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New framework enhances mobile GUI agents' ability to manage complex tasks

Researchers have developed a new framework called Task-State Representation (TSR) to improve the performance of mobile GUI agents. TSR addresses the issue of agents struggling to distinguish between persistent task goals and transient screen observations, which can lead to errors and inefficiencies. By maintaining a structured separation of task state, instruction summary, and action verification, TSR guides agent reasoning without altering their core architecture. Experiments show that TSR can significantly increase success rates on complex, memory-intensive tasks across various mobile GUI benchmarks. AI

IMPACT This framework could lead to more reliable and efficient AI agents for automating tasks on mobile devices.

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New framework enhances mobile GUI agents' ability to manage complex tasks

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yujie Zheng, Zikang Liu, Xin Zhao, Ji-Rong Wen ·

    A Task-State Representation for Long-Horizon Mobile GUI Agents

    arXiv:2607.00502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While long-horizon mobile GUI agents typically rely on thought-action-observation loops, they struggle to separate persistent task states from transient screen observations. As execution histories grow, this entanglement imposes a s…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Ji-Rong Wen ·

    A Task-State Representation for Long-Horizon Mobile GUI Agents

    While long-horizon mobile GUI agents typically rely on thought-action-observation loops, they struggle to separate persistent task states from transient screen observations. As execution histories grow, this entanglement imposes a severe context burden, causing agents to forget i…