We introduce State Transition Pretraining (STP) as a new scaling axis for GUI agents. During the STP stage, we continually pretrain a unified multimodal model on visual state transitions by jointly optimizing inverse dynamics (predicting actions from state changes) and forward dynamics (predicting next states from current states and actions).
arXiv:2607. 17050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GUI agents must reason about how actions transform interface states, but end-to-end success rates entangle this ability with perception, grounding, planning, and recovery.
By Yaohan Yang, Minglei Shi, Borui Zhang, Jie Zhou, Jiwen Lu
arXiv:2608.22847v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) based GUI agents stand to benefit significantly from online reinforcement learning (RL). However, their training is bottl...
By Long Zhang, Yuhan Chen, Chaoran Zhang, Wanxia Cao, Kun Huang, Pengzhi Gao, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Chenliang Li, Lixin Zou
arXiv:2609.22083v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present MintAct, a family of vision-language models that unifies UI grounding, multi-step navigation across mobile, desktop, and web, and visual too...
By Mingfei Gao, Rui Tian, Haiming Gang, Bohan Zhai, Le Zhang, Yuanzheng Gong, Di Feng, Ege \"Ozsoy, Kaixin Ma, Vishwesh Kirthivasan, O\u{g}uzhan Fatih Kar, Roman Bachmann, Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen, Afshin Dehghan
GUI-CC is a benchmark designed to assess the contextual consistency of GUI world models when used as agent environments, rather than just one‑step next‑screen predictors. It includes two tracks: an offline reference‑action track that rolls models along real mobile GUI trajectories, and an online agent‑loop track where fixed probing agents interact with model‑generated UIs. The benchmark evaluates transition fidelity, plausibility, contextual consistency, and task progress across 500 offline trajectory tasks and 200 online tasks spanning 30 mobile apps.
By Lin Fu, Zheyuan Yang, Tianhui Zhang, Jinbiao Wei, Guo Gan, Boxu Liu, Yilun Zhao, Yu Rong
arXiv:2607. 04425v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal foundation models and agent systems have driven GUI agents from single-platform task execution toward cross-platform interaction.
By Niu Lian, Tongbo Chen, Zhehao Yu, Chengzhen Duan, Fazhan Liu, Hui Liu, Pei Fu, Jian Luan, Heng Qu, Shu-Tao Xia, Jinpeng Wang
arXiv:2601. 14232v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pixel-based reinforcement learning agents often fail under purely visual distribution shift even when latent dynamics and rewards are unchanged, but existing benchmarks entangle multiple sources of shift and hinder systematic analysis.
By Egor Cherepanov, Daniil Zelezetsky, Alexey K. Kovalev, Aleksandr I. Panov
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) based GUI agents stand to benefit significantly from online reinforcement learning (RL). However, their training is bottlenecked by two fundamental issues: current data s...
arXiv:2608.21830v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for automating tasks across diver...
By Chengyang Gu, Le Zhang, Jingbo Zhou, Yize Chen, Yu Shi, Siqi Bao, Zheng-Fan Wu, Hua Wu, Hui Xiong
arXiv:2606. 31410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphical user interface (GUI) agents build on vision-language models to complete user tasks end-to-end in real applications through interface actions such as tapping, swiping, text entry, and navigation.
By Wanxia Cao, Chengzhen Duan, Pei Fu, Pengzhi Gao, Niu Lian, Fazhan Liu, Hui Liu, Heng Qu, Qinzhuo Wu, Zhehao Yu, Tongbo Chen, Shiqi Cui, Anan Du, Shukai Jia, Yuanfa Li, Yike Liu, Wenchao Lu, Haoyuan Sun, Jiatong Sun, Cheng Tan, Yajie Wang, Changqiao Wu, Tao Xiong, Jiahui Yang, Yuxuan Yuan, Ruoceng Zhang, Shaojie Zhang, Jian Zhu, Jian Luan, Cong Zou
arXiv:2608. 05587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous mobile GUI agents require accurate action reflection for reliable long-horizon execution.
By Linqiang Guo (Peter), Wei Liu (Peter), Li Gu (Peter), Yang Wang (Peter), Tse-Hsun (Peter), Chen
arXiv:2609.37250v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) couple future visual-state prediction with action generation. By adapting video generators or image-editing models pretrai...
By Yang Zhang, Jiangyuan Zhao, Chenyou Fan, Jiayu Hu, Xiu Yuan, Chenjia Bai, Xiu Li