7 papers
When Actions Go Off-Task: Detecting and Correcting Misaligned Actions in Computer-Use Agents
Yuting Ning, Jaylen Jones, Zhehao Zhang +5
Computer-use agents (CUAs) have made tremendous progress in the past year, yet they still frequently produce misaligned actions that deviate from the user's original intent. Such m…
When Benign Inputs Lead to Severe Harms: Eliciting Unsafe Unintended Behaviors of Computer-Use Agents
Jaylen Jones, Zhehao Zhang, Yuting Ning +6
Although computer-use agents (CUAs) hold significant potential to automate increasingly complex OS workflows, they can demonstrate unsafe unintended behaviors that deviate from exp…
SkillHarm: Lifecycle-Aware Skill-Based Attacks via Automated Construction
Yuting Ning, Zhehao Zhang, Yash Kumar Lal +8
Agent skills occupy a privileged position in the agent workflow, as agents are expected to implicitly follow and execute them, rendering third-party skills a vulnerable attack surf…
Agent Learning via Early Experience
Kai Zhang, Xiangchao Chen, Bo Liu +27
A long-term goal of language agents is to learn and improve through their own experience, ultimately outperforming humans in complex, real-world tasks. However, training agents fro…
QUEST: Training Frontier Deep Research Agents with Fully Synthetic Tasks
Jian Xie, Tianhe Lin, Zilu Wang +16
Deep research agents extend the role of search engines from retrieving keyword-matched pages to synthesizing knowledge, fundamentally changing how humans interact with information.…
Mind2Web 2: Evaluating Agentic Search with Agent-as-a-Judge
Boyu Gou, Zanming Huang, Yuting Ning +23
Agentic search such as Deep Research systems-where agents autonomously browse the web, synthesize information, and return comprehensive citation-backed answers-represents a major s…