Tianyue Ou


2025

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AgentDiagnose: An Open Toolkit for Diagnosing LLM Agent Trajectories
Tianyue Ou | Wanyao Guo | Apurva Gandhi | Graham Neubig | Xiang Yue
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

Large Language Model (LLM) agents produce rich, multi-step trajectories that interleave observations, internal reasoning, and tool actions. However, most evaluation pipelines focus solely on end-task success, leaving the agent’s decision-making process opaque and poorly understood. We introduce AgentDiagnose, an open-source, modular framework for diagnosing agent trajectories. The present release fully supports the web domain, and AgentDiagnose is architect as an extensible, open platform with compatibility for most agent trajectories. AgentDiagnose consists of (i) an evaluation module that quantifies five core agentic competencies—backtracking & exploration, task decomposition, observation reading, self-verification, and objective quality—and (ii) a visualization module that highlights trajectory semantics through t-SNE action embeddings, interactive word clouds, and state-transition timelines. On a set of 30 manually annotated trajectories, our automatic metrics achieve a mean Pearson correlation of 0.57 with human judgments, rising to 0.78 for task decomposition. Furthermore, filtering the 46k-example NNetNav-Live dataset with AgentDiagnose and fine-tuning a Llama-3.1-8B model on the top 6k trajectories improves WebArena success rates by 0.98, despite using only 13% of the original data. AgentDiagnose thus serves as both a diagnostic lens for agent analysis and a practical tool for curating higher-quality training data. The toolkit and demo are publicly available.

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Toward Global AI Inclusivity: A Large-Scale Multilingual Terminology Dataset (GIST)
Jiarui Liu | Iman Ouzzani | Wenkai Li | Lechen Zhang | Tianyue Ou | Houda Bouamor | Zhijing Jin | Mona T. Diab
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025

The field of machine translation has achieved significant advancements, yet domain-specific terminology translation, particularly in AI, remains challenging. This work introduces GIST, a large-scale multilingual AI terminology dataset containing 5K terms extracted from top AI conference papers spanning 2000 to 2023. The terms were translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, and Russian using a hybrid framework that combines LLMs for extraction with human expertise for translation. The dataset’s quality was benchmarked against existing resources, demonstrating superior translation accuracy through crowdsourced evaluation. GIST was integrated into translation workflows using post-translation refinement methods that required no retraining, where LLM prompting consistently improved BLEU and COMET scores. A web demonstration on the ACL Anthology platform highlights its practical application, showcasing improved accessibility for non-English speakers. We address a critical gap in AI terminology resources and fosters global inclusivity and collaboration in AI research.

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CowPilot: A Framework for Autonomous and Human-Agent Collaborative Web Navigation
Faria Huq | Zora Zhiruo Wang | Frank F. Xu | Tianyue Ou | Shuyan Zhou | Jeffrey P. Bigham | Graham Neubig
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (System Demonstrations)

While much work on web agents emphasizes the promise of autonomously performing tasks on behalf of users, in reality, agents often fallshort on complex tasks in real-world contexts and modeling user preference. This presents an opportunity for humans to collaborate with the agent and leverage the agent’s capabilities effectively. We propose CowPilot, a frame- work supporting autonomous as well as human-agent co llaborative w eb navigation, and evaluation across task success and task efficiency. CowPilot reduces the number of steps humans need to perform by allowing agents to propose next steps, while users are able to pause, reject, or take alternative actions. During execution, users can interleave their actions with the agent’s by overriding suggestions or resuming agent control when needed. We conducted case studies on five common websites and found that the human-agent collaborative mode achieves the highest success rate of 95% while requiring humans to perform only 15.2% of the total steps. Even with human interventions during task execution, the agent successfully drives up to half of task success on its own. CowPilot can serve as a useful tool for data collection and agent evaluation across websites, which we believe will enable research in how users and agents can work together. Video demonstrations are available at https://oaishi.github.io/cowpilot.html