Mobile GUI Agents

GUI: Graphical User Interface

Overview

Mobile GUI agents interpret screenshots and accessibility trees, then tap, type, and navigate apps to complete user goals, often across multiple steps and applications. Common approaches combine vision-language models with structured planning, memory and reusable skills, reinforcement learning, or tools that speed up routine actions; simulation and real-device training provide interaction data and feedback. Benchmarks increasingly test long workflows, unseen apps, personalization, robustness, and real-world execution, not just task completion in familiar interfaces. Agents are becoming more capable, but generalization and reliability remain uneven, while prompt injection, privacy, and consequential actions make safe behavior a central open challenge.

Latest papers

CardsList

84 papers12 papers in the last four weeks, up 50% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. GUI-JEPA: Candidate-Conditioned JEPA Latents as a Fast Action Policy for Mobile GUI Agents

    Oct 27, 2026Bingchao Wang, Yongcheng Jing, Shunyu Liu +5Mobile GUI AgentsMobile GUI Automation

  2. Reuse, Rewrite, or Reject: Evidence-Constrained Trace Reuse for Repeated Mobile GUI Control

    Oct 22, 2026Bingyu Bai, Cheng Zhang, Erhu FengMobile GUI AgentsLLM Agent Efficiency

  3. Diagnosing Personalization Failures in Mobile GUI Agents

    Oct 22, 2026Zhixin Lin, Dongliang Xu, Jungang Li +6GUI AgentsMobile GUI Agents

  4. Tandem: Serving Hybrid Linear-Attention GUI Agents on Mobile NPUs

    Oct 19, 2026Zhuomin Chen, Jingchao Ni, Xu Zheng +4On-Device Language Model InferenceMobile GUI Agents

  5. How GUI Agents Fail: GraceBench for Execution Stability Diagnosis

    Oct 14, 2026Ridong Zhang, Shuxian Liang, Chaoqun Wan +2Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksGUI Agents

  6. OpenMobile-2: Building Versatile Mobile Agents with Scalable Environments and App-Native Tools

    Oct 9, 2026Chenyang Yan, Yingying Zhang, Kanzhi Cheng +21Mobile Agent BenchmarksMobile GUI Agents

  7. DeltaReplay: Task-Relative Memory Reuse for Mobile GUI Agents

    Oct 8, 2026Yudong Bai, Yihong Chen, Quanming Yao +1Mobile GUI AgentsAgent Memory Management

  8. DIBench: Benchmarking Decision Integrity of GUI-based Mobile Agents Under Deceptive Injections

    Sep 29, 2026Li Hu, Kanghua Mo, Yingbin Jin +2AI Agent EvaluationAI Agent Safety Benchmarks

  9. PhoneCLI: From App Interfaces to Callable Commands for Mobile Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Yangqin Jiang, Lingrui Xu, Chao HuangMobile GUI AutomationMobile GUI Agents

  10. PastForward: Faster On-Device GUI Agents via Computational Experience Reuse

    Sep 26, 2026Taehwan Park, Changmin Lee, Hayeon Lee +1Mobile GUI AgentsOn-Device Inference

  11. From Tapping to Hopping: Augmenting Mobile GUI Agents with App-Native Deeplinks

    Sep 25, 2026Yuchen Sun, Chenglin Cai, Gongjie Zhang +8Mobile GUI Agents

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

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

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

    Sep 7, 2026Jintian Feng, Long Chen, Xiao Yu +7Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  14. ElderBench: Benchmarking Autonomous Mobile Agents for Older Adults

    Sep 4, 2026Weide Zhan, Qumu Shaqu, Yuanqing Liu +6Mobile GUI AutomationComputer-Use Agent Benchmarks

  15. UI-Venus-2 Technical Report

    Aug 27, 2026Venus Team, Zhuohan Cai, Haoxing Chen +28GUI AgentsMultimodal Agents

  16. Are Android GUI Agents Robust Against Runtime Anomalies? AnTrap: Evaluating Agents in Dynamic Adversarial Environments

    Aug 25, 2026Guo Gan, Yilun Zhao, Cong Chen +5Mobile GUI AgentsAdversarial Robustness

  17. CausalCache: Conditional High-Fidelity Restoration for Long-Horizon GUI Agents

    Aug 23, 2026Jiaxuan Luo, Zhanfeng Liao, Jiayao Teng +1Computer-Use AgentsAgent Memory Management

  18. Benchmarking General Mobile Assistants in Challenging Real-World Scenarios

    Aug 21, 2026Yiqi Zhu, Feiyu Gao, Jiaxing Fan +7Mobile Agent BenchmarksAI Agent Evaluation

  19. Act2Intention: A Benchmark For Developing Active Mobile Agents Through Inferring User Intention from GUI Actions

    Aug 14, 2026Xiaokai Yan, Jingtao Ding, Yong Li +1Mobile GUI AgentsAgentic AI

  20. Benchmarking LLM Judges for Mobile Agent Evaluation

    Aug 11, 2026Ziqiang Wang, Li Gu, Zhixiang Chi +4LLM-as-a-JudgeMobile Agent Benchmarks

  21. Not an A11y: How Android Accessibility Exposes Mobile AI Agents to Indirect Prompt Injection

    Aug 9, 2026Rahul Deivasigamani, Sayeda Faatin Alvi, Derqui Andrea +2AI Agent SecurityLLM Agent Security