Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated growing competence in web page generation. However, existing text-driven approaches rely on complex prompts that impose substantial demands on users and offer limited expressivity for page layout and cross-page visual coherence.
arXiv:2605. 26144v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present VISTA (VIsual Spec-To-App Benchmark), a benchmark for evaluating the end-to-end web-app generation capabilities of LLM-based agents.
By JunJia Guo (Joe), Yuhang Yao (Joe), Jiawei (Joe), Zhou, Jingdi Chen
RILA is an execution‑driven agent that integrates browser rendering into the generation loop for interactive web development. It uses an Action Interaction Verification module to replay reference interactions on generated pages, collecting execution‑aware observations, and an Execution‑aware Rendering Score to jointly assess interaction correctness and visual fidelity during iterative optimization. A data synthesis pipeline further augments training data, enabling RILA to significantly improve interaction and visual quality across foundation models, even outperforming larger one‑shot generators.
By Yilong Guo, Hanqi Chen, Zixiao Ye, Guanzhong Wang, Chen Yu, Zeyu Chen
arXiv:2606. 00154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in multimodal reasoning and code generation, catalyzing a new paradigm for front-end development.
By Fan Wu, Lishuai Dong, Cuiyun Gao, Yujia Chen, Yiming Huang, Yang Xiao, Qing Liao
The paper surveys Multimodal Code Intelligence, focusing on tasks where code is generated, edited, refined, or reasoned about under visually grounded inputs such as screenshots, charts, and videos. It categorizes the field by the role of code—rendered artifact, editable structure, intermediate reasoning trace, or executable tool interface—and organizes benchmarks into four domains: Graphical User Interface, Scientific Visualization, Structured Graphics, and Frontier Tasks and Frameworks. The authors argue that reliable evaluation must include evidence of semantics and interaction beyond visual fidelity, and propose four verification-centered research directions to advance the field toward evidence-grounded executable systems.
By Xuanle Zhao, Qiushi Sun, Jingyu Xiao, Xuexin Liu, Haoyue Yang, Qiaosheng Chen, Xianzhen Luo, Jing Huang, Yufeng Zhong, Lei Chen, Shuai Fu, Zhenlin Wei, Jinhe Bi, Lei Jiang, Haibo Qiu, Siqi Yang, Peng Shi, Jian Hu, Zhixiong Zeng
arXiv:2508. 04412v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The advent of large language models (LLMs) has sparked an evolution of autonomous web browsing agents: given a web browsing task and serialised user interface (UI) state, an LLM is expected to suggest input actions that incrementally solve the given task.
By Thassilo M. Schiepanski, Nicholas Pi\"el
arXiv:2607. 28645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models can convert visual designs directly into executable code, but real mobile products require multiple screenshots to become a buildable codebase with shared components and working navigation.
By Fan Wu, Cuiyun Gao, Yiming Huang, Yang Xiao, Yujia Chen, Qing Liao
arXiv:2608. 05891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile GUI agents can operate apps through pixel perception and touch actions, making them a promising interface for collecting and improving long-horizon mobile interaction policies.
By Weikai Xu, Yunren Feng, Haoxiang Lei, Kun Huang, Yuxuan Liu, Kang Zhao, Xiaolin Hu, Shuo Shang, Bo An
arXiv:2607. 10079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) are embedded overlays widely used on web systems to guide users through operations inside a page, helping them get started with unfamiliar interfaces quickly.
By Chengguang Gan, Hanjun Wei, Yunhao Liang, Zhixi Cai, Qinghao Zhang, Shiwen Ni
arXiv:2606. 13192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: User experience (UX) centered on usability, perceived consistency, and functional clarity is fundamental to real-world user interfaces (UI).
By Ruichao Mao, Zhou Fang, Teng Guo, Hao Yang, Yaping Li, Shaohua Peng, Maji Huang, Xiaoyu Lin, Shuoyang Liu, Xuepeng Li, Yuyu Zhang, Hai Rao
arXiv:2606. 17727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promising progress in generating webpages from visual inputs, yet existing evaluations mainly focus on short, single-screen, and largely static webpages.
By Yi Zhao, Zhen Yang, Mengpan Chen, Mingde Xu, Shanghui Gong, Xijun Liu, Jibing Gong, Jie Tang
arXiv:2610.01215v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: GUI agents require high-quality interaction trajectories to learn how software environments respond to actions, maintain state, and support multi-step...
By Cheng Yang, Yifan Wu, Yutao Huang, Zhaohua Zhang, Beiduo Chen, Muxi Chen, Chenchen Zhao, Hexuan Deng, Haolin Yang, Geyuan Zhu, Sa Zhu, Jianhuan Zhuo, Qiuyong Xiao, Jianhao Ruan, Yiran Peng, Jiayi Zhang, Tian Ye, Xinlei Yu, Tianwen Jiang, Jihong Zhang, Yuyu Luo