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Woongkyu Lee, Jungwook Choi

CANDID uses selective candidate sampling to address repeated actions and premature task completion in local computer-use agents. At detected loops, it filters repeated actions; when the agent proposes DONE, it keeps that decision only if all candidates agree. On OSWorld, it raises Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B’s accuracy from 35.31% to 38.80%, but unanimous gating is not a semantic completion verifier and configurations are model-specific.

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