Publications

Papers, technical reports, and team releases.

Explore my work across agent interfaces, computer use, training, and real-environment evaluation, with links to papers, project pages, code, models, and datasets.

Findings of EMNLP 2026 (Accepted) First Author 2026

ASIL: Replacing Screenshot-and-Click with Structured State and Semantic Actions

Rui Xie, Lu Chen

An agent-native interface that replaces screenshot-and-click control with structured software state and code-executable semantic actions, reaching 81.6 on GPT-5.4 under a 15-action budget versus 6.6 for screenshot GUI control under 50 steps.

arXiv Technical Report, 2026 Core Contributor 2026

Qwen-CUA: Native Computer Use for (almost) Everything

Dunjie Lu, Shuai Bai, Tianyi Bai, …, Rui Xie, …, Fan Zhou

A technical report presenting a native computer-use agent that operates software from screenshots through keyboard and mouse actions, supported by large-scale verifiable tasks and interactive rollouts.

arXiv Technical Report, 2026 Contributing Author 2026

RecreationWorld: Scalable and Verifiable Environments for Hybrid Computer-Use Agents

Shuai Bai, Jiayong Deng, Sicheng Fan, …, Rui Xie, …, Bowen Zhou

A framework for training and evaluating hybrid agents that explore interfaces, write code, and verify running applications across Ubuntu, macOS, Windows, Android, and Web, with 250 held-out RecreationBench tasks.

Qwen Release Announcement, 2026 Team Contributor 2026

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

Qwen Team

The Qwen team's August 2026 flagship model release, advancing autonomous coding, professional workflows, long-horizon planning, and native multimodal agent capabilities with a 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE model.

ECCV 2026 (Accepted) First Author 2026

GUIDE: Resolving Domain Bias in GUI Agents through Real-Time Web Video Retrieval and Plug-and-Play Annotation

Rui Xie, Zhi Gao, Chenrui Shi, Zirui Shang, Lu Chen, Qing Li

A training-free, plug-and-play framework that retrieves task-relevant tutorial videos and distills transferable planning and grounding knowledge for domain-specific GUI agents, improving OSWorld average score by 4.47 to 7.48 percentage points without modifying agent parameters.

arXiv Preprint, 2026 Co-first Author 2026

MatToolBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents in Real-World Materials Science Workflows

Mei Wu, Rui Xie, Runyu Zhang, Yuqiang Li, Tianfan Fu, Bo Chen, Kai Yu, Xin Chen, Lu Chen

A real-environment benchmark with 204 tasks across 10 materials science tools, covering GUI operation, OriginPro scripting, and database queries, with expert-defined partial-credit scoring.

AAAI 2026 Contributing Author 2026

TongUI: Internet-Scale Trajectories from Multimodal Web Tutorials for Generalized GUI Agents

Bofei Zhang, Zirui Shang, Zhi Gao, Wang Zhang, Rui Xie, Xiaojian Ma, Tao Yuan, Xinxiao Wu, Song-Chun Zhu, Qing Li

A framework that transforms multimodal web tutorials into GUI-Net-1M, a dataset of one million trajectories across five operating systems and over 280 applications, supporting generalized GUI-agent training and evaluation.

arXiv Preprint, 2023 Third Author 2023

Mobile-Env: Building Qualified Evaluation Benchmarks for LLM-GUI Interaction

Danyang Zhang, Zhennan Shen, Rui Xie, Situo Zhang, Tianbao Xie, Zihan Zhao, Siyuan Chen, Lu Chen, Hongshen Xu, Ruisheng Cao, Kai Yu

A benchmark effort for evaluating LLM-based GUI interaction in mobile environments with isolated tasks, simulator support, and behavior analysis.