arXiv Machine Learning

Learning Reliable GUI Agents under Imperfect Priors

arXiv AI
Aug 19

ScreenSearch: Uncertainty-Aware OS Exploration

ScreenSearch is a system for exploring desktop GUI states under partial observability. It combines structural screen retrieval, deduplication, and an ambiguity-aware PUCT graph-bandit to expand the reachable frontier while reducing state ambiguity. Across 11 applications, it collected over 1 M screenshots and 30 K deduplicated states, demonstrating that both ambiguity reduction and frontier exploration are essential for effective corpus building.

By Michael Solodko, Justin Wagle
arXiv AI
Jun 12

Teach-and-Repeat: Accurately Extracting Operational Knowledge from Mobile Screen Demonstrations to Empower GUI Agents

arXiv:2606. 12817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the digital world on mobile devices is shifting from static UI perception to dynamic action comprehension.

By Yudong Zhang (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Lei Hu (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Daoyang Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), Jiawei Liu (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Yangfan Luo (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Xingyu Liu (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Zuojian Wang (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Zhilin Gao (Honor Device Co., Ltd)
arXiv AI
Jun 15

GUITrans2Act: Understanding User Operational Behaviors from Mobile GUI Interactions with Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 12817v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding the digital world on mobile devices is shifting from static UI perception to dynamic action comprehension.

By Yudong Zhang (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Lei Hu (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Daoyang Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), Jiawei Liu (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Yangfan Luo (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Zhilin Gao (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Zuojian Wang (Honor Device Co., Ltd)
arXiv AI
Sep 2

GUI-CC: Benchmarking Contextual Consistency of GUI World Models as Agent Environments

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 AI
Aug 26

Are Android GUI Agents Robust Against Runtime Anomalies? AnTrap: Evaluating Agents in Dynamic Adversarial Environments

The paper introduces AnTrap, a benchmark that injects dynamic perturbations into Android GUI agent execution to evaluate robustness against runtime anomalies. It presents a taxonomy of anomalies across four layers—State, Thinking, Action, and Round—with ten subcategories, and a pipeline that maintains task solvability while adding realistic adversarial conditions. Experiments on 16 leading GUI models show universal vulnerability, and reinforcement learning can mitigate some traps but not deep contextual ones like state deadlock.

By Guo Gan, Yilun Zhao, Cong Chen, Jinbiao Wei, Tingyu Song, Zheyuan Yang, Lin Fu, Hong Zhou
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Learning, Reasoning, Refinement: A Framework for Kahneman's Dual-System Intelligence in GUI Agents

arXiv:2506. 17913v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents have made significant progress in automating digital tasks through the utilization of computer vision and language models.

By Jinjie Wei, Jiyao Liu, Lihao Liu, Ming Hu, Junzhi Ning, Mingcheng Li, Weijie Yin, Junjun He, Xiao Liang, Chao Feng, Dingkang Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 11

Grounding Computer Use Agents on Human Demonstrations

arXiv:2511. 07332v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building reliable computer-use agents requires grounding: accurately connecting natural language instructions to the correct on-screen elements.

By Aarash Feizi, Shravan Nayak, Xiangru Jian, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Kaixin Li, Rabiul Awal, Xing Han L\`u, Johan Obando-Ceron, Juan A. Rodriguez, Nicolas Chapados, David Vazquez, Adriana Romero-Soriano, Reihaneh Rabbany, Perouz Taslakian, Christopher Pal, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar