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New frameworks and benchmarks advance mobile GUI agents

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Researchers are developing new frameworks and benchmarks to improve the capabilities of mobile GUI agents. BlueLM-GUI, a 35B-A3B agent, focuses on real-device training and error correction to achieve higher performance on benchmarks like MobileGUI-VBench. JarvisGUI addresses cross-device workflows, highlighting current agents' struggles with state transfer and long-horizon dependencies. DroidTool introduces self-generated tools to enhance Android agents' efficiency and performance, while APPSim-Bench offers controllable simulated apps for reproducible evaluation, revealing that autonomous mobile execution is still a significant challenge. AgentLens explores adaptive visual modalities for better human-agent interaction in mobile GUI agents. AI

IMPACT These advancements aim to improve the reliability, efficiency, and user interaction of mobile GUI agents, potentially accelerating their adoption in real-world applications.

RANK_REASON Multiple research papers introducing new frameworks, benchmarks, and methodologies for mobile GUI agents.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Tong Ye, Kunyang Han, Guozhi Wang, Longqiang Luo, Zhifeng Ding, Yongxiang Zhang, Xiaolei Shen, Yuxuan Zhang, Zhuping Zhang, Tao Xu, Yue Pan, Yucheng Zhao, Yupei Hu, Yuanjiang Ouyang, Danfeng Shen, Runqi Lin, Hongda Cai, Zhaoxiong Wang, Mengjia Yan, Yingj… ·

    BlueLM-GUI Technical Report: A Real-Device-Centric Flywheel for Self-Improving Mobile GUI Agents

    arXiv:2609.12394v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mobile GUI agents are shifting from multi-module frameworks to native models trained end-to-end, yet industrial deployment faces three persistent gaps. Sandbox training produces a distribution mismatch with production environmen…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zixiang Chen, Yuheng Lu, Zihao Cheng, Zeming Liu, Jizeng Bai, Ziye Huang, Zhiyin Lin, Zihan Li, Yuhang Guo, Yunhong Wang, Haifeng Wang ·

    JarvisGUI: Towards Cross-Device GUI Agents with Dynamic Task Composition

    arXiv:2609.10451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world GUI usage frequently involves workflows that span multiple devices and platforms, requiring the transfer of intermediate results, maintenance of shared state, and coordination across heterogeneous environments. However, e…

  3. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Juyong Lee, Woogyeol Jin, Kimin Lee ·

    Improving Proficiency and Efficiency of Android GUI Agents via Self-Generating Tool Actions

    arXiv:2609.06792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Android agents using a hybrid action space that combines GUI actions and tool actions (e.g., accessing application data via APIs) remain largely underexplored, mainly due to the excessive effort required to create tools. To address …

  4. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jintian Feng, Long Chen, Xiao Yu, Jiayi Dai, Chenglong Liu, Haoru Wang, Zizhen Xue, Yuxuan Shi, Ziyang Wang, Yichen Gong ·

    APPSim-Bench: Bridging Real-world Apps and Reproducible Evaluation for Mobile GUI Agents

    arXiv:2609.07712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile GUI agents can execute tasks from natural-language instructions, but their evaluation remains difficult to make both realistic and reproducible. Existing benchmarks typically trade off these goals: simplified apps lack real-w…

  5. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jeonghyeon Kim, Byeongjun Joung, Junwon Lee, Joohyung Lee, Taehoon Min, Sunjae Lee ·

    AgentLens: Adaptive Visual Modalities for Human-Agent Interaction in Mobile GUI Agents

    arXiv:2604.20279v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mobile GUI agents can automate smartphone tasks by interacting directly with app interfaces, but how they should communicate with users during execution remains underexplored. Existing systems rely on two extremes: foregro…

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

    APPSim-Bench: Bridging Real-world Apps and Reproducible Evaluation for Mobile GUI Agents

    Mobile GUI agents can execute tasks from natural-language instructions, but their evaluation remains difficult to make both realistic and reproducible. Existing benchmarks typically trade off these goals: simplified apps lack real-world mobile complexity, whereas live commercial …

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