Situo Zhang
Author directory2026
No Action Without a NOD: A Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Architecture for Reliable Service Agents
Zixu Yang | Hang Zheng | Nan Jiang | Zhiyang Tang | Situo Zhang | Xiaobao Wu | Lu Chen | Kai Yu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Zixu Yang | Hang Zheng | Nan Jiang | Zhiyang Tang | Situo Zhang | Xiaobao Wu | Lu Chen | Kai Yu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Large language model (LLM) agents have increasingly advanced service applications, such as booking flight tickets. However, these service agents suffer from unreliability in long-horizon tasks, as they often produce policy violations, tool hallucinations, and misaligned actions, which greatly impedes their real-world deployment. To address these challenges, we propose NOD (Navigator-Operator-Director), a heterogeneous multi-agent architecture for service agents. Instead of maintaining task state implicitly in dialogue context as in prior work, we externalize a structured Global State to enable explicit task state tracking and consistent decision-making by the Navigator. Besides, we introduce selective external oversight before critical actions, allowing an independent Director agent to verify execution and intervene when necessary. As such, NOD effectively mitigates error propagation and unsafe behavior in long-horizon tasks. Experiments on τ²-Bench demonstrate that our NOD achieves higher success rates and critical action precision over baselines. More importantly, NOD improves the reliability of service agents by reducing policy violations, tool hallucinations, and user-intent misalignment.
2025
MobA: Multifaceted Memory-Enhanced Adaptive Planning for Efficient Mobile Task Automation
Zichen Zhu | Hao Tang | Yansi Li | Dingye Liu | Hongshen Xu | Kunyao Lan | Danyang Zhang | Yixuan Jiang | Hao Zhou | Chenrun Wang | Situo Zhang | Liangtai Sun | Yixiao Wang | Yuheng Sun | Lu Chen | Kai Yu
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (System Demonstrations)
Zichen Zhu | Hao Tang | Yansi Li | Dingye Liu | Hongshen Xu | Kunyao Lan | Danyang Zhang | Yixuan Jiang | Hao Zhou | Chenrun Wang | Situo Zhang | Liangtai Sun | Yixiao Wang | Yuheng Sun | Lu Chen | Kai Yu
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (System Demonstrations)
Existing Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)-based agents face significant challenges in handling complex GUI (Graphical User Interface) interactions on devices. These challenges arise from the dynamic and structured nature of GUI environments, which integrate text, images, and spatial relationships, as well as the variability in action spaces across different pages and tasks. To address these limitations, we propose MobA, a novel MLLM-based mobile assistant system. MobA introduces an adaptive planning module that incorporates a reflection mechanism for error recovery and dynamically adjusts plans to align with the real environment contexts and action module’s execution capacity. Additionally, a multifaceted memory module provides comprehensive memory support to enhance adaptability and efficiency. We also present MobBench, a dataset designed for complex mobile interactions. Experimental results on MobBench and AndroidArena demonstrate MobA’s ability to handle dynamic GUI environments and perform complex mobile tasks.