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NorthCUA scales computer-use agents via an experience flywheel, recursive self-improvement, staged learning, and reinforcement learning to achieve state-of-the-art open-source GUI and web interaction results.
Scaling computer-use agents from individual actions to complex software work requires experience that connects decisions to complete outcomes. We present NorthCUA, an integrated system for turbocharging computer-use agents through experience at scale. Its Experience Flywheel supplies diverse executable tasks to the NorthCUA Harness, which sustains long interactions, records decisions, and checks task outcomes. The Flywheel uses these records to curate verified trajectories. For unsolved tasks, recursive self-improvement evolves reusable skills and preserves verified milestones so later attempts build on earlier progress. Staged Learning combines this experience with grounding data from the…
computer-use agentsExperience Flywheelrecursive self-improvementreusable skillsverified milestonesStaged Learningsupervised fine-tuningreinforcement learningGUI groundingdesktop execution
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