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Gongwei Chen

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Enhancing GUI Agent with Uncertainty-Aware Self-Trained Evaluator

Gongwei Chen
Lirong Jie
Lexiao Zou
Weili Guan
Miao Zhang
Liqiang Nie

Benefiting from the availability of extensive navigation trajectories, both manually and automatically annotated, current graphical user interface (GUI) agents have achieved remarkable advancements in performance. However, these annotated datasets often contain substantial noise, which impedes effective agent training and underscores the necessity for rigorous trajectory quality assessment. In contrast to existing prompting-based evaluators that rely on proprietary multimodal large language models (MLLMs), we propose an Uncertainty-aware Reinforced Self-Training (URST) framework to train lightweight MLLMs for efficient and reliable trajectory evaluation. URST iteratively fine-tunes MLLMs using their own generated thoughts and judgments to enable self-improvement, while its uncertainty-aware sampling strategy ensures the selection of the most informative training examples. To further enhance reasoning and judgment capabilities, we propose a simplified group policy optimization approach that effectively leverages diverse positive and negative samples for evaluator learning. Our evaluator demonstrates superior judgment performance across both in-domain and out-of-domain datasets. When used to filter navigation datasets, it consistently leads to performance improvements in training GUI agents.

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ICLR Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Spa-Bench: a comprehensive Benchmark for Smartphone Agent Evaluation

Jingxuan Chen
Derek Yuen
Bin Xie
Yuhao Yang 0008
Gongwei Chen
Zhihao Wu
Li Yixing
Xurui Zhou

Smartphone agents are increasingly important for helping users control devices efficiently, with (Multimodal) Large Language Model (MLLM)-based approaches emerging as key contenders. Fairly comparing these agents is essential but challenging, requiring a varied task scope, the integration of agents with different implementations, and a generalisable evaluation pipeline to assess their strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we present SPA-Bench, a comprehensive SmartPhone Agent Benchmark designed to evaluate (M)LLM-based agents in an interactive environment that simulates real-world conditions. SPA-Bench offers three key contributions: (1) A diverse set of tasks covering system and third-party apps in both English and Chinese, focusing on features commonly used in daily routines; (2) A plug-and-play framework enabling real-time agent interaction with Android devices, integrating over ten agents with the flexibility to add more; (3) A novel evaluation pipeline that automatically assesses agent performance across multiple dimensions, encompassing seven metrics related to task completion and resource consumption. Our extensive experiments across tasks and agents reveal challenges like interpreting mobile user interfaces, action grounding, memory retention, and execution costs. We propose future research directions to ease these difficulties, moving closer to real-world smartphone agent applications.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Decision Mamba: A Multi-Grained State Space Model with Self-Evolution Regularization for Offline RL

Qi Lv
Xiang Deng
Gongwei Chen
Michael Y. Wang
Liqiang Nie

While the conditional sequence modeling with the transformer architecture has demonstrated its effectiveness in dealing with offline reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, it is struggle to handle out-of-distribution states and actions. Existing work attempts to address this issue by data augmentation with the learned policy or adding extra constraints with the value-based RL algorithm. However, these studies still fail to overcome the following challenges: (1) insufficiently utilizing the historical temporal information among inter-steps, (2) overlooking the local intra-step relationships among return-to-gos (RTGs), states, and actions, (3) overfitting suboptimal trajectories with noisy labels. To address these challenges, we propose $\textbf{D}$ecision $\textbf{M}$amba ($\textbf{DM}$), a novel multi-grained state space model (SSM) with a self-evolving policy learning strategy. DM explicitly models the historical hidden state to extract the temporal information by using the mamba architecture. To capture the relationship among RTG-state-action triplets, a fine-grained SSM module is designed and integrated into the original coarse-grained SSM in mamba, resulting in a novel mamba architecture tailored for offline RL. Finally, to mitigate the overfitting issue on noisy trajectories, a self-evolving policy is proposed by using progressive regularization. The policy evolves by using its own past knowledge to refine the suboptimal actions, thus enhancing its robustness on noisy demonstrations. Extensive experiments on various tasks show that DM outperforms other baselines substantially.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

MoME: Mixture of Multimodal Experts for Generalist Multimodal Large Language Models

Leyang Shen
Gongwei Chen
Rui Shao
Weili Guan
Liqiang Nie

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various vision-language tasks. However, a generalist MLLM typically underperforms compared with a specialist MLLM on most VL tasks, which can be attributed to task interference. In this paper, we propose a mixture of multimodal experts (MoME) to mitigate task interference and obtain a generalist MLLM. Our MoME is composed of two key components, a mixture of vision experts (MoVE) and a mixture of language experts (MoLE). MoVE can adaptively modulate the features transformed from various vision encoders, and has a strong compatibility in transformation architecture. MoLE incorporates sparsely gated experts into LLMs to achieve painless improvements with roughly unchanged inference costs. In response to task interference, our MoME specializes in both vision and language modality to adapt to task discrepancies. Extensive experiments show that MoME significantly improves the performance of generalist MLLMs across various VL tasks.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Optimus-1: Hybrid Multimodal Memory Empowered Agents Excel in Long-Horizon Tasks

Zaijing Li
Yuquan Xie
Rui Shao
Gongwei Chen
Dongmei Jiang
Liqiang Nie

Building a general-purpose agent is a long-standing vision in the field of artificial intelligence. Existing agents have made remarkable progress in many domains, yet they still struggle to complete long-horizon tasks in an open world. We attribute this to the lack of necessary world knowledge and multimodal experience that can guide agents through a variety of long-horizon tasks. In this paper, we propose a Hybrid Multimodal Memory module to address the above challenges. It 1) transforms knowledge into Hierarchical Directed Knowledge Graph that allows agents to explicitly represent and learn world knowledge, and 2) summarises historical information into Abstracted Multimodal Experience Pool that provide agents with rich references for in-context learning. On top of the Hybrid Multimodal Memory module, a multimodal agent, Optimus-1, is constructed with dedicated Knowledge-guided Planner and Experience-Driven Reflector, contributing to a better planning and reflection in the face of long-horizon tasks in Minecraft. Extensive experimental results show that Optimus-1 significantly outperforms all existing agents on challenging long-horizon task benchmarks, and exhibits near human-level performance on many tasks. In addition, we introduce various Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) as the backbone of Optimus-1. Experimental results show that Optimus-1 exhibits strong generalization with the help of the Hybrid Multimodal Memory module, outperforming the GPT-4V baseline on many tasks.

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NeurIPS Conference 2021 Conference Paper

See More for Scene: Pairwise Consistency Learning for Scene Classification

Gongwei Chen
Xinhang Song
Bohan Wang
Shuqiang Jiang

Scene classification is a valuable classification subtask and has its own characteristics which still needs more in-depth studies. Basically, scene characteristics are distributed over the whole image, which cause the need of “seeing” comprehensive and informative regions. Previous works mainly focus on region discovery and aggregation, while rarely involves the inherent properties of CNN along with its potential ability to satisfy the requirements of scene classification. In this paper, we propose to understand scene images and the scene classification CNN models in terms of the focus area. From this new perspective, we find that large focus area is preferred in scene classification CNN models as a consequence of learning scene characteristics. Meanwhile, the analysis about existing training schemes helps us to understand the effects of focus area, and also raises the question about optimal training method for scene classification. Pursuing the better usage of scene characteristics, we propose a new learning scheme with a tailored loss in the goal of activating larger focus area on scene images. Since the supervision of the target regions to be enlarged is usually lacked, our alternative learning scheme is to erase already activated area, and allow the CNN models to activate more area during training. The proposed scheme is implemented by keeping the pairwise consistency between the output of the erased image and its original one. In particular, a tailored loss is proposed to keep such pairwise consistency by leveraging category-relevance information. Experiments on Places365 show the significant improvements of our method with various CNNs. Our method shows an inferior result on the object-centric dataset, ImageNet, which experimentally indicates that it captures the unique characteristics of scenes.

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