AXIS: Efficient Human-Agent-Computer Interaction with API-First LLM-Based Agents
Junting Lu , Zhiyang Zhang , Fangkai Yang , Jue Zhang , Lu Wang , Chao Du , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Dongmei Zhang , Qi Zhang
- 🏛 Institutions
- PKU , NJU , Microsoft
- 📅 Date
- September 26, 2024
- 📑 Publisher
- ACL 2025
- 💻 Env
- Desktop
- 🔑 Keywords
TLDR
AXIS is an API-first agent framework that prioritizes application APIs over direct UI actions and also expands API coverage through automated exploration. On Microsoft Word tasks, it reduces completion time by 65-70% and cognitive workload by 38-53% while maintaining 97-98% accuracy relative to human performance, and it motivates a Human-Agent-Computer Interaction design framework for agent-centric software.
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