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2026
ClawBench: Can AI Agents Complete Everyday Online Tasks?
Yuxuan Zhang | Yubo Wang | Yipeng Zhu | Penghui Du | Junwen Miao | Xuan Lu | Zhuofeng Li | Xingwei Qu | Zhengkang Guo | Yuanzhe Shen | Dingjie Song | Han Zhou | Tuney Zheng | Xian Wu | Hao Yu | Songcheng Cai | Yi Lu | Yunzhuo Hao | Minyi Lei | Liang Chen | Kai Zou | Huifeng Yin | Wendong XU | Dongfu Jiang | Ping Nie | Jiaheng Liu | Wenhu Chen | Kelsey R Allen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Yuxuan Zhang | Yubo Wang | Yipeng Zhu | Penghui Du | Junwen Miao | Xuan Lu | Zhuofeng Li | Xingwei Qu | Zhengkang Guo | Yuanzhe Shen | Dingjie Song | Han Zhou | Tuney Zheng | Xian Wu | Hao Yu | Songcheng Cai | Yi Lu | Yunzhuo Hao | Minyi Lei | Liang Chen | Kai Zou | Huifeng Yin | Wendong XU | Dongfu Jiang | Ping Nie | Jiaheng Liu | Wenhu Chen | Kelsey R Allen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
AI agents may assist with emails and documents, but can they reliably complete everyday online workflows on real websites? Everyday online tasks offer a realistic yet unsolved testbed for evaluating next-generation AI agents. To this end, we introduce ClawBench, an evaluation framework comprising 153 everyday online tasks common in daily life and work, spanning 144 platforms across 15 categories, from completing purchases and booking appointments to submitting job applications. These tasks require capabilities beyond existing benchmarks, such as obtaining relevant information from user-provided documents, navigating multi-step workflows across diverse platforms, and write-heavy operations like filling in many detailed forms correctly. Unlike existing benchmarks that evaluate agents in offline sandboxes with static pages, ClawBench operates on production websites, preserving the full complexity, dynamic nature, and interaction challenges of real-world web environments. An interception layer captures and blocks the final submission request, ensuring safe evaluation without real-world side effects. Our evaluations of 8 frontier models show that both proprietary and open-source models complete only a small portion of these tasks. For example, Claude Sonnet 4.6 achieves only 33.3%, which exposes gaps in current AI agents. Progress on ClawBench brings us closer to AI agents that can function as general-purpose assistants.
SWE-QA-Pro: A Representative Benchmark and Scalable Training Recipe for Repository-Level Code Understanding
Songcheng Cai | Zhiheng Lyu | Yuansheng Ni | Xiangchao Chen | Baichuan Zhou | Shenzhe Zhu | Yi Lu | Haozhe Wang | Chi Ruan | Benjamin Schneider | Weixu Zhang | Xiang Li | Andy Zheng | Yuyu Zhang | Ping Nie | Wenhu Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Songcheng Cai | Zhiheng Lyu | Yuansheng Ni | Xiangchao Chen | Baichuan Zhou | Shenzhe Zhu | Yi Lu | Haozhe Wang | Chi Ruan | Benjamin Schneider | Weixu Zhang | Xiang Li | Andy Zheng | Yuyu Zhang | Ping Nie | Wenhu Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Agentic repository-level code understanding is essential for automating complex software engineering tasks, yet the field lacks reliable benchmarks. Existing evaluations often overlook the long tail topics and rely on popular repositories where Large Language Models (LLMs) can cheat via memorized knowledge. To address this, we introduce SWE-QA-Pro, a benchmark constructed from diverse, long-tail repositories with executable environments. We enforce topical balance via issue-driven clustering to cover under-represented task types and apply a rigorous difficulty calibration process: questions solvable by direct-answer baselines are filtered out. This results in a dataset where agentic workflows significantly outperform direct answering (e.g., a ~13-point gap for Claude Sonnet 4.5), confirming the necessity of agentic codebase exploration. Furthermore, to tackle the scarcity of training data for such complex behaviors, we propose a scalable synthetic data pipeline that powers a two-stage training recipe: Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) followed by Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF). This approach allows small open models to learn efficient tool usage and reasoning. Empirically, a Qwen3-8B model trained with our recipe surpasses GPT-4o by 2.3 points on SWE-QA-Pro and substantially narrows the gap to state-of-the-art proprietary models, demonstrating both the validity of our evaluation and the effectiveness of our agentic training workflow.
ReviewGrounder: Improving Review Substantiveness with Rubric-Guided, Tool-Integrated Agents
Zhuofeng Li | Yi Lu | Dongfu Jiang | Haoxiang Zhang | Yuyang Bai | Chuan Li | Yu Wang | Shuiwang Ji | Jianwen Xie | Yu Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zhuofeng Li | Yi Lu | Dongfu Jiang | Haoxiang Zhang | Yuyang Bai | Chuan Li | Yu Wang | Shuiwang Ji | Jianwen Xie | Yu Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
The rapid rise in AI conference submissions has driven increasing exploration of large language models (LLMs) for peer review support. However, LLM-based reviewers often generate superficial, formulaic comments lacking substantive, evidence-grounded feedback. We attribute this to the underutilization of two key components of human reviewing: explicit rubrics and contextual grounding in existing work. To address this, we introduce ReviewBench, a benchmark evaluating review text according to paper-specific rubrics derived from official guidelines, the paper’s content, and human-written reviews. We further propose ReviewGrounder, a rubric-guided, tool-integrated multi-agent framework that decomposes reviewing into drafting and grounding stages, enriching shallow drafts via targeted evidence consolidation. Experiments on ReviewBench show that ReviewGrounder, using a Phi-4-14B-based drafter and a GPT-OSS-120B-based grounding stage, consistently outperforms baselines with substantially stronger/larger backbones (e.g., GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-R1-670B) in both alignment with human judgments and rubric-based review quality across 8 dimensions. The code is available at https://github.com/EigenTom/ReviewGrounder.
2025
RSVP: Reasoning Segmentation via Visual Prompting and Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought
Yi Lu | Jiawang Cao | Yongliang Wu | Bozheng Li | Licheng Tang | Yangguang Ji | Chong Wu | Jay Wu | Wenbo Zhu
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yi Lu | Jiawang Cao | Yongliang Wu | Bozheng Li | Licheng Tang | Yangguang Ji | Chong Wu | Jay Wu | Wenbo Zhu
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capability while lack explicit mechanisms for visual grounding and segmentation, creating a gap between cognitive reasoning and visual perception. To bridge this gap, we introduce Reasoning Segmentation via Visual Prompting (RSVP), a novel framework that unifies multi-step multimodal reasoning with grounded visual understanding. RSVP is a two-stage structuralized framework that integrates reasoning-driven localization with segmentation refinement. In the reasoning stage, RSVP employs multimodal chain-of-thought visual prompts to help MLLMs understand queries and infer targets, generating interpretable region proposals that enhance visual grounding. In segmentation stage, RSVP refines these proposals with a Vision-Language Segmentation Module (VLSM), seamlessly integrates textual and visual cues to produce precise segmentation masks. By explicitly modelling the interaction between multimodal reasoning and segmentation, RSVP introduces a new paradigm for interpretable reasoning segmentation. It exploits MLLMs’ inherent localization capabilities, enabling the models to not only reason about objects but also generate structured visual representations. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that RSVP achieves state-of-the-art performance, surpasses state-of-the-art methods by up to +6.5 gIoU and +9.2 cIoU on ReasonSeg, and achieves 49.7 mAP on SegInW under zero-shot settings. These results validate RSVP as an effective and scalable framework for integrating cognitive reasoning with structured visual understanding.
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- Liang Chen 1
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- Yuansheng Ni 1
- Xingwei Qu 1
- Chi Ruan 1
- Benjamin Schneider 1
- Yuanzhe Shen 1
- Dingjie Song 1
- Licheng Tang 1
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- Yu Wang 1
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- Chong Wu 1
- Jay Wu 1
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- Andy Zheng 1
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- Han Zhou 1
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