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Addressing intricate real-world problems necessitates in-depth information seeking and multi-step reasoning. Recent progress in agentic systems, exemplified by Deep Research, underscores the potential for autonomous multi-step research. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jialong Wu , Baixuan Li , Runnan Fang , Wenbiao Yin , Liwen Zhang , Zhengwei Tao , Dingchu Zhang , Zekun Xi , Gang Fu , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

Scaling up high-quality trajectory data has long been a critical bottleneck for developing human-like computer use agents. We introduce PC Agent-E, an efficient agent training framework that significantly reduces reliance on large-scale…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yanheng He , Jiahe Jin , Pengfei Liu

Computer Use Agents (CUAs) can act through both atomic GUI actions, such as click and type, and high-level tool calls, such as API-based file operations, but this hybrid action space often leaves them uncertain about when to continue with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xuhao Hu , Xi Zhang , Haiyang Xu , Kyle Qiao , Jingyi Yang , Xuanjing Huang , Jing Shao , Ming Yan , Jieping Ye

Recent research in language-guided visual navigation has demonstrated a significant demand for the diversity of traversable environments and the quantity of supervision for training generalizable agents. To tackle the common data scarcity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Zun Wang , Jialu Li , Yicong Hong , Yi Wang , Qi Wu , Mohit Bansal , Stephen Gould , Hao Tan , Yu Qiao

We present WebGym, the largest-to-date open-source environment for training realistic visual web agents. Real websites are non-stationary and diverse, making artificial or small-scale task sets insufficient for robust policy learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hao Bai , Alexey Taymanov , Tong Zhang , Aviral Kumar , Spencer Whitehead

Although many AI applications of interest require specialized multi-modal models, relevant data to train such models is inherently scarce or inaccessible. Filling these gaps with human annotators is prohibitively expensive, error-prone, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tim R. Davidson , Benoit Seguin , Enrico Bacis , Cesar Ilharco , Hamza Harkous

One major barrier to advancing aerial autonomy has been collecting large-scale aerial datasets for training machine learning models. Due to costly and time-consuming real-world data collection through deploying drones, there has been an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Mehrnaz Sabet , Praveen Palanisamy , Sakshi Mishra

The rapid growth of dataset scales has been a key driver in advancing deep learning research. However, as dataset scale increases, the training process becomes increasingly inefficient due to the presence of low-value samples, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qing Zhou , Junyu Gao , Qi Wang

Computer use agents represent an emerging area in artificial intelligence, aiming to operate computers autonomously to fulfill user tasks, attracting significant attention from both industry and academia. However, the performance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yuhao Cheng , Liang Tang , Shuxian Li , Yukang Huo , Tiaonan Duan , Kaer Huang , Yanzhe Jing , Yiqiang Yan

While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating data science, existing agents often struggle with the complexity of real-world workflows that require exploring multiple sources and synthesizing open-ended insights. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jaehyun Nam , Jinsung Yoon , Jiefeng Chen , Raj Sinha , Jinwoo Shin , Tomas Pfister

Visual grounding is the task of localising image regions from natural language queries and is critical for reasoning capable Graphical User Interface agents. Many existing methods rely on massive, noisy synthetic datasets. This work…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Eda B. Özyiğit

Computer Use Agents (CUAs) operate interfaces by pointing, clicking, and typing -- mirroring interactions of sighted users (SUs) who can thus monitor CUAs and share control. CUAs do not reflect interactions by blind and low-vision users…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ananya Gubbi Mohanbabu , Rosiana Natalie , Brandon Kim , Anhong Guo , Amy Pavel

Real-world software engineering tasks require coding agents that can operate on massive repositories, sustain long-horizon sessions, and reliably coordinate complex toolchains at test time. Existing research-grade coding agents offer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Sherman Wong , Zhenting Qi , Zhaodong Wang , Nathan Hu , Samuel Lin , Jun Ge , Erwin Gao , Wenlin Chen , Yilun Du , Minlan Yu , Ying Zhang

Web-based 'deep research' agents aim to solve complex question - answering tasks through long-horizon interactions with online tools. These tasks remain challenging, as the underlying language models are often not optimized for long-horizon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shrey Pandit , Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Yifei Ming , Austin Xu , Jiayu Wang , Caiming Xiong , Shafiq Joty

Verifying the success of computer use agent (CUA) trajectories is a critical challenge: without reliable verification, neither evaluation nor training signal can be trusted. In this paper, we present lessons learned from building a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Corby Rosset , Pratyusha Sharma , Andrew Zhao , Miguel Gonzalez-Fernandez , Ahmed Awadallah

Simulated user agents are increasingly used in usability testing to support fast, iterative UX workflows, as they generate rich data such as action logs and think-aloud reasoning, but the unstructured nature of this output often obscures…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Steffen Holter , Eunyee Koh , Mustafa Doga Dogan , Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan

Achieving fully autonomous driving systems requires learning rational decisions in a wide span of scenarios, including safety-critical and out-of-distribution ones. However, such cases are underrepresented in real-world corpus collected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Haochen Tian , Tianyu Li , Haochen Liu , Jiazhi Yang , Yihang Qiu , Guang Li , Junli Wang , Yinfeng Gao , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Hangjun Ye , Tieniu Tan , Long Chen , Hongyang Li

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

Recursive query processing has experienced a recent resurgence, as a result of its use in many modern application domains, including data integration, graph analytics, security, program analysis, networking and decision making. Due to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Zhiwei Fan , Jianqiao Zhu , Zuyu Zhang , Aws Albarghouthi , Paraschos Koutris , Jignesh Patel

Static timing analysis (STA) is crucial for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) flows but remains a computational bottleneck. While existing GPU-based STA engines are faster than CPU, they suffer from inefficiencies, particularly intra-warp…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 En-Ming Huang , Shih-Hao Hung