PAGER achieves 4.1x higher task success in point-precise geometric GUI control by combining topology-aware planning with precision-aligned reinforcement learning on the new PAGE Bench dataset of 4,906 problems.
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UI-R1: Enhancing Efficient Action Prediction of GUI Agents by Reinforcement Learning
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The recent DeepSeek-R1 has showcased the emergence of reasoning capabilities in LLMs through reinforcement learning (RL) with rule-based rewards. Despite its success in language models, its application in multi-modal domains, particularly in graphic user interface (GUI) agent tasks, remains under-explored. To address this issue, we propose UI-R1, the first framework to explore how rule-based RL can enhance the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for GUI action prediction tasks. Specifically, UI-R1 introduces a novel rule-based action reward, enabling model optimization via policy-based algorithms such as Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). For efficient training, we curate a small yet high-quality dataset of 136 challenging tasks, encompassing five common action types on mobile devices. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed UI-R1-3B achieves significant improvements over the base model (i.e. Qwen2.5-VL-3B) on both in-domain (ID) and out-of-domain (OOD) tasks, with average accuracy gains of 22.1% on ScreenSpot, 6.0% on ScreenSpot-Pro, and 12.7% on ANDROIDCONTROL. Furthermore, UI-R1-3B delivers competitive performance compared to larger models (e.g., OS-Atlas-7B) trained via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on 76K samples. We additionally develop an optimized version, UI-R1-E-3B, which significantly improves both grounding efficiency and accuracy. These results underscore the potential of rule-based reinforcement learning to advance GUI understanding and control, paving the way for future research in this domain. Code website: https://github.com/lll6gg/UI-R1.
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MAS-Bench introduces 139 tasks, 88 predefined shortcuts, and 9 metrics to evaluate hybrid GUI-shortcut mobile agents, reporting up to 68.3% success and 39% efficiency gains over GUI-only baselines.
GUI-R1 uses reinforcement fine-tuning with GRPO on a small curated dataset to create a generalist vision-language action model that outperforms prior GUI agent methods across mobile, desktop, and web benchmarks using only 0.02% of the data.
Video-R1 uses temporal-aware RL and mixed datasets to boost video reasoning in MLLMs, with a 7B model reaching 37.1% on VSI-Bench and surpassing GPT-4o.
ToolCUA introduces a trajectory scaling pipeline and staged RL to optimize GUI-tool switching, reaching 46.85% accuracy on OSWorld-MCP for a 66% relative gain over baseline.
LiteGUI trains 2B/3B-scale GUI agents via SFT-free guided on-policy distillation and multi-solution dual-level GRPO to reach SOTA lightweight performance and compete with larger models.
BAMI mitigates precision and ambiguity biases in GUI grounding via coarse-to-fine focus and candidate selection, raising accuracy on ScreenSpot-Pro without training.
ROSE is a system for cooperative elasticity that co-locates serving and rollout models on shared GPUs, delivering 1.3-3.3x higher end-to-end throughput than fixed-resource baselines while preserving serving SLOs.
AutoGUI-v2 is a new benchmark exposing that VLMs handle basic GUI grounding but struggle with complex interaction logic and state prediction.
UI-Zoomer uses uncertainty quantification to trigger and size adaptive zoom-ins only on uncertain GUI grounding predictions, yielding up to 13.4% gains on benchmarks with no training.
VeriOS-Agent is an OS agent that proactively queries humans in untrustworthy scenarios via a query-driven framework and three-stage training, achieving 19.72% higher step-wise success rate over baselines while preserving normal performance.
GTA1 combines test-time scaling for action plan selection with RL-based grounding to achieve SOTA results on GUI agent benchmarks.
LPO optimizes GUI agent positional accuracy by combining information entropy for zone selection with a physical-distance reward inside a Group Relative Preference Optimization framework, claiming SOTA results on benchmarks and online tests.
ViGoRL introduces visually grounded RL that anchors reasoning steps to image coordinates and uses multi-turn zooming to outperform standard RL and supervised baselines on spatial and GUI reasoning benchmarks.
InfiGUI-R1 uses Reasoning Injection via spatial distillation followed by Deliberation Enhancement via RL to evolve GUI agents from reactive actors to deliberative reasoners, reporting strong performance on grounding and trajectory tasks.
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HalluClear supplies a taxonomy, calibrated evaluation, and lightweight post-training mitigation that reduces hallucinations in GUI agents using only 9K samples.
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PAGER: Bridging the Semantic-Execution Gap in Point-Precise Geometric GUI Control
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Beyond Binary: Reframing GUI Critique as Continuous Semantic Alignment
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OS-SPEAR: A Toolkit for the Safety, Performance,Efficiency, and Robustness Analysis of OS Agents
OS-SPEAR is a new evaluation toolkit that tests 22 OS agents and identifies trade-offs between efficiency and safety or robustness.
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ProactiveMobile: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Boosting Proactive Intelligence on Mobile Devices
ProactiveMobile is a new benchmark for proactive mobile agents that tests latent intent inference from context and executable API generation, where a fine-tuned 7B model reaches 19.15% success versus 15.71% for o1 and 7.39% for GPT-5.
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MAS-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Shortcut-Augmented Hybrid Mobile GUI Agents
MAS-Bench introduces 139 tasks, 88 predefined shortcuts, and 9 metrics to evaluate hybrid GUI-shortcut mobile agents, reporting up to 68.3% success and 39% efficiency gains over GUI-only baselines.
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GUI-R1 : A Generalist R1-Style Vision-Language Action Model For GUI Agents
GUI-R1 uses reinforcement fine-tuning with GRPO on a small curated dataset to create a generalist vision-language action model that outperforms prior GUI agent methods across mobile, desktop, and web benchmarks using only 0.02% of the data.
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Video-R1: Reinforcing Video Reasoning in MLLMs
Video-R1 uses temporal-aware RL and mixed datasets to boost video reasoning in MLLMs, with a 7B model reaching 37.1% on VSI-Bench and surpassing GPT-4o.
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ToolCUA: Towards Optimal GUI-Tool Path Orchestration for Computer Use Agents
ToolCUA introduces a trajectory scaling pipeline and staged RL to optimize GUI-tool switching, reaching 46.85% accuracy on OSWorld-MCP for a 66% relative gain over baseline.
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LiteGUI: Distilling Compact GUI Agents with Reinforcement Learning
LiteGUI trains 2B/3B-scale GUI agents via SFT-free guided on-policy distillation and multi-solution dual-level GRPO to reach SOTA lightweight performance and compete with larger models.
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BAMI: Training-Free Bias Mitigation in GUI Grounding
BAMI mitigates precision and ambiguity biases in GUI grounding via coarse-to-fine focus and candidate selection, raising accuracy on ScreenSpot-Pro without training.
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ROSE: Rollout On Serving GPUs via Cooperative Elasticity for Agentic RL
ROSE is a system for cooperative elasticity that co-locates serving and rollout models on shared GPUs, delivering 1.3-3.3x higher end-to-end throughput than fixed-resource baselines while preserving serving SLOs.
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AutoGUI-v2: A Comprehensive Multi-Modal GUI Functionality Understanding Benchmark
AutoGUI-v2 is a new benchmark exposing that VLMs handle basic GUI grounding but struggle with complex interaction logic and state prediction.
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UI-Zoomer: Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive Zoom-In for GUI Grounding
UI-Zoomer uses uncertainty quantification to trigger and size adaptive zoom-ins only on uncertain GUI grounding predictions, yielding up to 13.4% gains on benchmarks with no training.
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VeriOS: Query-Driven Proactive Human-Agent-GUI Interaction for Trustworthy OS Agents
VeriOS-Agent is an OS agent that proactively queries humans in untrustworthy scenarios via a query-driven framework and three-stage training, achieving 19.72% higher step-wise success rate over baselines while preserving normal performance.
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GTA1: GUI Test-time Scaling Agent
GTA1 combines test-time scaling for action plan selection with RL-based grounding to achieve SOTA results on GUI agent benchmarks.
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LPO: Towards Accurate GUI Agent Interaction via Location Preference Optimization
LPO optimizes GUI agent positional accuracy by combining information entropy for zone selection with a physical-distance reward inside a Group Relative Preference Optimization framework, claiming SOTA results on benchmarks and online tests.
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Grounded Reinforcement Learning for Visual Reasoning
ViGoRL introduces visually grounded RL that anchors reasoning steps to image coordinates and uses multi-turn zooming to outperform standard RL and supervised baselines on spatial and GUI reasoning benchmarks.
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InfiGUI-R1: Advancing Multimodal GUI Agents from Reactive Actors to Deliberative Reasoners
InfiGUI-R1 uses Reasoning Injection via spatial distillation followed by Deliberation Enhancement via RL to evolve GUI agents from reactive actors to deliberative reasoners, reporting strong performance on grounding and trajectory tasks.
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CaptchaMind: Training CAPTCHA Solvers via Reinforcement Learning with Explicit Reasoning Supervision
Presents CaptchaBench benchmark and CaptchaMind RL solver achieving 82.9% success on benchmark tasks and 71% on real-world CAPTCHAs via explicit reasoning process supervision.
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SE-GA: Memory-Augmented Self-Evolution for GUI Agents
SE-GA combines Test-Time Memory Extension for dynamic context retrieval with Memory-Augmented Self-Evolution training to reach 89.0% on ScreenSpot and 75.8% on AndroidControl-High.
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On Training Large Language Models for Long-Horizon Tasks: An Empirical Study of Horizon Length
Longer action horizons bottleneck LLM agent training through instability, but training with reduced horizons stabilizes learning and enables better generalization to longer horizons.
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Measure Twice, Click Once: Co-evolving Proposer and Visual Critic via Reinforcement Learning for GUI Grounding
A co-evolving proposer-critic RL framework improves GUI grounding accuracy by letting the model critique its own proposals rendered on screenshots.
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HalluClear: Diagnosing, Evaluating and Mitigating Hallucinations in GUI Agents
HalluClear supplies a taxonomy, calibrated evaluation, and lightweight post-training mitigation that reduces hallucinations in GUI agents using only 9K samples.
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From Pixels to Digital Agents: An Empirical Study on the Taxonomy and Technological Trends of Reinforcement Learning Environments
An empirical literature analysis reveals a bifurcation in RL environments into Semantic Prior (LLM-dominated) and Domain-Specific Generalization ecosystems with distinct cognitive fingerprints.
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Securing Computer-Use Agents: A Unified Architecture-Lifecycle Framework for Deployment-Grounded Reliability
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Rethinking Agentic Reinforcement Learning In Large Language Models
The paper reviews conceptual foundations, methodological innovations, effective designs, critical challenges, and future directions for LLM-based Agentic Reinforcement Learning.