arXiv AI

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.

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 21

RecreationWorld: Scalable and Verifiable Environments for Hybrid Computer-Use Agents

arXiv:2609.22000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs) have advanced along two separate lines: graphical interaction and software development through code and the command line. Re...

By Shuai Bai, Jiayong Deng, Yikun Fu, Chang Gao, Xuhao Hu, Mianqiu Huang, Yizhen Jiang, Yuheng Jing, Dehui Kong, Keliang Li, Ning Li, Wanli Li, Dayiheng Liu, Dunjie Lu, Changwei Luo, Que Shen, Zheyuan Wang, Zijian Wang, Jie Wu, Gao Wu, Zhihui Xie, Rui Xie, Haiyang Xu, An Yang, Jiakang Yuan, Yanming Zhang, Jiajun Zhang, Xi Zhang, Zhenru Zhang, Zhuo Zhen, Mingkang Zhu, Bowen Zhou
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 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 Machine Learning
Aug 4

Qwen-CUA: Native Computer Use for (almost) Everything

arXiv:2608. 02352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Native computer use offers a general interface for agents to operate almost any software available to people, but requires long-horizon state tracking, large-scale interactive experience, and learning from sparse yet verifiable outcomes.

By Dunjie Lu, Shuai Bai, Tianyi Bai, Sicheng Fan, Chang Gao, Jian Guan, Feng Hu, Mianqiu Huang, Xingyang Huang, Yizhen Jiang, Yuheng Jing, Dehui Kong, Ning Li, Dayiheng Liu, Shixuan Liu, Zheng Liu, Que Shen, Bowen Wang, Junli Wang, Chencan Wu, Rui Xie, Tianbao Xie, Zhihui Xie, Haiyang Xu, An Yang, Tao Yu, Wenzhen Yuan, Xi Zhang, Zhenru Zhang, Mingkang Zhu, Zhaoqing Zhu, Yizhong Cao, Kai Dang, Binyuan Hui, Kaixin Li, Junyang Lin, Haiquan Wang, Zekun Wang, Yiheng Xu, Fan Yan, Mengqi Yuan, Danyang Zhang, Jiajun Zhang, Zhipeng Zhang, Fan Zhou, Fan Zhou
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