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We develop a cost-efficient neurosymbolic agent to address challenging multi-turn image editing tasks such as ``Detect the bench in the image while recoloring it to pink. Also, remove the cat for a clearer view and recolor the wall to…

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High-speed trajectory planning through unknown environments requires algorithmic techniques that enable fast reaction times while maintaining safety as new information about the operating environment is obtained. The requirement of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Jesus Tordesillas , Brett T. Lopez , Jonathan P. How

Current AI agent frameworks commit early to a single interaction protocol, a fixed tool integration strategy, and static user models, limiting their deployment across diverse interaction paradigms. To address these constraints, we introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Alfred Shen , Aaron Shen

Negotiation requires dynamically balancing self-interest and cooperation within the flow of conversation to maximize one's own utility. Yet, existing agents struggle due to bounded rationality in human data, low adaptability to counterpart…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Deuksin Kwon , Jiwon Hae , Emma Clift , Daniel Shamsoddini , Jonathan Gratch , Gale M. Lucas

Advances in AI agent capabilities have outpaced users' ability to meaningfully oversee their execution. AI agents can perform sophisticated, multi-step knowledge work autonomously from start to finish, yet this process remains effectively…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Sadra Sabouri , Zeinabsadat Saghi , Run Huang , Sujay Maladi , Esmeralda Eufracio , Sumit Gulwani , Souti Chattopadhyay

Artificial Intelligence (AI) significantly influences many fields, largely thanks to the vast amounts of high-quality data for machine learning models. The emphasis is now on a data-centric AI strategy, prioritizing data development over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Xu Yang , Haotian Chen , Wenjun Feng , Haoxue Wang , Zeqi Ye , Xinjie Shen , Xiao Yang , Shizhao Sun , Weiqing Liu , Jiang Bian

The rapidly-changing deep learning landscape presents a unique opportunity for building inference accelerators optimized for specific datacenter-scale workloads. We propose Full-stack Accelerator Search Technique (FAST), a hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Dan Zhang , Safeen Huda , Ebrahim Songhori , Kartik Prabhu , Quoc Le , Anna Goldie , Azalia Mirhoseini

In the era of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the dramatic improvement in the spectra of exoplanetary atmospheres demands a corresponding leap forward in our ability to analyze them: atmospheric retrievals need to be performed on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Anna Lueber , Konstantin Karchev , Chloe Fisher , Matthias Heim , Roberto Trotta , Kevin Heng

One of the grand challenges of artificial general intelligence is developing agents capable of conducting scientific research and discovering new knowledge. While frontier models have already been used as aides to human scientists, e.g. for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chris Lu , Cong Lu , Robert Tjarko Lange , Jakob Foerster , Jeff Clune , David Ha

Historically, scientific discovery has been a lengthy and costly process, demanding substantial time and resources from initial conception to final results. To accelerate scientific discovery, reduce research costs, and improve research…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Samuel Schmidgall , Yusheng Su , Ze Wang , Ximeng Sun , Jialian Wu , Xiaodong Yu , Jiang Liu , Michael Moor , Zicheng Liu , Emad Barsoum

Despite long-standing efforts in accelerating scientific discovery with AI, building AI co-scientists remains challenging due to limited high-quality data for training and evaluation. To tackle this data scarcity issue, we present AutoSDT,…

Scientific progress in Earth science depends on integrating data across the planet's interconnected spheres. However, the accelerating volume and fragmentation of multi-sphere knowledge and data have surpassed human analytical capacity.…

We present AutoStan, a framework in which a command-line interface (CLI) coding agent autonomously builds and iteratively improves Bayesian models written in Stan. The agent operates in a loop, writing a Stan model file, executing MCMC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Oliver Dürr

Next-generation AI must manage vast personal data, diverse tools, and multi-step reasoning, yet most benchmarks remain context-free and single-turn. We present ASTRA-bench (Assistant Skills in Tool-use, Reasoning \& Action-planning), a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zidi Xiu , David Q. Sun , Kevin Cheng , Maitrik Patel , Josh Date , Yizhe Zhang , Jiarui Lu , Omar Attia , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Oncel Tuzel , Meng Cao , Samy Bengio

Text presented in augmented reality provides in-situ, real-time information for users. However, this content can be challenging to apprehend quickly when engaging in cognitively demanding AR tasks, especially when it is presented on a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Guande Wu , Jing Qian , Sonia Castelo , Shaoyu Chen , Joao Rulff , Claudio Silva

I/O performance is crucial to efficiency in data-intensive scientific computing; but tuning large-scale storage systems is complex, costly, and notoriously manpower-intensive, making it inaccessible for most domain scientists. To address…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chris Egersdoerfer , Philip Carns , Shane Snyder , Robert Ross , Dong Dai

The "fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm", a.k.a. FISTA, is one of the most well-known first-order optimisation scheme in the literature, as it achieves the worst-case $O(1/k^2)$ optimal convergence rate in terms of objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Jingwei Liang , Tao Luo , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

The increasing complexity and diversity of hardware accelerators in modern computing systems demand flexible, low-overhead program analysis tools. We present PASTA, a low-overhead and modular Program AnalysiS Tool Framework for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mao Lin , Hyeran Jeon , Keren Zhou

Artificial intelligence is reshaping scientific exploration, but most methods automate procedural tasks without engaging in scientific reasoning, limiting autonomy in discovery. We introduce Materials Agents for Simulation and Theory in…

The FEAST algorithm is a subspace iteration method that uses a spectral projector as a rational filter in order to efficiently solve interior eigenvalue problems in parallel. Although the solutions from the FEAST algorithm converge rapidly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Brendan Gavin , Eric Polizzi