Yuan Xie
2026
Auto-Stega: An Agent-Driven System for Lifelong Strategy Evolution in LLM-Based Text Steganography
Jiuan Zhou | Yu Cheng | Yuan Xie | Zhaoxia Yin
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Jiuan Zhou | Yu Cheng | Yuan Xie | Zhaoxia Yin
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
With the rapid progress of LLMs, high quality generative text has become widely available as a cover for text steganography. However, prevailing methods rely on hand-crafted or pre-specified strategies and struggle to balance efficiency, imperceptibility, and security, particularly at high embedding rates. Accordingly, we propose Auto-Stega, an agent-driven self-evolving framework that is the first to realize self-evolving steganographic strategies by automatically discovering, composing, and adapting strategies at inference time; the framework operates as a closed loop of generating, evaluating, summarizing, and updating that continually curates a structured strategy library and adapts across corpora, styles, and task constraints. A decoding LLM recovers the information under the shared strategy. To handle high embedding rates, we introduce PC-DNTE, a plug-and-play algorithm that maintains alignment with the base model’s conditional distribution at high embedding rates, preserving imperceptibility while enhancing security. Experimental results demonstrate that at higher embedding rates Auto-Stega achieves superior performance with gains of 42.2% in perplexity and 1.6% in anti-steganalysis performance over SOTA methods.
NaviMaster: Learning a Unified Policy for GUI and Embodied Navigation Tasks
Zhihao Luo | Wentao Yan | Jingyu Gong | Min Wang | Zhizhong Zhang | Xuhong Wang | Yuan Xie | Xin Tan
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zhihao Luo | Wentao Yan | Jingyu Gong | Min Wang | Zhizhong Zhang | Xuhong Wang | Yuan Xie | Xin Tan
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Recent advances in Graphical User Interface (GUI) and embodied navigation have driven progress, yet these domains have largely evolved in isolation, with disparate datasets and training paradigms. In this paper, we observe that both tasks can be formulated as Markov Decision Processes (MDP), suggesting a foundational principle for their unification. Hence, we present NaviMaster, the first unified agent capable of unifying GUI navigation and embodied navigation within a single framework. Specifically, NaviMaster (i) proposes a visual-target trajectory collection pipeline that generates trajectories for both GUI and embodied tasks using a single formulation. (ii) employs a unified reinforcement learning framework on the mix data to improve generalization. (iii) designs a novel distance-aware reward to ensure efficient learning from the trajectories. Through extensive experiments on out-of-domain benchmarks, NaviMaster is shown to outperform state-of-the-art agents in GUI navigation, spatial affordance prediction, and embodied navigation. Ablation studies further demonstrate the efficacy of our unified training strategy, data mixing strategy, and reward design. Resources will be released to the community.