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Tianbao Xie

24 accepted papers

2026

Bringing Code ALIVE: Optimizing Interactive Frontend Mini-Games via Automated Play and Reinforcement Learning at Scale

ICML 2026poster

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has empowered even non-programmers to create visually appealing frontend mini-games with a single instruction. However, open-source models significantly lag behind proprietary counterparts in this domain. The core bottleneck is the lack of an evalu…

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2026

Computer Agent Arena: Toward Human-Centric Evaluation and Analysis of Computer-Use Agents

ICLR 2026poster

As Computer-Use Agents (CUAs) proliferate and grow increasingly capable, evaluation has become more challenging: static, manually curated benchmarks are narrow in domain, contamination-prone, and environment-heavy, and they diverge substantially from user-driven, real-world evaluation. We present Co…

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2026

MMBench-GUI: A Unified Hierarchical Evaluation Framework for Multi-Platform GUI Agents

CVPR 2026

We introduce MMBench-GUI, a hierarchical benchmark for evaluating GUI automation agents across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and Web. The benchmark spans four levels: Content Understanding, Element Grounding, Task Automation, and Task Collaboration, covering essential skills for GUI agents. T

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2026

OSWorld-MCP: Benchmarking MCP Tool Invocation In Computer-Use Agents

ICLR 2026poster

With advances in decision-making and reasoning capabilities, multimodal agents show strong potential in computer application scenarios. Past evaluations have mainly assessed GUI interaction skills, while tool invocation abilities, such as those enabled by the Model Context Protocol (MCP), have been…

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2026

RLAnything: Forge Environment, Policy, and Reward Model in Completely Dynamic RL System

ICML 2026poster

The quality of both the environment and the reward model fundamentally governs the effectiveness of reinforcement learning. Accordingly, we propose RLAnything, a reinforcement learning framework that dynamically optimizes each component through closed-loop optimization, amplifying learning signals a…

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2026

ScienceBoard: Evaluating Multimodal Autonomous Agents in Realistic Scientific Workflows

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have extended their impact beyond Natural Language Processing, substantially fostering the development of interdisciplinary research. Recently, various LLM-based agents have been developed to assist scientific discovery progress across multiple aspects and domains. Among…

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2025

AgentStore: Scalable Integration of Heterogeneous Agents As Specialized Generalist Computer Assistant

ACL 2025finding

Digital agents capable of automating complex computer tasks have attracted considerable attention. However, existing agent methods exhibit deficiencies in their generalization and specialization capabilities, especially in handling open-ended computer tasks in real-world environments. Inspired by th…

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2025

Aguvis: Unified Pure Vision Agents for Autonomous GUI Interaction

ICML 2025poster

Automating GUI tasks remains challenging due to reliance on textual representations, platform-specific action spaces, and limited reasoning capabilities. We introduce Aguvis, a unified vision-based framework for autonomous GUI agents that directly operates on screen images, standardizes cross-platfo…

2025

Cradle: Empowering Foundation Agents towards General Computer Control

ICML 2025poster

Despite their success in specific scenarios, existing foundation agents still struggle to generalize across various virtual scenarios, mainly due to the dramatically different encapsulations of environments with manually designed observation and action spaces. To handle this issue, we propose the Ge…

2025

OpenCUA: Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Vision-language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities as computer-use agents (CUAs) capable of automating diverse computer tasks. As their commercial potential grows, critical details of the most capable CUA systems remain closed. As these agents will increasingly mediate digital interact…

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2025

Scaling Computer-Use Grounding via User Interface Decomposition and Synthesis

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Graphical user interface (GUI) grounding, the ability to map natural language instructions to specific actions on graphical user interfaces, remains a critical bottleneck in computer use agent development. Current benchmarks oversimplify grounding tasks as short referring expressions, failing to ca…

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2024

Lemur: Harmonizing Natural Language and Code for Language Agents

ICLR 2024spotlight

We introduce Lemur and Lemur-Chat, openly accessible language models optimized for both natural language and coding capabilities to serve as the backbone of versatile language agents. The evolution from language chat models to functional language agents demands that models not only master human inte…

2024

OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments

NeurIPS 2024poster

Autonomous agents that accomplish complex computer tasks with minimal human interventions have the potential to transform human-computer interaction, significantly enhancing accessibility and productivity. However, existing benchmarks either lack an interactive environment or are limited to environm…

2024

Spider2-V: How Far Are Multimodal Agents From Automating Data Science and Engineering Workflows?

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

Data science and engineering workflows often span multiple stages, from warehousing to orchestration, using tools like BigQuery, dbt, and Airbyte. As vision language models (VLMs) advance in multimodal understanding and code generation, VLM-based agents could potentially automate these workflows by…

2024

Text2Reward: Reward Shaping with Language Models for Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2024spotlight

Designing reward functions is a longstanding challenge in reinforcement learning (RL); it requires specialized knowledge or domain data, leading to high costs for development. To address this, we introduce Text2Reward, a data-free framework that automates the generation and shaping of dense reward f…

2023

Binding Language Models in Symbolic Languages

ICLR 2023top-25%

Though end-to-end neural approaches have recently been dominating NLP tasks in both performance and ease-of-use, they lack interpretability and robustness. We propose Binder, a training-free neural-symbolic framework that maps the task input to a program, which (1) allows binding a unified API of la…

2022

CGIM: A Cycle Guided Interactive Learning Model for Consistency Identification in Task-oriented Dialogue

COLING 2022main

Consistency identification in task-oriented dialog (CI-ToD) usually consists of three subtasks, aiming to identify inconsistency between current system response and current user response, dialog history and the corresponding knowledge base. This work aims to solve CI-ToD task by introducing an expli…

2022

GL-CLeF: A Global–Local Contrastive Learning Framework for Cross-lingual Spoken Language Understanding

ACL 2022long

Due to high data demands of current methods, attention to zero-shot cross-lingual spoken language understanding (SLU) has grown, as such approaches greatly reduce human annotation effort. However, existing models solely rely on shared parameters, which can only perform implicit alignment across lang…

2022

In-Context Learning for Few-Shot Dialogue State Tracking

EMNLP 2022finding

Collecting and annotating task-oriented dialogues is time-consuming and costly. Thus, zero and few shot learning for dialogue tasks presents an exciting opportunity. In this work, we propose an in-context (IC) learning framework for zero-shot and few-shot learning dialogue state tracking (DST), wher…

2022

UnifiedSKG: Unifying and Multi-Tasking Structured Knowledge Grounding with Text-to-Text Language Models

EMNLP 2022main

Structured knowledge grounding (SKG) leverages structured knowledge to complete user requests, such as semantic parsing over databases and question answering over knowledge bases. Since the inputs and outputs of SKG tasks are heterogeneous, they have been studied separately by different communities,…

2021

A Survey on Spoken Language Understanding: Recent Advances and New Frontiers

IJCAI 2021poster

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) aims to extract the semantics frame of user queries, which is a core component in a task-oriented dialog system. With the burst of deep neural networks and the evolution of pre-trained language models, the research of SLU has obtained significant breakthroughs. How…

2021

Don’t be Contradicted with Anything! CI-ToD: Towards Benchmarking Consistency for Task-oriented Dialogue System

EMNLP 2021main

Consistency Identification has obtained remarkable success on open-domain dialogue, which can be used for preventing inconsistent response generation. However, in contrast to the rapid development in open-domain dialogue, few efforts have been made to the task-oriented dialogue direction. In this pa…

2021

GL-GIN: Fast and Accurate Non-Autoregressive Model for Joint Multiple Intent Detection and Slot Filling

ACL 2021long

Multi-intent SLU can handle multiple intents in an utterance, which has attracted increasing attention. However, the state-of-the-art joint models heavily rely on autoregressive approaches, resulting in two issues: slow inference speed and information leakage. In this paper, we explore a non-autoreg…