Junchen Ding, Jialiang Dong, Yichen Zhu, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng, Willy Susilo, Siqi Ma, Yuekang Li
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into cybersecurity has transformed vulnerability assessment, but it has also produced a trustworthiness crisis driven by the unchecked proliferation of "AI slop." These artifacts, hallucinated vulnerabilities, plausible but incorrect patches, and semantically repackaged bug reports, impose a cognitive burden on human triage pipelines that mirrors a denial-of-service attack. This paper surveys the empirical evidence, identifies a unifying mechanism, and traces a path toward trustworthy triage. We formalize a taxonomy of AI slop grounded in a structured literature review and dissect its root cause: the gap between the causal deductive reasoning of security experts and the autoregressive probabilistic generation of current LLMs. We operationalize this gap through a measurable proxy, the Deductive Coverage Score, and show that chain-of-thought prompting and tool-using agents narrow but do not close it. We review mitigation strategies and argue that passive detection and watermarking target provenance rather than correctness, facing fundamental entropy constraints. We instead advocate for active neuro-symbolic verification, mapping each pipeline component to prior systems with documented limits on security inputs. Finally, we specify two evaluation instruments, CVE-Bench and Slop-Score, including dataset construction, metric formulas, and anti-gaming provisions. By shifting evaluation from linguistic fluency to mathematical verifiability, this survey provides a roadmap for securing emerging AI-driven triage systems.
Computer-using agents are increasingly capable of performing complex tasks in the digital world. To advance such agents, supervised learning on annotated interaction trajectories has become a common approach to improving their task-solving capabilities. However, high-quality interaction trajectories remain scarce for specialized desktop applications, where limited application knowledge, complex GUI workflows, and incomplete exploration hinder automated collection. To address these challenges, we introduce \aks{}, a knowledge-guided automated trajectory collection framework. It combines tutorial-guided exploration with a hybrid GUI--Code action space, providing application-specific knowledge and simplifying GUI workflows through direct execution of application-native commands. The framework also checkpoints and revisits pivotal states during tree exploration to explore alternative workflows, complementing linear rollouts for broader coverage. We collect 10.9K automatically validated trajectories and use them to fine-tune open-source base models. The resulting model achieves 64.1\% accuracy on a benchmark of specialized desktop workflows, improving performance by 58.2 percentage points, establishing a new state of the art. The fine-tuned model also improves performance on general desktop workflows using GUI actions only, suggesting that the collected supervision benefits general desktop tasks as well. Comparative experiments and ablations demonstrate the efficiency of our collection framework and the value of code actions in specialized workflows.
Data sparsity, a long-standing problem in the recommendation system, occurs when the user-item utility matrix is sparse. For years, many approaches have been experimented with, including utilizing user's textual reviews and multiple criteria ratings. In a review-based recommendation system, user preferences and item attributes are learned from reviews, while in multi-criteria recommendation systems, criteria ratings are used for the recommendation task. Multi-criteria are domain-specific pre-defined explicit criteria and users are bound to provide feedback only on these criteria with discrete values. On the contrary, users are free to express their opinions through textual reviews, which can cover multiple perspectives or aspects. It is possible that these pre-defined, domain-specific explicit criteria are not enough to fully capture the multi-faceted user preferences. To this end, we propose a novel multi-criteria recommendation model that utilizes predefined, implicit, and undefined criteria. We use a semantic similarity-based sentence clustering method to identify the predefined and implicit criteria and a sentiment analyzer to estimate their ratings. The criteria that are extracted from the review and are aligned with predefined criteria are referred to as implicit criteria. A sentence is considered as expressing opinions on an undefined criterion if the similarity score between this sentence and all the predefined criteria is lower than a predefined threshold. Ratings are computed for each extracted implicit criterion and the undefined criterion based on the review content. Finally, we use all three types of criteria and an aggregation model to make the final rating prediction for the recommendation system. Our proposed method demonstrates the superiority compared to several baselines on TripAdvisor and Beer Advocate datasets.
These days, due to the advancement of information technology, recommendation system has become one of the key tools for e-commerce business. E-commerce platforms allow users to provide feedback in both written comments and numerical ratings. Recommendation systems are utilized to recommend users to new or unseen items based on these previously collected comments or ratings. In recent years, multi-aspect or multi-criteria based recommendation systems have been studied a lot by the recommendation research community. However, these research works are conducted either with reviews or ratings, not with both. In this project, we argue that integrating both textual reviews (with multiple aspects) and numerical multi-criteria ratings can further enhance the overall rating prediction accuracy. We propose a Multi-criteria Rating and Review based Recommendation model (MRRRec). We show that incorporating multi-criteria ratings into multi-aspect ratings from reviews has a great impact on performance. Our proposed model outperforms several state-of-the-art models such as ANR, DeepCoNN, and Deep Multi-criteria Recommendation System in terms of MSE, MAE, precision, recall, and F1. We show that our proposed model achieves an average of 19% and 23.0% lower MSE and MAE respectively and 7.0%, 1.0% and 3.8% higher precision, recall, and F1 score respectively. We further show that our model performs significantly better with Word2Vec word embedding than the GloVe word embedding method.
The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has catalyzed the development of autonomous agents capable of navigating complex environments. However, existing evaluations primarily adopt a deductive paradigm, where agents execute tasks based on explicitly provided rules and static goals, often within limited planning horizons. Crucially, this neglects the inductive necessity for agents to discover latent transition laws from experience autonomously, which is the cornerstone for enabling agentic foresight and sustaining strategic coherence. To bridge this gap, we introduce OdysseyArena, which re-centers agent evaluation on long-horizon, active, and inductive interactions. We formalize and instantiate four primitives, translating abstract transition dynamics into concrete interactive environments. Building upon this, we establish OdysseyArena-Lite for standardized benchmarking, providing a set of 120 tasks to measure an agent's inductive efficiency and long-horizon discovery. Pushing further, we introduce OdysseyArena-Challenge to stress-test agent stability across extreme interaction horizons (e.g., > 200 steps). Extensive experiments on 15+ leading LLMs reveal that even frontier models exhibit a deficiency in inductive scenarios, identifying a critical bottleneck in the pursuit of autonomous discovery in complex environments. Project homepage: https://os-copilot.github.io/OdysseyArena-Home/
While dataset distillation has witnessed significant advances in image classification, its extension to dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation is plagued by two core bottlenecks: bi-level optimization-based approaches suffer from prohibitive computational costs stemming from pixel-wise gradient unrolling, whereas proxy-based generative methods merely infuse visual textures into fixed semantic masks derived from real data, thus failing to condense rich semantic knowledge into a compact set of informative, novel scene generations. To address both bottlenecks simultaneously, we propose a novel Sample-Set Reinforcement Learning (S$^2$-RL) framework for generative semantic segmentation dataset distillation (SSDD). Specifically, S$^2$-RL formulates SSDD as a diffusion model based text-to-image generation paradigm, enabling flexible generation of images with informative, novel semantic distributions via a concise text prompt. Furthermore, we fine-tune a diffusion policy via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), leveraging a sample-set dual reward paradigm: for individual samples, it enforces semantic alignment with input text prompts and intra-class feature diversity; for sample sets, it maximizes inter-sample semantic distribution diversity by solving a contextual multi-armed bandit problem. These design choices enable S$^2$-RL to distill large-scale semantic segmentation datasets into a compact set of generated samples that encapsulate diverse, informative semantic knowledge without the need of pixel-wise gradient unrolling. Extensive experiments on the ADE20K and COCO datasets demonstrate that S$^2$-RL achieves substantial and consistent improvements over state-of-the-art baselines, establishing a new benchmark for SSDD.
Bowen Yang, Kaiming Jin national university of singaore, National University of Singapore, Zhenyu Wu, Zhaoyang Liu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Shanghai AI Laboratory, Qiushi Sun University of Hong Kong, Zehao Li University of Science and Technology of China, JingJing Xie, Zhoumianze Liu 等 15 位作者
While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly advanced Computer-Using Agents (CUAs), current agentic frameworks struggle with robustness in novel domains and long-horizon workflows due to the absence of visual-aware tutorial retrieval and the lack of granular control over historical visual context curation and pruning. To bridge these gaps, we introduce OS-Symphony, a holistic framework that comprises an Orchestrator coordinating two key innovations for robust automation: (1) a Reflection-Memory Agent that utilizes milestone-driven long-term memory to enable trajectory-level self-correction, effectively mitigating visual context loss in long-horizon tasks; (2) Versatile Tool Agents featuring a Multimodal Searcher that adopts a “SeeAct” paradigm to navigate a browser-based sandbox to synthesize live, visually aligned tutorials, thereby resolving fidelity issues in unseen scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that OS-Symphony delivers substantial performance gains across varying model scales, establishing new state-of-the-art results on three online benchmarks, notably achieving 65.84% on OSWorld. All research assets will be made publicly available.
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cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.CV
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表
Qiushi Sun University of Hong Kong, Mukai Li, Zhoumianze Liu, Zhihui Xie University of Hong Kong, Fangzhi Xu Xi'an Jiaotong University, Zhangyue Yin, Kanzhi Cheng Nanjing University, Zehao Li University of Science and Technology of China 等 14 位作者
Computer-using agents powered by Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated human-like capabilities in operating digital environments like mobile platforms. While these agents hold great promise for advancing digital automation, their potential for unsafe operations, such as system compromise and privacy leakage, is raising significant concerns. Detecting these safety concerns across the vast and complex operational space of mobile environments presents a formidable challenge that remains critically underexplored. To establish a foundation for mobile agent safety research, we introduce MobileRisk-Live, a dynamic sandbox environment accompanied by a safety detection benchmark comprising realistic trajectories with fine-grained annotations. Built upon this, we propose OS-Sentinel, a novel hybrid safety detection framework that synergistically combines a Formal Verifier for detecting explicit system-level violations with a VLM-based Contextual Judge for assessing contextual risks and agent actions. Experiments show that achieves 10%–30% improvements over existing approaches across multiple metrics. Further analysis provides critical insights that foster the development of safer and more reliable autonomous mobile agents. Our code, environment, and data are available at https://qiushisun.github.io/OS-Sentinel-Home/.
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cs.CL · cs.CV
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表