arXiv Computer Vision By Dengyao Shi, Tianyu Fu, Fei Hu, Anyang Su, Hanning Wang, Shuo Wang, Minghui Wu, Chenxu Zhao, Zhen Lei

BiGrounder: Bidirectional Training Unlocks the Potential of GUI Grounding

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BiGrounder introduces a bidirectional training paradigm for GUI grounding, enabling models to generate action descriptions from target coordinates during supervised fine‑tuning and to sample semantically consistent instruction variations during reinforcement learning. This cycle‑consistency approach couples semantic quality with grounding success, allowing the model’s own instruction policy to provide continually refreshed reinforcement trajectories. The 4B‑parameter BiGrounder achieves competitive accuracy across five grounding benchmarks, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed training paradigm.

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