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most citedDeep Research Agents: A Systematic Examination And Roadmap

2 citations · 9 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.AI2026

K^2-Agent: Co-Evolving Know-What and Know-How for Hierarchical Mobile Device Control

Zhe Wu, Donglin Mo, Hongjin Lu +7

Existing mobile device control agents often perform poorly when solving complex tasks requiring long-horizon planning and precise operations, typically due to a lack of relevant ta…

cs.RO2026

ActionCodec: What Makes for Good Action Tokenizers

Zibin Dong, Yicheng Liu, Shiduo Zhang +8

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models leveraging the native autoregressive paradigm of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated superior instruction-following and training eff…

cs.AI2025

Enhancing the Medical Context-Awareness Ability of LLMs via Multifaceted Self-Refinement Learning

Yuxuan Zhou, Yubin Wang, Bin Wang +4

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in the medical domain, achieving strong performance on several benchmarks. However, they continue to underperform in real-worl…

cs.AI2025

Hi-Agent: Hierarchical Vision-Language Agents for Mobile Device Control

Zhe Wu, Hongjin Lu, Junliang Xing +10

Building agents that autonomously operate mobile devices has attracted increasing attention. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show promise, most existing approaches rely on dire…

cs.LG2025

Succeed or Learn Slowly: Sample Efficient Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Mobile App Control

Georgios Papoudakis, Thomas Coste, Jianye Hao +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) using foundation models for policy approximations in multi-turn tasks remains challenging. We identify two main limitations related to sparse reward set…

cs.CV2025

Uncertainty-quantified Rollout Policy Adaptation for Unlabelled Cross-domain Temporal Grounding

Jian Hu, Zixu Cheng, Shaogang Gong +4

Video Temporal Grounding (TG) aims to temporally locate video segments matching a natural language description (a query) in a long video. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are ef…

cs.AI2025

Collab-Solver: Collaborative Solving Policy Learning for Mixed-Integer Linear Programming

Siyuan Li, Yifan Yu, Zhihao Zhang +5

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has been a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. Conventional MILP solving mainly relies on carefully designed heuristics embed…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

Deep Research Agents: A Systematic Examination And Roadmap

Yuxuan Huang, Yihang Chen, Haozheng Zhang +10

The rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) has given rise to a new category of autonomous AI systems, referred to as Deep Research (DR) agents. These agents are designed to…

cs.AI2025

Beyond Syntax: Action Semantics Learning for App Agents

Bohan Tang, Dezhao Luo, Jianheng Liu +5

The recent development of Large Language Models (LLMs) enables the rise of App agents that interpret user intent and operate smartphone Apps through actions such as clicking and sc…

cs.CL2025

AgentSwift: Efficient LLM Agent Design via Value-guided Hierarchical Search

Yu Li, Lehui Li, Zhihao Wu +5

Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated strong capabilities across diverse domains, yet automated agent design remains a significant challenge. Current automated agent…

cs.HC2025

ViMo: A Generative Visual GUI World Model for App Agents

Dezhao Luo, Bohan Tang, Kang Li +6

App agents, which autonomously operate mobile Apps through Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), have gained significant interest in real-world applications. Yet, they often struggle w…

cs.AI2025

AppVLM: A Lightweight Vision Language Model for Online App Control

Georgios Papoudakis, Thomas Coste, Zhihao Wu +3

The utilisation of foundation models as smartphone assistants, termed app agents, is a critical research challenge. These agents aim to execute human instructions on smartphones by…

cs.LG2025

Generative Models in Decision Making: A Survey

Xinyu Shao, Jianping Zhang, Haozhi Wang +9

Generative models have fundamentally reshaped the landscape of decision-making, reframing the problem from pure scalar reward maximization to high-fidelity trajectory generation an…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Advancing Autonomous VLM Agents via Variational Subgoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

Qingyuan Wu, Jianheng Liu, Jianye Hao +2

State-of-the-art (SOTA) reinforcement learning (RL) methods have enabled vision-language model (VLM) agents to learn from interaction with online environments without human supervi…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Evolving LLMs' Self-Refinement Capability via Synergistic Training-Inference Optimization

Yongcheng Zeng, Xinyu Cui, Xuanfa Jin +11

Self-Refinement refers to a model's ability to revise its own responses to produce improved outputs. This capability can also serve as a fundamental mechanism for Self-Improvement,…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Trajectory World Models for Heterogeneous Environments

Shaofeng Yin, Jialong Wu, Siqiao Huang +4

Heterogeneity in sensors and actuators across environments poses a significant challenge to building large-scale pre-trained world models on top of this low-dimensional sensor info…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

GUI Agents with Foundation Models: A Comprehensive Survey

Shuai Wang, Weiwen Liu, Jingxuan Chen +12

Recent advances in foundation models, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), have facilitated the development of intelligent agents…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Kolb-Based Experiential Learning for Generalist Agents with Human-Level Kaggle Data Science Performance

Antoine Grosnit, Alexandre Maraval, Refinath S N +16

Human expertise emerges through iterative cycles of interaction, reflection, and internal model updating, which are central to cognitive theories such as Kolb's experiential learni…

cs.AI2024

Lightweight Neural App Control

Filippos Christianos, Georgios Papoudakis, Thomas Coste +3

This paper introduces a novel mobile phone control architecture, Lightweight Multi-modal App Control (LiMAC), for efficient interactions and control across various Android apps. Li…

cs.AI2024

SPA-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for SmartPhone Agent Evaluation

Jingxuan Chen, Derek Yuen, Bin Xie +14

Smartphone agents are increasingly important for helping users control devices efficiently, with (Multimodal) Large Language Model (MLLM)-based approaches emerging as key contender…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

DistRL: An Asynchronous Distributed Reinforcement Learning Framework for On-Device Control Agents

Taiyi Wang, Zhihao Wu, Jianheng Liu +3

On-device control agents, especially on mobile devices, are responsible for operating mobile devices to fulfill users' requests, enabling seamless and intuitive interactions. Integ…