arXiv:2608. 11588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile GUI agents remain brittle when deployed to applications absent from source training.
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Mobile GUI agents remain brittle when deployed to applications absent from source training. We study novel-app generalization under a limited target interaction budget and without target demonstrations.
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