Pengxiang Li
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2026
Bridging Modality Disconnect in Self-Reflection via Closed-Loop Visually Grounded Verification
Haoyu Zhang | Zhi Gao | Pengxiang Li | Xintong Zhang | Yuwei Wu | Rui Gao | Mingyang Gao | Xuanyan Chen | Anqian Cen | Che Sun | Yunde Jia
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Haoyu Zhang | Zhi Gao | Pengxiang Li | Xintong Zhang | Yuwei Wu | Rui Gao | Mingyang Gao | Xuanyan Chen | Anqian Cen | Che Sun | Yunde Jia
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Self-reflection has become a key mechanism for improving reasoning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), yet this corrective mechanism often fails when resolving complex fine-grained visual ambiguities. This performance degradation stems from the issue of modality disconnect in self-reflection: most existing models execute self-reflection either within textual or latent space, lacking an explicit mechanism to align textual reasoning with visual evidence. In this paper, we propose MIRROR, a closed-loop visual reflection framework comprising four steps: response generation, error identification, region-based visual verification, and revision. In this cycle, the model first generates an initial response, identifies uncertain logical statements in the response that require visual verification, then grounds them in relevant image regions, and finally revises based on the visual evidence. We construct a multi-turn visual reflection dataset ReflectV, which empowers the model with such a reflective capability. Extensive experiments across diverse multimodal benchmarks show that MIRROR improves performance and reduces visual hallucinations by an average of about 7.2%, demonstrating the advantage of transforming self-reflection from open-loop textual revision into closed-loop, visually grounded verification.
Fully Decoupled Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Data Curation for GUI Agents
Pengxiang Li | Zechenhu | Zirui Shang | Jingrong Wu | Yang Liu | Hui Liu | Zhi Gao | Chenrui Shi | Bofei Zhang | Zihao Zhang | Xiaochuan Shi | Zedong YU | Yuwei Wu | Xinxiao Wu | Yunde Jia | Liuyu Xiang | Zhaofeng He | Qing Li
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Pengxiang Li | Zechenhu | Zirui Shang | Jingrong Wu | Yang Liu | Hui Liu | Zhi Gao | Chenrui Shi | Bofei Zhang | Zihao Zhang | Xiaochuan Shi | Zedong YU | Yuwei Wu | Xinxiao Wu | Yunde Jia | Liuyu Xiang | Zhaofeng He | Qing Li
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have catalyzed the development of Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents for desktop automation. However, reinforcement learning (RL) for GUI agents remains bottlenecked by two challenges: existing RL frameworks still leave substantial idle time inside the rollout stage, and the learning signal from long-horizon, sparse-reward interactions is highly imbalanced. In this paper, we introduce DART, a fully Decoupled Agentic RL Training framework for GUI agents. Whereas prior RL designs only separate the trainer from the rollout, DART splits the pipeline into four independent modules: environment cluster, rollout service, data manager, and trainer, which brings two extra efficiency benefits: rollout-wise trajectory scheduling and per-worker model synchronization. This yields a 1.6× increase in GPU utilization, a 1.9× boost in training throughput, and a 5.5× increase in environment utilization over a non-decoupled baseline. We further propose a multi-level adaptive data curation scheme operating at the task, trajectory, step, and token levels: it reallocates rollout budget by task difficulty, bootstraps hard tasks with a pre-collected experience pool, restricts policy updates to high-entropy critical steps, and applies truncated importance sampling to absorb the distribution gap between th rollout and training engines. On the OSWorld benchmark, our DART-GUI-7B achieves a 42.13 task success rate, a 14.61 absolute improvement over its base model and a new state of the art among open-source 7B-scale agents. Code, data, and model checkpoints are open-sourced at https://dart-gui-anonymous.github.io (anonymous).