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  • Efficient Agent Training for Computer Use Yanheng He Β· Jiahe Jin Β· Pengfei Liu
    arXiv:2505.13909v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling up high-quality trajectory data has long been a critical bottleneck for developing human-like computer use agents. We introduce PC Agent-E, an efficient agent training framework that significantly reduces reliance on large-scale human demonstrations. Starting with just 312 human-annotated computer use trajectories, we further augment them by synthesizing diverse alternative action decisions with Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Trained on these enri
     

Efficient Agent Training for Computer Use

arXiv:2505.13909v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling up high-quality trajectory data has long been a critical bottleneck for developing human-like computer use agents. We introduce PC Agent-E, an efficient agent training framework that significantly reduces reliance on large-scale human demonstrations. Starting with just 312 human-annotated computer use trajectories, we further augment them by synthesizing diverse alternative action decisions with Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Trained on these enriched trajectories, our PC Agent-E model achieved a remarkable 141 relative improvement, and even surpassed the Claude 3.7 Sonnet by 10% in relative terms on WindowsAgentArena-V2, an improved benchmark we also released. By integrating robust human computer use skills with automated AI data synthesis capabilities, our method not only brought substantial improvements over training on human trajectories alone, but also significantly surpassed direct distillation from Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Code, data and models are available at https://github.com/GAIR-NLP/PC-Agent-E

Mantis: A Versatile Vision-Language-Action Model with Disentangled Visual Foresight

arXiv:2511.16175v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate that visual signals can effectively complement sparse action supervisions. However, letting VLA directly predict high-dimensional visual states can distribute model capacity and incur prohibitive training cost, while compressing visual states into more compact supervisory signals inevitably incurs information bottlenecks. Moreover, existing methods often suffer from poor comprehension and reasoning capabilities due to the neglect of language supervision. This paper introduces Mantis, a novel framework featuring a Disentangled Visual Foresight (DVF) to tackle these issues. Specifically, Mantis decouples visual foresight prediction from the backbone with the combination of meta queries and a diffusion Transformer (DiT) head. With the current visual state provided to the DiT via a residual connection, a simple next-state prediction objective enables the meta queries to automatically capture the latent actions that delineate the visual trajectory, and hence boost the learning of explicit actions. The disentanglement reduces the burden of the VLA backbone, enabling it to maintain comprehension and reasoning capabilities through language supervision. Empirically, pretrained on human manipulation videos, robot demonstrations, and image-text pairs, Mantis achieves a 96.7% success rate on LIBERO benchmark after fine-tuning, surpassing powerful baselines while exhibiting high convergence speed. Real-world evaluations show that Mantis outperforms $\pi_{0.5}$, a leading open-source VLA model, particularly in instruction-following capability, generalization to unseen instructions, and reasoning ability. Code and weights are released to support the open-source community.
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