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OSWorld-Human: Benchmarking the Efficiency of Computer-Use Agents

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Generative AI is being leveraged to solve a variety of computer-use tasks involving desktop applications. State-of-the-art systems have focused solely on improving accuracy on leading benchmarks. However, these systems are practically unusable due to extremely high end-to-end latency (e.g., tens of minutes) for tasks that typically take humans just a few minutes to complete. To understand the cause behind this and to guide future developments of computer agents, we conduct the first study on the temporal performance of computer-use agents on OSWorld, the flagship benchmark in computer-use AI. We find that large model calls for planning, reflection, and judging account for most of the overall latency, and as an agent uses more steps to complete a task, each successive step can take 3x longer than steps at the beginning of a task. We then construct OSWorld Human, a manually annotated version of the original OSWorld dataset that contains a human-determined trajectory for each task. We evaluate 16 agents on their efficiency using OSWorld Human and found that even the best agents take 2.7-4.3x more steps than necessary.

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PANDO: Efficient Multimodal AI Agents via Online Skill Distillation

cs.AI · 2026-05-24 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

PANDO introduces an online skill-distillation method with a structured library, reflection, demotion, routing, compression, and cache-aware prompting that reaches 58.3% success on 910 VisualWebArena tasks using 58-61% fewer tokens than prior methods.

SkillDroid: Compile Once, Reuse Forever

cs.HC · 2026-04-16 · conditional · novelty 6.0

SkillDroid compiles LLM-guided GUI trajectories into parameterized skill templates and replays them via a matching cascade, reaching 85.3% success rate with 49% fewer LLM calls and improving from 87% to 91% over 150 rounds while the stateless baseline drops to 44%.

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