GUI Automation

GUI: Graphical User Interface

Overview

GUI automation studies how AI agents interpret screens or structured interface data, plan actions, and complete tasks in desktop, mobile, and web applications. Common approaches combine vision-language models and visual grounding with planning, action verification, memory and reusable skills, and training from demonstrations, reinforcement learning, or synthetic trajectories. Benchmarks such as OSWorld, AndroidWorld, and WindowsAgentArena test task completion, while newer evaluations probe dynamic interfaces, occlusion, drag interactions, and cross-device workflows. A central challenge is making agents reliable and efficient over long tasks, especially when screenshots, action interfaces, and real-world state changes provide incomplete or misleading feedback.

Latest papers

CardsList

39 papers3 papers in the last four weeks, down 62% on the four weeks before. 0.0% of all new papers.

  1. OS-Wizard: Scaling Computer-Using Agents to Specialized Software via Knowledge-Guided Exploration

    Oct 24, 2026Zhoumianze Liu, Zichen Ding, Bowen Yang +8Computer-Use AgentsGUI Automation

  2. OS-Helix: Unifying GUI Interaction and Code Execution in Native Computer-Using Agents

    Oct 15, 2026Bowen Yang, Kaiming Jin, Zichen Ding +8Computer-Use AgentsGUI Automation

  3. MintAct: A Unified Visual Agent for Digital Environments

    Sep 18, 2026Mingfei Gao, Rui Tian, Haiming Gang +11GUI AutomationTool Use in VLMs

  4. Reflect, Revise, Reuse: Training-Free Skill Evolution for GUI Agents

    Sep 15, 2026Bofan Chen, Boxuan Zhang, Fei Tang +7Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  5. EchoPath: Execution-Level Replayable Memory for GUI Agents

    Sep 15, 2026Yao Zhao, Aditya Shanmugham, Swastik Roy +1Agent MemoryGUI Agents

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

    Sep 9, 2026Zixiang Chen, Yuheng Lu, Zihao Cheng +8Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksGUI Agents

  7. TRACE: Trajectory-robust Admission with Evidence Ordering for Efficient GUI Agents

    Sep 9, 2026Yuhao Wang, Mu Qiao, Xindong Zhang +3KV-Cache CompressionVisual Token Pruning

  8. ARIA - An Agentic Framework for Autonomous Testing of Infotainment Systems

    Sep 4, 2026António Azevedo, Bruno Lima, João Pascoal FariaAutomated Software TestingGUI Automation

  9. Efficient GUI Agents: A Systems Survey of Observation, Memory, Action, and Runtime Optimization

    Sep 2, 2026Bizhe Bai, Jiakang Yuan, Hongming Wu +8GUI AgentsGUI Automation

  10. OmegaUse-SOP: SOP Engineering for Professional Computer Use from Human Demonstrations

    Sep 2, 2026Yixiong Xiao, Lang An, Hucheng Yang +9Computer-Use AgentsGUI Automation

  11. ASIL: Replacing Screenshot-and-Click with Structured State and Semantic Actions

    Aug 27, 2026Rui Xie, Lu ChenComputer-Use AgentsGUI Agents

  12. FigmaTrace: Capturing Creative Nuances in Human Figma Design Workflows

    Aug 20, 2026Darshan Deshpande, Yoshinari Fujinuma, Martyna Markiewicz +5Tool-Using Vision-Language AgentsGUI Agents

  13. ComponentBench: Diagnosing Component-Level Failures in Computer-Use Agents

    Aug 18, 2026Tianchen Guan, Xinlei Lin, Royce Cheng-Yue +2Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksComputer-Use Agents

  14. MAGA: Multi-Platform Self-Fusion of GUI Agents via Structured Action Distillation

    Jul 31, 2026Hang Yan, Zhangxuan GU, Beitong Zhou +5Multi-Teacher Knowledge DistillationLLM Agent Training

  15. Plover: Steering GUI Agents through Plan-Centric Interaction

    Jul 16, 2026Madhumitha Venkatesan, Shicheng Wen, Jiajing Guo +3GUI AgentsLLM Agent Planning

  16. Tactile: Giving Computer-Using Agents Hands and Feet

    Jul 16, 2026Yong Liu, Zhenyi Zhong, Zhanpeng ShiComputer-Use AgentsGUI Agents

  17. KnowAct-GUIClaw: Know Deeply, Act Perfectly, Personal GUI Assistant with Self-Evolving Memory and Skill

    Jul 14, 2026Yunxin Li, Jinchao Li, Shibo Su +7Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  18. LUMOS: A Semantic Operating-System Layer for Accessibility-Grounded AI Agents

    Jun 29, 2026Yogeswar Reddy ThotaComputer-Use AgentsGUI Automation

  19. Skill-Guided Continuation Distillation for GUI Agents

    Jun 17, 2026Zhimin Fan, Hongwei Yu, Yeqing Shen +9Imitation LearningAgent Skill Learning

  20. DragOn: A Benchmark and Dataset for Drag-Based GUI Interactions

    Jun 4, 2026Nathan Bout, Maxime Langevin, Ronan RiochetGUI AgentsGUI Grounding

  21. Benchmarking Living-Screen-Native GUI Agents on Short-Video Platforms

    Jun 3, 2026Jiashu Yao, Heyan Huang, Daiqing Wu +5GUI AgentsAI Agent Benchmarks

  22. STaR-KV: Spatio-Temporal Adaptive Re-weighting for KV Cache Compression in GUI Vision-Language Models

    Jun 1, 2026Yuhang Han, Wenzheng Yang, Yujie Chen +4Vision-Language ModelsKV Caching

  23. UI-KOBE: Knowledge-Oriented Behavior Exploration for Lightweight Graph-Guided GUI Agents

    May 28, 2026Yuxiang Chai, Han Xiao, Xinyu Fu +3Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  24. AutoRPA: Efficient GUI Automation through LLM-Driven Code Synthesis from Interactions

    May 20, 2026Minghao Chen, Xinyi Hu, Zhou Yu +1GUI AgentsLLM-Based Program Synthesis

  25. WinDeskGround: A Benchmark for Robust GUI Grounding in Complex Multi-Window Desktop Environments

    May 13, 2026Haoren Zhao, Tianyi Chen, Zhen WangMultimodal RobustnessGUI Agents

  26. Executable Agentic Memory for GUI Agent

    May 12, 2026Zerui Qin, Sheng Yue, Xingyuan Hua +2GUI AgentsLLM Agent Memory

  27. Benchmarking and Improving GUI Agents in High-Dynamic Environments

    Apr 28, 2026Enqi Liu, Liyuan Pan, Zhi Gao +5GUI AgentsGUI Agent Benchmarks

  28. VLAA-GUI: Knowing When to Stop, Recover, and Search, A Modular Framework for GUI Automation

    Apr 23, 2026Qijun Han, Haoqin Tu, Zijun Wang +11GUI AgentsGUI Automation