arXiv AI

What's Missing in Screen-to-Action? Towards a UI-in-the-Loop Paradigm for Multimodal GUI Reasoning

arXiv:2604. 06995v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing Graphical User Interface (GUI) reasoning tasks remain challenging, particularly in UI understanding.

arXiv AI
Sep 2

UI-Venus-2 Technical Report

UI‑Venus‑2 is a general‑purpose foundation GUI agent that operates across mobile, web, and desktop environments using a unified closed‑loop reasoning‑action framework. The report details how the system expands environment coverage to over 170 multilingual mobile apps and native desktop OSes, scales task generation through a deep‑research pipeline, and enhances verification with trace‑level and sample‑level evaluators that use visual keypoints and multi‑model voting. Safety‑aware mechanisms are also incorporated to control consequential actions, positioning UI‑Venus‑2 as an efficient, open‑source tool for more generalizable, verifiable, and self‑reflective agents in real‑world applications.

By Venus Team, Zhuohan Cai, Haoxing Chen, Jiaxuan Chen, Weizhi Chen, Changlong Gao, Zhangxuan Gu, Yuan Guo, Yusong Hu, Jianrong Jiang, Jianguo Li, Runze Li, Jinzhen Lin, Zhenyu Ma, Changhua Meng, Han Peng, Xinyu Qiu, Shuheng Shen, Zhongyi Shui, Weiqiang Wang, Ming Wen, Zhuoer Xu, Hang Yan, Kaiwen Yang, Ruilin Yao, Nanjun Yu, Zhengwen Zeng, Lianrui Zhang, Yunzhu Zhang, Zhe Zhao, Beitong Zhou
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
Jun 10

V-REX: Benchmarking Exploratory Visual Reasoning via Chain-of-Questions

arXiv:2512. 11995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While many vision-language models (VLMs) are developed to answer well-defined, straightforward questions with highly specified targets, as in most benchmarks, they often struggle in practice with complex open-ended tasks, which usually require multiple rounds of exploration and reasoning in the visual space.

By Chenrui Fan, Yijun Liang, Shweta Bhardwaj, Kwesi Cobbina, Ming Li, Tianyi Zhou
arXiv AI
2d ago

VISTA: A Visual Harness for Reasoning in an Interactive World

The paper introduces VISTA, a visual harness that equips a general-purpose multimodal model with long‑horizon vision and a lossless visual memory. VISTA enables the model to directly perceive and actively retrieve past observations, allowing it to reorganize visual input during reasoning. On the ARC‑AGI‑3 benchmark, VISTA boosts Claude Opus 5.0’s Relative Human Action Efficiency from 40.68 to a perfect 100.00, completing all 25 public games with 57.4% fewer actions than first‑time human participants, and it also outperforms baselines on three additional visual game and puzzle benchmarks.

By Qiushi Han, Keya Hu, Linlu Qiu, Cathy Wu, Kaiming He
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 30

ReasonRec: A Reasoning-Augmented Multimodal Agent for Unified Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 28357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal recommenders excel at feature fusion but remain opaque and inefficient decision-makers, lacking explicit reasoning and self-awareness of uncertainty.

By Yihua Zhang, Mingfu Liang, Jiyan Yang, Rong Jin, Wen-Yen Chen, Yiping Han, Huayu Li, Buyun Zhang, Liang Luo, Frank Shyu, Luke Simon, Sijia Liu, Tianlong Chen, Xi Liu