Computer-use agents often fail on transient GUI events because they produce the correct action only after the relevant window has already closed. We identify the main cause as expensive autoregressive decoding on the decision-time critical path.
arXiv:2608. 00881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly act through stateful tools, yet model generation and environment execution remain serialized at every step.
By Hao Mark Chen, Jinnan Guo, Wayne Luk, Hongxiang Fan
arXiv:2606. 17929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-using agents drive real software through the screen -- clicking and typing -- but they solve every task from scratch: asked to repeat a task, an agent re-reads the screen, re-reasons every tap, and pays the full cost again.
By Bojie Li
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:2607. 26041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs) increasingly act through desktop GUIs to complete long-horizon tasks.
By Abhishek Pillai, Samir Kumar Nayak, Yuan Chen
Software engineering (SWE) agents resolve repository-level issues through long trajectories that grow increasingly expensive as context accumulates. Failed runs tend to be longer and exhibit redundant exploration or looping, suggesting that some failures may be detectable before completion.
arXiv:2608. 15089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents can fail even when their underlying models can solve the constituent steps.
By Ziheng Qin, Yaxin Lu, Zhangyang Atlas Wang, Kai Wang
arXiv:2606. 24470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A real-time agent for general computer use - with games as the most demanding case - must act within tens of milliseconds while still planning over seconds.
By Bojie Li, Noah Shi
arXiv:2608. 03222v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software engineering (SWE) agents resolve repository-level issues through long trajectories that grow increasingly expensive as context accumulates.
By Chenyu Wang, Yunbo Lyu, Junda He, Zhou Yang, Chenxing Zhong, Yaniv Harel, David Lo
arXiv:2608. 05784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents pay full frontier inference to re-derive routines their user has already performed, because an agent's memory today records what the user said, not what the user did.
By Nossa Iyamu
arXiv:2605. 09692v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous language agents increasingly expose traces, memories, plans and constraints, but existing evaluations rarely test whether these state variables are bound to final actions.
By Xiao Jia
arXiv:2607. 03333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are becoming a common interface for research, coding, and question answering, yet their Thought-Action-Observation loop is often serial: the model reasons, emits a tool call, then idles the GPU until the result returns.
By Huajun Bai, Weiwei Lv, Huichuan Zheng, Youyou Lu, Jiwu Shu