arXiv AI

EchoPath: Execution-Level Replayable Memory for GUI Agents

EchoPath is a model‑agnostic framework that transforms validated GUI interaction trajectories into standardized, parameter‑controlled memories, enabling agents to replay specific GUI actions deterministically. Each memory records task intent, preconditions, input parameters, GUI evidence, validation provenance, and lifecycle state, and uses an image‑based target‑reaiming algorithm to adjust coordinates for the current screen before execution. Experiments on real computer‑use tasks show that EchoPath cuts median token cost by over 90 % and median execution time by about 60 %.

arXiv AI
Aug 18

AstronOS: A Unified Execution Model and Runtime for Long-Horizon Agentic Systems

arXiv:2608. 16381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems often organize execution and state around a single conversation, model invocation, or agent instance, even when real work spans many calls and stages.

By Zhenhang Nie (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Gui Zheng (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Xudong Sun (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Tailong Zhu (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China), Bin Zhang (iFLYTEK Co., Ltd., Hefei, China)
arXiv AI
Jun 24

GUI vs. CLI: Execution Bottlenecks in Screen-Only and Skill-Mediated Computer-Use Agents

arXiv:2606. 24551v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents can execute software tasks through either graphical interfaces or programmatic command interfaces, but existing evaluations confound interaction modality with differences in tasks, initial states, verifiers, and permitted actions.

By Xiao Zhou, Siyue Zhang, Yilun Zhao, Jinbiao Wei, Tingyu Song, Arman Cohan, Chen Zhao
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 3

Efficient GUI Agents: A Systems Survey of Observation, Memory, Action, and Runtime Optimization

The paper surveys efficient GUI agents, emphasizing that practical deployment requires more than task success—it must also minimize context, computation, action budget, and runtime overhead. It reviews key efficiency dimensions—observation, memory, action, and planner/system—and identifies recurring strategies such as selective reading, global-to-local visual allocation, recoverable memory, verification-aware control, and hybrid runtimes. The authors highlight open challenges, including accurate verifier cost accounting, benchmark comparability, and co-design of observation, memory, and execution layers under real latency and privacy constraints.

By Bizhe Bai, Jiakang Yuan, Hongming Wu, Xinyue Wang, Jie Ren, Siyao Chen, Yuchen Ya, Fan Bai, Pai Peng, Huafeng Qin, Tao Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 12

Grounding Agent Memory: Environment-Probing Curation for Enterprise Agents

The paper introduces environment‑probing curation, a deployment‑compatible method that equips asynchronous curator agents with read‑only world tools to verify, scope, and refresh candidate memories without retraining models. In a GitHub Copilot‑based harness, this approach improves pass rates on CLBench from 39% to 73%, boosts reward metrics, and reduces both query counts and task‑agent costs. Across six APEX management‑consulting tasks, the method consistently outperforms baselines, yielding higher rewards and fewer tool calls while maintaining a compact task‑time interface.

By Susheel Suresh, Hazel Mak, Sahil Bhatnagar, Chhaya Methani, Alejandro Gutierrez Munoz
arXiv AI
Sep 7

CUA-Universe: A Scalable and Dynamic Environment for Hybrid GUI+CLI Agents

CUA-Universe is a scalable environment-to-data pipeline that transforms real desktop software into hybrid GUI+CLI environments, enabling agents to coordinate visual inspection with command-line operations. It includes App-Forge for reproducible VMs and CLI surfaces, Task-Weave for generating diverse hybrid tasks, and Path-Steer for efficient rollouts and trajectory harvesting. Training on this data improves agent success and efficiency across multiple benchmarks, demonstrating the value of hybrid interaction.

By Haoting Shi, Wenhao Wang, Weicheng Fang, Yaozhong Liang, Tian Jin, Pengxiang Zhao, Guangyi Liu, Siheng Chen, Yanfeng Wang
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 21

One Success Isn't Reliability: Thinkingbox, a Sandbox and Benchmark for Agents in Stateful Business Workflows

arXiv:2608. 19741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent agent benchmarks increasingly ground evaluation in executable environments, from code repair to web navigation, app APIs, and function calling.

By Zhuochun Li, Youngmin Ko, Ali Keramati, Nicola Ferri, Susana Palmaz Lopez Pelaez, Liang-Chun Tsai, Calvin Wang, Mirco Milletari, Tuhin Kundu, Vadim Smolyakov, Kjartan Olafsson, Tommy Guy
arXiv AI
Sep 7

From Interaction Traces to Persistent Skills: Online Evolution for Computer-Use Agents

The paper introduces an online skill‑evolution framework that transforms interaction traces and evaluator feedback into a persistent, versioned library of reusable procedures for computer‑use agents. By executing each iteration against a frozen library snapshot, the system updates skills without altering the underlying model parameters. Experiments across four OSWorld domains show that the evolving library consistently outperforms an empty‑library baseline, with gains ranging from 5.7 to 18.6 percentage points, while also revealing domain‑specific temporal stability and challenges in skill retrieval and revision.

By Longtao Hu, Xiao Liang, Linchao Zhu