Run Shao
2026
Don’t Act Blindly: Robust GUI Automation via Action-Effect Verification and Self-Correction
Yuzhe Zhang | Xianwei Xue | Xingyong Wu | Mengke Chen | Chen Liu | Xinran He | Run Shao | Feiran Liu | Huanmin Xu | Qiutong Pan | Haiwei Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yuzhe Zhang | Xianwei Xue | Xingyong Wu | Mengke Chen | Chen Liu | Xinran He | Run Shao | Feiran Liu | Huanmin Xu | Qiutong Pan | Haiwei Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Autonomous GUI agents based on vision-language models (VLMs) often assume deterministic environment responses, generating actions without verifying whether previous operations succeeded. In real-world settings with network latency, rendering delays, and system interruptions, this assumption leads to undetected action failures, repetitive ineffective behaviors, and catastrophic error accumulation. Moreover, learning robust recovery strategies is challenging due to the high cost of online interaction and the lack of real-time feedback in offline datasets.We propose VeriGUI (Verification-driven GUI Agent), which explicitly models action outcomes and recovery under noisy environments. VeriGUI introduces a Thinking–Verification–Action–Expectation (TVAE) framework to detect failures and guide corrective reasoning, and a two-stage training pipeline that combines Robust SFT with synthetic failure trajectories and GRPO with asymmetric verification rewards. We further construct a Robustness Benchmark based on AndroidControl to evaluate failure recognition and correction. Experiments show that VeriGUI significantly reduces failure loops and improves recovery success while maintaining competitive standard task performance.
2025
Select to Know: An Internal-External Knowledge Self-Selection Framework for Domain-Specific Question Answering
Bolei He | Xinran He | Run Shao | Shanfu Shu | Xianwei Xue | MingQuan Cheng | Haifeng Li | Zhen-Hua Ling
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Bolei He | Xinran He | Run Shao | Shanfu Shu | Xianwei Xue | MingQuan Cheng | Haifeng Li | Zhen-Hua Ling
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well in general QA but often struggle in domain-specific scenarios. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) introduces external knowledge but suffers from hallucinations and latency due to noisy retrievals. Continued pretraining internalizes domain knowledge but is costly and lacks cross-domain flexibility. We attribute this challenge to the long-tail distribution of domain knowledge, which leaves partial yet useful internal knowledge underutilized. We further argue that knowledge acquisition should be progressive, mirroring human learning: first understanding concepts, then applying them to complex reasoning. To address this, we propose Selct2Know (S2K), a cost-effective framework that internalizes domain knowledge through an internal-external knowledge self-selection strategy and selective supervised fine-tuning. We also introduce a structured reasoning data generation pipeline and integrate GRPO to enhance reasoning ability. Experiments on medical, legal, and financial QA benchmarks show that S2K consistently outperforms existing methods and matches domain-pretrained LLMs with significantly lower cost.