JarvisGUI is a new benchmark that tests GUI agents on cross-device workflows involving Android, Windows, and Ubuntu, requiring transfer of intermediate results and coordination across heterogeneous platforms. It formulates tasks as input-output transformations under a lightweight type system, enabling automatic composition of multi-step, cross-device workflows and dynamic evaluation within a unified framework. The benchmark reveals that state-of-the-art open-source GUI agents struggle with state-transfer awareness, cross-platform contextual reasoning, and long-horizon dependency management, exposing a critical capability gap invisible to existing benchmarks.
By Zixiang Chen, Yuheng Lu, Zihao Cheng, Zeming Liu, Jizeng Bai, Ziye Huang, Zhiyin Lin, Zihan Li, Yuhang Guo, Yunhong Wang, Haifeng Wang
arXiv:2606. 09426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs) increasingly operate in runtimes that combine visual desktop control, command-line execution, code editing, browsers, and external tools.
By Wanli Li, Bowen Zhou, Yunyao Yu, Zhou Xu, Yifan Yang, Dongsheng Li, Caihua Shan
arXiv:2605. 25160v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: GUI agents powered by large language models are advancing rapidly, creating urgent needs for evaluation and training based on realistic environments.
By Guohong Liu, Jialei Ye, Pengzhi Gao, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Yunxin Liu, Yuanchun Li
arXiv:2609.38008v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Computer use agents (CUAs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in completing digital tasks. However, existing CUAs either rely solely on graphical us...
By Tongbo Chen, Junbo Niu, Zhengxi Lu, Niu Lian, Fei Tang, Yuchen Yan, Yike Hong, Yong Du, Yizhou Liu, Bofan Chen, Yongliang Shen
arXiv:2606. 03103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world professional desktop workflows in specialized creative and engineering software unfold over long horizons and often require human-in-the-loop coordination, where agents proactively seek necessary information and users provide additional instructions, clarifications, feedback, or corrections as the task progresses.
By Wenkai Wang, Tao Xiong, Jingchen Ni, Yunpeng Bao, Xiyun Li, Tianqi Liu, Hongcan Guo, Zilong Huang, Shengyu Zhang
arXiv:2606. 28480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models and harness frameworks continue to advance, agents operating in terminals are increasingly capable of performing a broader range of general computer-use tasks beyond coding.
By Shoufa Chen, Luyuan Wang, Xuan Yang, Zhiheng Liu, Yuren Cong, Yuanfeng Ji, Feiyan Zhou, Xiaohui Zhang, Fanny Yang, Belinda Zeng
arXiv:2606. 24551v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents can execute software tasks through either graphical interfaces or programmatic command interfaces, but existing evaluations confound interaction modality with differences in tasks, initial states, verifiers, and permitted actions.
By Xiao Zhou, Siyue Zhang, Yilun Zhao, Jinbiao Wei, Tingyu Song, Arman Cohan, Chen Zhao
Computer use agents (CUAs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in completing digital tasks. However, existing CUAs either rely solely on graphical user interface (GUI) interactions, which are often...
CUA-Universe is a scalable environment-to-data pipeline that transforms real desktop software into hybrid GUI+CLI environments, enabling agents to coordinate visual inspection with command-line operations. It includes App-Forge for reproducible VMs and CLI surfaces, Task-Weave for generating diverse hybrid tasks, and Path-Steer for efficient rollouts and trajectory harvesting. Training on this data improves agent success and efficiency across multiple benchmarks, demonstrating the value of hybrid interaction.
By Haoting Shi, Wenhao Wang, Weicheng Fang, Yaozhong Liang, Tian Jin, Pengxiang Zhao, Guangyi Liu, Siheng Chen, Yanfeng Wang
arXiv:2608. 15930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation GUI agents can automate complex digital tasks, but deployment is hindered by scarce and biased training data, ambiguous prompts, and unreliable execution.
By Zihan Ding, Longxu Dou, Qi Gao, Xiangwu Guo, Shengchao Hu, Zilong Huang, Zihang Jiang, Lei Ke, Mengcheng Lan, Weixian Lei, Hanxuan Li, Honglin Li, Xiyun Li, Zaitang Li, Leowei Liang, Xin Luo, Haozhe Ma, Jiayi Mao, Zhoujie Pan, Can Qin, Tianyuan Qu, Weiqi Wang, Wenkai Wang, Yonglin Wang, Yuxin Wang, Chenxu Wu, Yingchen Yu, Chenyu Zhang, Yuhao Zheng
arXiv:2609.40284v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Computer use agents (CUAs), which use graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to complete tasks on a computer, have recently surpassed human performance on...
By Pranjal Aggarwal, Lawrence Keunho Jang, Sean Welleck, Daniel Fried, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Jing Yu Koh
The paper surveys efficient GUI agents, emphasizing that practical deployment requires more than task success—it must also minimize context, computation, action budget, and runtime overhead. It reviews key efficiency dimensions—observation, memory, action, and planner/system—and identifies recurring strategies such as selective reading, global-to-local visual allocation, recoverable memory, verification-aware control, and hybrid runtimes. The authors highlight open challenges, including accurate verifier cost accounting, benchmark comparability, and co-design of observation, memory, and execution layers under real latency and privacy constraints.
By Bizhe Bai, Jiakang Yuan, Hongming Wu, Xinyue Wang, Jie Ren, Siyao Chen, Yuchen Ya, Fan Bai, Pai Peng, Huafeng Qin, Tao Chen