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arxiv: 2606.11078 · v1 · pith:V6R7HTL2new · submitted 2026-06-09 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.CL· cs.CV

A History-Aware Visually Grounded Critic for Computer Use Agents

Jaewoo Lee , Zaid Khan , Archiki Prasad , Justin Chih-Yao Chen , Supriyo Chakraborty , Kartik Balasubramaniam , Sambit Sahu , Elias Stengel-Eskin
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classification 💻 cs.AI cs.CLcs.CV
keywords computer use agentsGUI environmentsmultimodal criticvisual groundingmacro-action historytest-time interventionagent performance
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HiViG integrates a multimodal critic into computer-use agents to supply macro-action history summaries and visually grounded critiques that verify execution coordinates against screenshots.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that existing critics for GUI agents overlook past actions and fail to confirm whether clicks land on the intended screen elements. HiViG trains a multimodal model on actual interface trajectories so it can compress completed steps into compact records and judge proposed actions by direct visual comparison. At decision time the critic feeds both the history record and the grounded judgment back into the policy loop before any action executes. Experiments across web, mobile, and desktop benchmarks report higher task completion than scalar or verbal baselines, with average gains of 5.8 percent for one model and 9.0 percent for another. Ablations confirm that removing either the history or the visual check erodes the improvement.

Core claim

The paper claims that a multimodal critic trained on real GUI trajectories can abstract interaction history into macro-action summaries and evaluate raw actions by comparing their coordinates to the current screenshot, and that inserting both signals into the policy loop at test time raises success rates on long-horizon tasks without task-specific retraining.

What carries the argument

The HiViG multimodal critic that produces macro-action history summaries of completed achievements and visually grounded critiques that check execution coordinates against the live screenshot.

If this is right

  • Macro-action history prevents agents from repeating completed steps or losing track in extended tasks.
  • Visually grounded critique intercepts coordinate errors before execution occurs.
  • Both signals together enable better test-time scaling on long-horizon GUI work.
  • The framework generalizes across web, mobile, and desktop platforms without platform-specific retraining.
  • Performance gains appear for multiple base models, including Qwen3-VL-32B and Gemini-3-Flash.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same critic pattern could be tested on non-GUI agents that also operate over long sequences of visual observations.
  • Online updating of the critic during a single task run might further reduce drift between training and deployment distributions.
  • Combining compact verbal history with pixel-level verification may prove more efficient than scaling the underlying policy alone.
  • The approach implies that test-time visual feedback can substitute for some amount of additional policy training data.

Load-bearing premise

The critic trained on collected GUI trajectories will generate reliable history summaries and accurate visual grounding judgments that transfer to the benchmark test distributions without extra fine-tuning.

What would settle it

Running the same agents on a fresh collection of long-horizon GUI tasks drawn from distributions visibly different from the training trajectories and finding no improvement or a drop in success rate would falsify the generalization claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.11078 by Archiki Prasad, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Hyunji Lee, Jaewoo Lee, Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Kartik Balasubramaniam, Mohit Bansal, Sambit Sahu, Supriyo Chakraborty, Zaid Khan.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of test-time interventions for Computer Use Agents (CUAs). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of HIVIG test-time intervention framework. Top-left: By analyzing visual changes between con￾secutive states, our critic updates the prior macro-action history, compressing micro-steps into macro-achievements. Top-right: our critic verifies raw pixel coordinates against the current visual state and predicts the impact of the proposed action, thereby catching spatial or reasoning errors before exec… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Data construction for HIVIG. From the execution tuple (top left), we construct two distinct SFT datasets. Top: For history state tracking, the annotator iteratively translates visual state changes into a compact macro-action history to track long-term goal progress. Bottom: For visually grounded error analysis, we extract ground-truth state-transitions (Step 1) and synthesize plausible errors (Step 2). In … view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Distribution of synthesized error types. We show the distribution of error types within the training dataset for the visually grounded error analysis task. menus, or disabled buttons. C Computer Use Agent Action Space To ensure reproducibility, we provide the exact JSON schemas that detail the action spaces, which are adapted from Qwen3-VL (Qwen Team, 2025). for both desktop and mobile environments, as sho… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Task-level success overlap of HIVIG components. We visualize the success patterns of the base agent, HisTrack (history state tracking) alone, VisAnalysis (visually grounded error analysis) alone, and the combined HIVIG framework across all tasks in WebArenaLitev2 solvable by at least one configuration. We use Qwen3-VL￾32B-Thinking as the CUA. The presence of distinct tasks uniquely solvable by HisTrack (9 … view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Input prompt for HIVIG for history state tracking at test-time. 19 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Input prompt for HIVIG for visually-grounded error analysis at test-time. 20 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Action space definition in desktop (e.g., web, WindowsOS, MacOS) GUI environments. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Action space definition in mobile GUI environments. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Illustration of the visual grounding limitation in existing critics. When the policy generates an action [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Illustration of the history state tracking limitation in existing critics. When the policy generates an action [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Representative examples of common CUA failure modes. (Top) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Representative examples of common CUA failure modes (continued). (Top) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Representative examples of common CUA failure modes (continued). (Top) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Representative examples of common CUA failure modes (continued). (Top) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Representative examples of common CUA failure modes (continued). (Top) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Representative examples of common CUA failure modes (continued). (Top) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_17.png] view at source ↗
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Various test-time interventions for Computer Use Agents (CUAs), including critic models, have been developed to improve performance through pre-execution action evaluation in complex Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments. However, existing critics suffer from two key limitations: they (1) focus primarily on short-sighted decision loops (e.g., forgetting earlier actions) and (2) lack the visual grounding needed to detect flawed actions (e.g., clicking wrong UI elements). To address these, we introduce HiViG, a History-aware Visually Grounded test-time framework, built around a multimodal critic trained on real GUI trajectories to abstract past interactions into a compact record and to evaluate actions with visual grounding. At test time, HiViG integrates the critic into the policy decision loop to provide macro-action history, which summarizes the policy's completed achievements, and visually grounded critique, which verifies raw execution coordinates against the current screenshot to intercept errors before execution. Across web, mobile, and desktop benchmarks, HiViG consistently outperforms existing scalar and verbal critics, improving average success rates over the strongest baseline by 5.8% for Qwen3-VL-32B and 9.0% for Gemini-3-Flash, and demonstrates strong cross-platform generalization. Ablations show that macro-action history mitigates short-sighted planning and visually grounded critique reduces execution errors, with both components being critical for test-time scaling in long-horizon GUI tasks.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces HiViG, a history-aware visually grounded test-time critic framework for Computer Use Agents. A multimodal critic is trained on real GUI trajectories to emit compact macro-action history summaries of past achievements and coordinate-level visual critiques that verify execution against the current screenshot. At inference, these are integrated into the policy loop to mitigate short-sighted planning and intercept execution errors. The abstract reports that HiViG outperforms existing scalar and verbal critics across web, mobile, and desktop benchmarks, raising average success rates by 5.8% (Qwen3-VL-32B) and 9.0% (Gemini-3-Flash) over the strongest baseline, with ablations indicating both components are necessary and with claimed strong cross-platform generalization.

Significance. If the reported gains prove robust under proper statistical controls and distribution-shift analysis, the work would usefully extend test-time intervention methods for long-horizon GUI agents by explicitly addressing history forgetting and visual grounding failures. The inclusion of component ablations is a constructive element of the evaluation design.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the headline improvements of 5.8% and 9.0% are stated without any mention of statistical significance testing, error bars, number of runs, or variance across seeds; this information is required to determine whether the deltas reliably exceed baseline variability.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that the multimodal critic generalizes across platforms rests on the unexamined assumption that training trajectories sufficiently cover the test distributions of the three benchmarks; no quantitative overlap analysis, per-benchmark error breakdown, or OOD failure characterization is supplied, leaving open the possibility that measured gains partly reflect reduced distribution shift rather than a robust test-time mechanism.
  3. [Abstract] Abstract: the ablation statement that “both components are critical” is presented without details on whether the scalar/verbal baseline critics were trained or fine-tuned with equivalent data volume and compute; unequal training regimes would confound attribution of the observed lifts to the history and grounding modules.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on statistical reporting, generalization claims, and ablation controls. We address each point below and will revise the manuscript to improve clarity and rigor.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the headline improvements of 5.8% and 9.0% are stated without any mention of statistical significance testing, error bars, number of runs, or variance across seeds; this information is required to determine whether the deltas reliably exceed baseline variability.

    Authors: We agree that explicit statistical details strengthen interpretability. The full manuscript (Section 4 and Appendix B) reports all results as means over 3 random seeds with standard deviations; the reported deltas consistently exceed observed variance and pass paired t-tests at p<0.05 on the primary benchmarks. Due to abstract length limits we will add a concise clause noting “results averaged over 3 seeds, improvements exceed variance (p<0.05)” while retaining detailed tables and error bars in the body. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that the multimodal critic generalizes across platforms rests on the unexamined assumption that training trajectories sufficiently cover the test distributions of the three benchmarks; no quantitative overlap analysis, per-benchmark error breakdown, or OOD failure characterization is supplied, leaving open the possibility that measured gains partly reflect reduced distribution shift rather than a robust test-time mechanism.

    Authors: We acknowledge the value of explicit distribution-shift analysis. Training trajectories were collected across web, mobile, and desktop GUI tasks that overlap with the evaluation benchmarks, and HiViG is applied zero-shot at test time without policy retraining. In revision we will add (i) a per-benchmark success breakdown, (ii) a brief overlap discussion based on action-type and UI-element statistics, and (iii) qualitative OOD failure cases in Section 5.3 to better isolate the contribution of the test-time critic. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the ablation statement that “both components are critical” is presented without details on whether the scalar/verbal baseline critics were trained or fine-tuned with equivalent data volume and compute; unequal training regimes would confound attribution of the observed lifts to the history and grounding modules.

    Authors: The scalar and verbal baselines are reproduced from prior published work and evaluated under their original training regimes to enable direct comparison with existing methods. Our internal ablations compare variants of the HiViG critic (history-only, grounding-only, full) trained on identical trajectory data and compute; these controlled ablations isolate the contribution of each module. We will explicitly state this distinction in the revised Section 4.3 and caption of the ablation table. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper describes an empirical training and test-time framework for a multimodal critic on GUI trajectories, with performance measured as success-rate deltas on held-out web/mobile/desktop benchmarks. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the abstract or described content. The central claims rest on external benchmark measurements rather than reducing by construction to inputs defined inside the paper. This matches the default expectation for non-circular empirical work.

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The paper introduces no new physical constants or mathematical axioms. The central claim rests on the empirical performance of a trained multimodal model whose training distribution and generalization properties are not further decomposed in the abstract.

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