arXiv AI

OS-Wizard: Scaling Computer-Using Agents to Specialized Software via Knowledge-Guided Exploration

arXiv AI
Sep 23

ToolCUA: Towards Optimal GUI-Tool Path Orchestration for Computer Use Agents

ToolCUA is an end‑to‑end agent that learns to optimally orchestrate GUI actions and tool calls for Computer Use Agents. It introduces a staged training pipeline that first scales interleaved GUI‑tool trajectories from static GUI data, then bootstraps decision making with single‑turn reinforcement learning, and finally refines performance via online agentic RL guided by a tool‑efficient path reward. On the OSWorld‑MCP benchmark, ToolCUA achieves 46.85% accuracy, a 66% relative improvement over the baseline and a 3.9% gain over GUI‑only models, setting a new state of the art for comparable‑scale models.

By Xuhao Hu, Xi Zhang, Haiyang Xu, Kyle Qiao, Jingyi Yang, Xuanjing Huang, Jing Shao, Ming Yan, Jieping Ye
arXiv AI
Oct 19

Adaptation of Computer Use Agents to New Software with User Manuals

The paper introduces MAGE, a framework that uses user manuals to enhance computer use agents (CUAs) for new software. MAGE retrieves relevant manual content during execution, generates procedural guidance, and adapts the agent policy through interaction. In training, it converts manuals into executable task-plan pairs to guide rollouts, reducing the need for human‑annotated demonstrations and improving task success rates across six applications.

By Chulhoon Yoon, Kyungri Park, Jinyeong Yun, Daeyun Jeong, Sukmin Yun, Woohwan Jung
arXiv AI
Jul 13

Improving Language Agents through BREW: Bootstrapping expeRientially-learned Environmental knoWledge

arXiv:2511. 20297v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly capable of complex, multi-step tasks such as GUI automation, tool use, and data manipulation, yet they cannot learn from experience: each new session rediscovers solutions from scratch.

By Shashank Kirtania, Param Biyani, Priyanshu Gupta, Yasharth Bajpai, Roshni Iyer, Sumit Gulwani, Gustavo Soares
arXiv AI
Oct 16

OS-Helix: Unifying GUI Interaction and Code Execution in Native Computer-Using Agents

OS-Helix is an end‑to‑end multimodal agent that unifies graphical user interface (GUI) actions and code execution into a single action space. It is trained on high‑quality hybrid data generated through application‑artifact composition and a decoupled instruction/evaluator pipeline, and further refined with online reinforcement learning using a step‑balanced GSPO algorithm. The resulting models achieve significant performance gains over hybrid baselines on the OSWorld‑Verified benchmark and demonstrate cross‑platform transfer to WindowsAgentArena.

By Bowen Yang, Kaiming Jin, Zichen Ding, Zhenyu Wu, Zehao Li, Zhoumianze Liu, Kanzhi Cheng, Fangzhi Xu, Yanan Sun, Qiushi Sun, Yu Qiao
arXiv AI
Aug 18

UI-Mate: Advancing Open-Weight Foundation GUI Agents with In-Context Demonstrations

arXiv:2608. 15930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation GUI agents can automate complex digital tasks, but deployment is hindered by scarce and biased training data, ambiguous prompts, and unreliable execution.

By Zihan Ding, Longxu Dou, Qi Gao, Xiangwu Guo, Shengchao Hu, Zilong Huang, Zihang Jiang, Lei Ke, Mengcheng Lan, Weixian Lei, Hanxuan Li, Honglin Li, Xiyun Li, Zaitang Li, Leowei Liang, Xin Luo, Haozhe Ma, Jiayi Mao, Zhoujie Pan, Can Qin, Tianyuan Qu, Weiqi Wang, Wenkai Wang, Yonglin Wang, Yuxin Wang, Chenxu Wu, Yingchen Yu, Chenyu Zhang, Yuhao Zheng
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 16

OpenGCUA: Toward a Fully Open Stack for Generalist Computer Use

OpenGCUA is an open‑stack project that aims to make generalist computer‑use agents (GCUs) fully accessible to the research community. The first release focuses on code execution, allowing agents to use intermediate results and programming skills directly in computer interaction, and introduces harness‑to‑model decision transfer to shift observation and task‑state decisions from fixed rules to the model. On the OSWorld‑v2 benchmark, the full configuration boosts task scores for all eight evaluated models—including GPT‑6 Astra and Claude Opus 5—by an average of +19.6 partial‑score points and cuts steps per task by 53 % compared to batched GUI‑only execution, while also providing a real‑device harness and cross‑device SDK. whyItMatters":"By releasing the full stack, OpenGCUA enables systematic study and broader experimentation with generalist computer‑use agents, addressing the current limitation of closed implementations and demonstrating significant performance gains across diverse models."

By Hanzhang Zhou, Long Li, Quyu Kong, Lei Wang, Panrong Tong, Long Chen, Tianyu Xia, Gongjie Zhang, Xu Zhang, Chen Liu, Jianan Zhang, Chenglin Cai, Zhengwen Zeng, Steven Hoi, Yue Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 3

DeskCraft: Benchmarking Desktop Agents on Professional Workflows and Human-in-the-Loop Collaboration

arXiv:2606. 03103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world professional desktop workflows in specialized creative and engineering software unfold over long horizons and often require human-in-the-loop coordination, where agents proactively seek necessary information and users provide additional instructions, clarifications, feedback, or corrections as the task progresses.

By Wenkai Wang, Tao Xiong, Jingchen Ni, Yunpeng Bao, Xiyun Li, Tianqi Liu, Hongcan Guo, Zilong Huang, Shengyu Zhang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 14

KnowAct-GUIClaw: Know Deeply, Act Perfectly, Personal GUI Assistant with Self-Evolving Memory and Skill

OpenClaw has emerged as a leading agent framework for complex task automation, yet it faces insufficient cross-platform GUI interaction support and a well-built self-evolution mechanism. These flaws limit its adaptation to diverse device ecosystems and prevent performance improvements through continuous learning from execution experience.

arXiv AI
Sep 28

VLAA-GUI: Knowing When to Stop, Recover, and Search, A Modular Framework for GUI Automation

VLAA-GUI is a modular framework for autonomous GUI agents that addresses early stopping and repetitive loops by integrating three core components: a Completeness Verifier, a Loop Breaker, and an on-demand Search Agent. The framework also includes optional Coding and Grounding Agents for specialized tasks. Evaluations on five backbones across Linux and Windows benchmarks show strong performance, with some models surpassing human results and the Loop Breaker significantly reducing wasted steps.

By Qijun Han, Haoqin Tu, Zijun Wang, Haoyue Dai, Yiyang Zhou, Nancy Lau, Alvaro A. Cardenas, Yuhui Xu, Ran Xu, Caiming Xiong, Zeyu Zheng, Huaxiu Yao, Yuyin Zhou, Cihang Xie