Papers by Haiwei Wang
Don’t Act Blindly: Robust GUI Automation via Action-Effect Verification and Self-Correction (2026.acl-long)
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Yuzhe Zhang, Xianwei Xue, Xingyong Wu, Mengke Chen, Chen Liu, Xinran He, Run Shao, Feiran Liu, Huanmin Xu, Qiutong Pan, Haiwei Wang
| Challenge: | Existing GUI agents assume deterministic environment responses, generating actions without verifying whether previous operations succeeded. |
| Approach: | They propose a GUI agent that explicitly models action outcomes and recovery under noisy environments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed agent reduces failure loops and improves recovery success in noisy environments while maintaining competitive standard task performance. |
Graph-Based Chain-of-Thought Pruning for Reducing Redundant Reflections in Reasoning LLMs (2026.findings-acl)
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Hongyuan Yuan, Xinran He, Run Shao, Bolei He, Xianwei Xue, Mengke Chen, Qiutong Pan, Haiwei Wang, Haifeng Li
| Challenge: | Extending CoT through RL can induce undesirable thinking patterns such as overthinking . prior work has focused on inefficient reflection, which manifests in two problematic patterns: Indiscriminate Reflection and Repetitive Reflectione . |
| Approach: | They propose a graph-based approach to optimize CoT by pruning each linear CoT into a directed acyclic graph with explicit dependency edges. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach reduces the average reasoning tokens by 42% while maintaining or improving accuracy. |