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New CRATE Framework Enhances Mobile Agent Evaluation with Step-Level Reasoning

Researchers have developed CRATE, a new two-stage framework for evaluating language-guided mobile agents. This framework uses a Visual-Language Model (VLM) as a judge, processing trajectories at a step-level to reason about consequences and state changes, rather than processing the entire trajectory at once. CRATE focuses on both task completion and operational safety, with an extension called CRATE-S specifically for safety assessments. Experiments show CRATE achieves high accuracy on task completion benchmarks, outperforming existing methods, and CRATE-S demonstrates strong alignment with safety benchmarks. AI

IMPACT This framework could improve the development and safety testing of AI agents used in mobile applications.

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New CRATE Framework Enhances Mobile Agent Evaluation with Step-Level Reasoning

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Pengshuai Yang, Zijing Gao, Xue Yu, Benhui Zhuang, Bo Yuan, Junlan Feng ·

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