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GUICrafter: Weakly-Supervised GUI Agent Reduces Annotation Needs

Researchers have developed GUICrafter, a novel weakly-supervised GUI agent designed to overcome the data collection challenges in training such systems. By leveraging massive amounts of unannotated screenshots, GUICrafter significantly reduces the need for expensive human annotations. The agent employs a two-stage curriculum learning framework, first learning visual grounding from unannotated data and then calibrating with a small set of high-quality data via reinforcement learning. Experiments indicate that GUICrafter achieves performance comparable to or better than existing systems like UI-TARS, using a fraction of the data. AI

IMPACT This approach could significantly lower the barrier to entry for developing sophisticated GUI agents by reducing data annotation costs.

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GUICrafter: Weakly-Supervised GUI Agent Reduces Annotation Needs

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Sunqi Fan, Lingshan Chen, Runqi Yin, Qingle Liu, Yongming Rao, Meng-Hao Guo, Shi-Min Hu ·

    GUICrafter: Weakly-Supervised GUI Agent Leveraging Massive Unannotated Screenshots

    arXiv:2606.29705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data, as the fundamental substrate of modern intelligence, has greatly driven the development of current foundation models. Naturally, researchers aim to extend this paradigm to the domain of GUI agents, hoping to build strong GUI a…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Shi-Min Hu ·

    GUICrafter: Weakly-Supervised GUI Agent Leveraging Massive Unannotated Screenshots

    Data, as the fundamental substrate of modern intelligence, has greatly driven the development of current foundation models. Naturally, researchers aim to extend this paradigm to the domain of GUI agents, hoping to build strong GUI agents through a similar paradigm. However, GUI a…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    GUICrafter: Weakly-Supervised GUI Agent Leveraging Massive Unannotated Screenshots

    GUICrafter addresses GUI agent data challenges through a weakly-supervised approach using unannotated screenshots and a two-stage curriculum learning framework for visual grounding and reinforcement learning calibration.