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Spencer Whitehead

10 accepted papers

2026

Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness

ICLR 2026poster

We **color-coded** the added changes to the **paper** and **Appendix** for the comfort of our reviewers. Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) are an increasingly deployed class of agents that take actions on GUIs to accomplish user goals. In this paper, we show that CUAs consistently exhibit *Blind Goal-Dir…

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2026

WebGym: Scaling Training Environments for Long-Horizon Visual Web Agents with Realistic Tasks

CVPR 2026

We present WebGym, the largest-to-date open-source environment for training realistic visual web agents. Real websites are non-stationary and diverse, making artificial or small-scale task sets insufficient for robust policy learning. WebGym contains nearly 300,000 tasks with rubric-based evaluation

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2025

Explorer: Scaling Exploration-driven Web Trajectory Synthesis for Multimodal Web Agents

ACL 2025finding

Recent success in large multimodal models (LMMs) has sparked promising applications of agents capable of autonomously completing complex web tasks. While open-source LMM agents have made significant advances in offline evaluation benchmarks, their performance still falls substantially short of human…

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2024

Learning Goal-Conditioned Representations for Language Reward Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Techniques that learn improved representations via offline data or self-supervised objectives have shown impressive results in traditional reinforcement learning. Nevertheless, it is unclear how improved representation learning can benefit reinforcement learning from human feedback on language model…

2023

CoLLAT: On Adding Fine-grained Audio Understanding to Language Models using Token-Level Locked-Language Tuning

NeurIPS 2023poster

Humans can easily understand various audio concepts, but conventional audio classification models fail due to their inability to predict unseen classes during training. To address this challenge, recent literature has explored contrastive language-audio pretraining to learn an audio understanding mo…

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2023

Improving Selective Visual Question Answering by Learning From Your Peers

CVPR 2023poster

Despite advances in Visual Question Answering (VQA), the ability of models to assess their own correctness remains underexplored. Recent work has shown that VQA models, out-of-the-box, can have difficulties abstaining from answering when they are wrong. The option to abstain, also called Selective P…

2022

Reliable Visual Question Answering: Abstain Rather Than Answer Incorrectly

ECCV 2022poster

"Machine learning has advanced dramatically, narrowing the accuracy gap to humans in multimodal tasks like visual question answering (VQA). However, while humans can say ""I don’t know"" when they are uncertain (i.e., abstain from answering a question), such ability has been largely neglected in mul…

2021

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to First-Order Logic Theorem Proving

AAAI 2021technical

Automated theorem provers have traditionally relied on manually tuned heuristics to guide how they perform proof search. Deep reinforcement learning has been proposed as a way to obviate the need for such heuristics, however, its deployment in automated theorem proving remains a challenge. In this p…

2021

Separating Skills and Concepts for Novel Visual Question Answering

CVPR 2021poster

Generalization to out-of-distribution data has been a problem for Visual Question Answering (VQA) models. To measure generalization to novel questions, we propose to separate them into "skills" and "concepts". "Skills" are visual tasks, such as counting or attribute recognition, and are applied to "…

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