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preprint2026arXiv

Beyond Binary: Reframing GUI Critique as Continuous Semantic Alignment

Test-Time Scaling (TTS), which samples multiple candidate actions and ranks them via a Critic Model, has emerged as a promising paradigm for generalist GUI agents. Its efficacy thus hinges on the critic's fine-grained ranking ability. However, existing GUI critic models uniformly adopt binary classification. Our motivational analysis of these models exposes a severe entanglement: scores for valid actions and plausible-but-invalid distractors become indistinguishable. We attribute this failure to two structural defects: Affordance Collapse--the hierarchical affordance space is compressed into 0/1 labels; and Noise Sensitivity--binary objectives overfit to noisy decision boundaries. To resolve this, we introduce BBCritic (Beyond-Binary Critic), a paradigm shift grounded in the Functional Equivalence Hypothesis. Through two-stage contrastive learning, BBCritic aligns instructions and actions in a shared Affordance Space, recovering the hierarchical structure that binary supervision flattens. We also present BBBench (Beyond-Binary Bench), the first GUI critic benchmark that pairs a dense action space with a hierarchical four-level taxonomy, enabling fine-grained ranking evaluation. Experimental results show that BBCritic-3B, trained without any extra annotation, outperforms 7B-parameter SOTA binary models. It demonstrates strong zero-shot transferability across platforms and tasks, supporting our methodological view: GUI critique is fundamentally a metric-learning problem, not a classification one.

preprint2026arXiv

HTPO: Towards Exploration-Exploitation Balanced Policy Optimization via Hierarchical Token-level Objective Control

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a pivotal technique for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the de facto practice of mainstream RL algorithms is to treat all tokens of one response equally and assign the same optimization objective to each token, failing to provide granular guidance for the reasoning process. While in Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, different tokens usually play distinct roles. Therefore, the current RL algorithms lack an effective mechanism to dynamically balance the exploration-exploitation trade-off during learning. To this end, we propose Hierarchical Token-level Objective Control Policy Optimization (HTPO), a novel RL algorithm that takes the divide-and-conquer idea to hierarchically partition the response tokens into specific functional groups from three aspects (i.e., prompt difficulty, answer correctness, and token entropy). Within each group, according to the contributions to exploration or exploitation, we design specialized optimization objectives to facilitate the effective execution of each token's expected functionality. In this way, HTPO can achieve a more balanced exploration-exploitation trade-off. Extensive experiments on challenging reasoning benchmarks validate the superiority of our HTPO algorithm, which significantly outperforms the strong DAPO baseline (e.g., +8.6% and +6.7% on AIME'24 and AIME'25, respectively). When scaling test-time compute, the HTPO-trained model maintains a consistent performance advantage over the DAPO baseline, and the gap widens as the sampling budget increases, validating that our adaptive token-level control method fosters effective exploration without sacrificing exploitation performance. Code will be at https://github.com/xcyao00/HTPO.

preprint2015arXiv

Improved Image Deblurring based on Salient-region Segmentation

Image deblurring techniques play important roles in many image processing applications. As the blur varies spatially across the image plane, it calls for robust and effective methods to deal with the spatially-variant blur problem. In this paper, a Saliency-based Deblurring (SD) approach is proposed based on the saliency detection for salient-region segmentation and a corresponding compensate method for image deblurring. We also propose a PDE-based deblurring method which introduces an anisotropic Partial Differential Equation (PDE) model for latent image prediction and employs an adaptive optimization model in the kernel estimation and deconvolution steps. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

preprint2015arXiv

Intra-and-Inter-Constraint-based Video Enhancement based on Piecewise Tone Mapping

Video enhancement plays an important role in various video applications. In this paper, we propose a new intra-and-inter-constraint-based video enhancement approach aiming to 1) achieve high intra-frame quality of the entire picture where multiple region-of-interests (ROIs) can be adaptively and simultaneously enhanced, and 2) guarantee the inter-frame quality consistencies among video frames. We first analyze features from different ROIs and create a piecewise tone mapping curve for the entire frame such that the intra-frame quality of a frame can be enhanced. We further introduce new inter-frame constraints to improve the temporal quality consistency. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm obviously outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms.

preprint2015arXiv

Tree-based Visualization and Optimization for Image Collection

The visualization of an image collection is the process of displaying a collection of images on a screen under some specific layout requirements. This paper focuses on an important problem that is not well addressed by the previous methods: visualizing image collections into arbitrary layout shapes while arranging images according to user-defined semantic or visual correlations (e.g., color or object category). To this end, we first propose a property-based tree construction scheme to organize images of a collection into a tree structure according to user-defined properties. In this way, images can be adaptively placed with the desired semantic or visual correlations in the final visualization layout. Then, we design a two-step visualization optimization scheme to further optimize image layouts. As a result, multiple layout effects including layout shape and image overlap ratio can be effectively controlled to guarantee a satisfactory visualization. Finally, we also propose a tree-transfer scheme such that visualization layouts can be adaptively changed when users select different "images of interest". We demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach through the comparisons with state-of-the-art visualization techniques.