GUI-AC: Enhancing Continual Learning in GUI Agents
Can Lin, Wenjun Yang, Tao Feng, Hangjie Yuan, Dan Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Zhonghong Ou, Wen Chen 等 9 位作者
AI 速览：GUI-AC提出一种持续强化微调框架，通过优势与策略概率联合刻画grounding rollout并引入grounding certainty，以针对性优化探索与过度自信问题。
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) serve as the dominant medium for human-computer interaction, yet building GUI agents that generalize across the vast diversity of real-world interface environments, with the same flexibility and robustness that humans naturally exhibit, remains unsolved. Notably, GUI data are inherently non-stationary: the continual emergence of previously unseen interface instances (e.g., novel domains and resolutions) induces persistent distribution shifts, significantly impeding the continual learning of existing GUI agents. Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) has attracted considerable attention as a promising approach. Nevertheless, RFT exhibits pronounced instability in its grounding capability, where rollout outcomes are highly imbalanced and fixed clipping can suppress valuable exploration. More importantly, policy probability alone does not reveal the semantic role of a grounding prediction. To address these challenges, we propose GUI-AC, a continual RFT framework that jointly characterizes grounding rollouts through advantage and policy probability. This yields a four-region view of grounding behavior and enables targeted optimization of Exploration and Overconfidence. GUI-AC further introduces grounding certainty to support two core mechanisms: (i) Adaptive Advantage, which strengthens the negative correction for overconfident grounding failures; and (ii) Dynamic Clipping, which relaxes the upper clipping bound for exploratory grounding rollouts. Extensive experiments show that GUI-AC consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines. Code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/GUI-AC-Code.
AI Cosmos Team, Jinfeng Zhou, Yuxuan Chen, Fangming Chang, Mingyu Su, Yifan Zhu, Yuan Wang, Bo Zhang 等 35 位作者
Large language models (LLMs) can improve task performance during learning, yet these gains do not necessarily reflect learners' ability to thereafter apply the knowledge and skills independently. We present AI Cosmos, an agentic infrastructure for situated learning that organizes learning around two complementary principles: scenario-based participation and cumulative assets of practice. AI Cosmos organizes learners and role-specialized agents within learning scenarios that integrate task-relevant knowledge and, when needed, executable workbenches. An asset-memory loop preserves the processes and outcomes of practice as reusable assets with explicit provenance and dependencies. We evaluate scenario-based interaction through two preregistered randomized controlled studies examining the acquisition of legal reasoning and programming competence, holding the same underlying LLM across conditions. AI Cosmos achieves greater learning gains than a conventional LLM in legal reasoning and higher mastery of unseen programming problems than an LLM-as-Teacher baseline.
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies can learn to follow execution preferences, such as where to grasp an object or how to move around an obstacle, from demonstrations annotated with preference labels. Providing these annotations for every new task, however, is costly. We study whether learned preference control can transfer to new tasks whose demonstrations contain the desired behaviors but lack preference annotations. We find that a policy trained with preference annotations can follow preferences on a new task before adaptation but achieves limited task success. Fine-tuning on target demonstrations without these annotations improves task success while weakening preference control. Motivated by this finding, we introduce Self-Labeled Preference Transfer (SPT). SPT jointly trains a shared vision-language backbone for preference-conditioned action prediction and preference recognition on annotated source demonstrations. It then freezes the recognizer to preserve its cross-task preference recognition capability and uses it to self-label target demonstrations for policy fine-tuning. Across five types of execution preferences in simulation, the recognizer achieves 96.4% accuracy, and SPT reaches 84.8% preference following and 89.2% task success, compared with 59.4% and 88.0% for naive finetuning. We further extend to multiple preferences, achieving 93.8% preference following compared with 42.5% of baselines. In real-world experiments, SPT increases preference following from 52.5% to 92.5% relative to naive finetuning across two task transfers. These results show that SPT can support preference adaptation across tasks and objects while maintaining success, without additional manual preference annotations.
Xin Shi, Chao Zhang, Yifan Zhu, Xueqiao Zhang, Yawei Luo Zhejiang University
The development of LLM-based tutor agents faces challenges in simultaneously ensuring adherence to pedagogical principles and achieving optimal pedagogical effectiveness, particularly in dynamic, multi-turn interactions. Existing methods are often constrained by static data or sparse reward signals in online settings. To address this gap, we propose \textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{H}orizon \textbf{P}reference \textbf{O}ptimization (\textbf{MHPO}), a novel framework that iteratively refines tutor agents using a multi-horizon reward function within a dynamic teacher-student simulation environment. Specifically, this reward function is designed to capture both turn-level pedagogical quality and trajectory-level pedagogical effectiveness, which is estimated via Monte Carlo rollouts. We further investigate two distinct strategies to aggregate these rewards for policy optimization. Our experiments demonstrate that MHPO significantly enhances base model performance, achieving a superior balance between principles and effectiveness compared to various baselines.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表
Yuwei Zhang, Wenhao Yu OpenAI, Shangbin Feng University of Washington, Yifan Zhu, Letian Peng, Jayanth Srinivasa Cisco, Gaowen Liu, Jingbo Shang University of California, San Diego
Despite significant advances in large language models (LLMs), their knowledge memorization capabilities remain underexplored, due to the lack of standardized and high-quality testing grounds. In this paper, we introduce a novel, real-world and large-scale knowledge injection benchmark that continuously evolves without human intervention. Specifically, we propose WikiDYK, which leverages recently-added and expert-curated facts from Wikipedia’s “Did You Know...” entries. Each entry is converted into multiple question–answer pairs spanning diverse task formats from easy cloze prompts to complex multi-hop questions. WikiDYK currently contains 12,290 facts and 77,180 questions, and its design allows for seamless extension with future updates from Wikipedia editors. Through extensive experiments using continued pre-training, we reveal a surprising insight: despite their prevalence in modern LLMs, Causal Language Models (CLMs) demonstrate significantly weaker knowledge memorization capabilities compared to Bidirectional Language Models (BiLMs), exhibiting a 23% lower accuracy in terms of reliability. To compensate for the smaller scales of current BiLMs, we introduce a modular collaborative framework utilizing ensembles of BiLMs as external knowledge repositories to integrate with LLMs. Experiment shows that this framework further improves the reliability accuracy by up to 29.1%. Code: https://github.com/zhang-yu-wei/WikiDYK.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表