Xiaojun Ma
Author directory2026
GUI-360° : A Comprehensive Dataset and Benchmark for Desktop Productivity Computer-Using Agents
Jian Mu | Chaoyun Zhang | Chiming Ni | Lu Wang | Bo Qiao | Kartik Mathur | Qianhui Wu | Yuhang Xie | Xiaojun Ma | Mengyu Zhou | Si Qin | Liqun Li | Yu Kang | Minghua Ma | Qingwei Lin | Saravan Rajmohan | Dongmei Zhang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Jian Mu | Chaoyun Zhang | Chiming Ni | Lu Wang | Bo Qiao | Kartik Mathur | Qianhui Wu | Yuhang Xie | Xiaojun Ma | Mengyu Zhou | Si Qin | Liqun Li | Yu Kang | Minghua Ma | Qingwei Lin | Saravan Rajmohan | Dongmei Zhang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
We introduce GUI-360°, a large-scale dataset and benchmark suite for desktop productivity computer-using agents (CUAs). GUI-360° provides an automated pipeline for query sourcing, template-based environment construction, task instantiation, batched execution, and LLM-assisted quality filtering in Windows office applications. The corpus contains 131K validated successful action steps across 17K trajectories for training and evaluation, together with 1.09M failed execution steps for failure analysis and future recovery training. Each step provides screenshots, accessibility metadata, instantiated goals, reasoning traces, and structured GUI/API actions. GUI-360° supports GUI grounding, screen parsing, and action prediction under a hybrid GUI+API action space. Experiments show that current vision–language models struggle with fine-grained grounding and stepwise action prediction, while supervised fine-tuning on GUI-360° brings consistent in-domain and external benchmark gains. Our code and dataset are available at https://github.com/2020-qqtcg/GUI-360 and https://huggingface.co/datasets/vyokky/GUI-360.
Not All Tokens Matter: Towards Efficient LLM Reasoning via Token Significance in Reinforcement Learning
Hanbing Liu | Lang Cao | Yuanyi Ren | Mengyu Zhou | Haoyu Dong | Xiaojun Ma | Shi Han | Dongmei Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Hanbing Liu | Lang Cao | Yuanyi Ren | Mengyu Zhou | Haoyu Dong | Xiaojun Ma | Shi Han | Dongmei Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large language models (LLMs) show strong reasoning abilities but often produce unnecessarily long explanations that reduce efficiency. Although reinforcement learning (RL) has been used to improve reasoning, most methods focus on accuracy and rely on uniform length-based rewards that overlook the differing contributions of individual tokens, often harming correctness. We revisit length optimization in RL through the perspective of token significance. Observing that many chain-of-thought (CoT) tokens contribute little to the final answer, we introduce a significance-aware length reward that selectively penalizes insignificance tokens, reducing redundancy while preserving essential reasoning. We also propose a dynamic length reward that encourages more detailed reasoning early in training and gradually shifts toward conciseness as learning progresses. Integrating these components into standard policy optimization yields a framework that improves both reasoning efficiency and accuracy. Experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate substantial reductions in response length while preserving or improving correctness, highlighting the importance of modeling token significance for efficient LLM reasoning.
2025
Large Language Models for Predictive Analysis: How Far Are They?
Qin Chen | Yuanyi Ren | Xiaojun Ma | Yuyang Shi
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Qin Chen | Yuanyi Ren | Xiaojun Ma | Yuyang Shi
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Predictive analysis is a cornerstone of modern decision-making, with applications in various domains. Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools in enabling nuanced, knowledge-intensive conversations, thus aiding in complex decision-making tasks. With the burgeoning expectation to harness LLMs for predictive analysis, there is an urgent need to systematically assess their capability in this domain. However, there are no relevant evaluations in existing studies. To bridge this gap, we introduce the PredictiQ benchmark, which integrates 1130 sophisticated predictive analysis queries originating from 44 real-world datasets of 8 diverse fields. We design an evaluation protocol considering text analysis, code generation, and their alignment. Twelve renowned LLMs are evaluated, offering insights into their practical use in predictive analysis.
SheetDesigner: MLLM-Powered Spreadsheet Layout Generation with Rule-Based and Vision-Based Reflection
Qin Chen | Yuanyi Ren | Xiaojun Ma | Mugeng Liu | Shi Han | Dongmei Zhang
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Qin Chen | Yuanyi Ren | Xiaojun Ma | Mugeng Liu | Shi Han | Dongmei Zhang
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Spreadsheets are critical to data-centric tasks, with rich, structured layouts that enable efficient information transmission. Given the time and expertise required for manual spreadsheet layout design, there is an urgent need for automated solutions.However, existing automated layout models are ill-suited to spreadsheets, as they often (1) treat components as axis-aligned rectangles with continuous coordinates, overlooking the inherently discrete, grid-based structure of spreadsheets; and (2) neglect interrelated semantics, such as data dependencies and contextual links, unique to spreadsheets. In this paper, we first formalize the spreadsheet layout generation task, supported by a seven-criterion evaluation protocol and a dataset of 3,326 spreadsheets. We then introduce SheetDesigner, a zero-shot and training-free framework using Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) that combines rule and vision reflection for component placement and content population. SheetDesigner outperforms five baselines by at least 22.6%. We further find that through vision modality, MLLMs handle overlap and balance well but struggle with alignment, necessitates hybrid rule and visual reflection strategies. Our codes and data is available at Github.