Yang , Zirui Song , Yuanxi Wang , Zhexuan Cui , Yuke Li , Qian Jiang , Xiuying Chen

Computer-using agents (CUAs) must plan task workflows across diverse and evolving applications, yet progress is limited by the lack of large-scale, high-quality training data. Existing datasets are narrow, static, and costly to annotate,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Chan Hee Song , Yiwen Song , Palash Goyal , Yu Su , Oriana Riva , Hamid Palangi , Tomas Pfister