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New Interactive Reward Agent Achieves 86.9% Accuracy in GUI Task Evaluation

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Researchers have developed an Interactive Reward Agent (IRA) designed to improve the evaluation of GUI agents. This agent utilizes a propose-then-verify framework to gather and confirm evidence from the environment's state, combining visible interface data with system configurations and file data. The IRA achieved 86.9% accuracy on the newly introduced GUI-RewardBench, a benchmark comprising 321 GUI task trajectories across 10 Ubuntu desktop application categories. Furthermore, when applied to reinforcement learning for GUI agents, the IRA facilitated a 34.0% success rate in OSWorld, demonstrating its efficacy in providing training reward signals. AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel method for evaluating GUI agents, potentially improving their training and performance.

RANK_REASON The item is a research paper detailing a new method and benchmark for evaluating GUI agents. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New Interactive Reward Agent Achieves 86.9% Accuracy in GUI Task Evaluation

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Chenrui Shi, Yuwei Wu, Yang Liu, Ruining Feng, Zirui Shang, Zhi Gao, Lifeng Fan, Che Sun ·

    Interactive Reward Agent: GUI Task Evaluation via Environment-State Verification

    arXiv:2607.25904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphical user interface task evaluation aims to determine whether a GUI agent has successfully completed a user instruction. Automated GUI task evaluation has received increasing attention because the evaluation results can serve a…

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