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

    Apr 22, 2026Jeonghyeon Kim, Byeongjun Joung, Junwon Lee +3Mobile GUI AutomationComputer-Use Agents

  2. OpenMobile: Building Open Mobile Agents with Task and Trajectory Synthesis

    Apr 16, 2026Kanzhi Cheng, Zehao Li, Zheng Ma +11Synthetic Data GenerationMobile GUI Agents

  3. Mobile GUI Agent Privacy Personalization with Trajectory Induced Preference Optimization

    Apr 13, 2026Zhixin Lin, Jungang Li, Dongliang Xu +5Mobile GUI AgentsPersonalized Language Model Alignment

  4. CORA: Conformal Risk-Controlled Agents for Safeguarded Mobile GUI Automation

    Apr 10, 2026Yushi Feng, Junye Du, Qifan Wang +5AI Agent SafetyMobile GUI Agents

  5. KnowU-Bench: Towards Interactive, Proactive, and Personalized Mobile Agent Evaluation

    Apr 9, 2026Tongbo Chen, Zhengxi Lu, Zhan Xu +13Mobile Agent BenchmarksAI Agent Benchmarks

  6. Do Phone-Use Agents Respect Your Privacy?

    Apr 1, 2026Zhengyang Tang, Ke Ji, Xidong Wang +19Mobile GUI AgentsMobile Agent Benchmarks

  7. PSPA-Bench: A Personalized Benchmark for Smartphone GUI Agent

    Mar 31, 2026Hongyi Nie, Xunyuan Liu, Yudong Bai +4GUI AgentsMobile GUI Agents

  8. AgentRAE: Remote Action Execution through Notification-based Visual Backdoors against Screenshots-based Mobile GUI Agents

    Mar 24, 2026Yutao Luo, Haotian Zhu, Shuchao Pang +4Backdoor AttacksAI Agent Security

  9. MANA: Towards Efficient Mobile Ad Detection via Multimodal Agentic UI Navigation

    Mar 20, 2026Yizhe Zhao, Yongjian Fu, Zihao Feng +4Online AdvertisingMobile GUI Agents

  10. AndroTMem: From Interaction Trajectories to Anchored Memory in Long-Horizon GUI Agents

    Mar 19, 2026Yibo Shi, Jungang Li, Linghao Zhang +25Agent MemoryMemory-Augmented Agents

  11. SecAgent: Efficient Mobile GUI Agent with Semantic Context

    Mar 9, 2026Yiping Xie, Song Chen, Jingxuan Xing +7Mobile GUI AutomationGUI Agents

  12. Generalization in Online Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Agents

    Mar 8, 2026Li Gu, Zihuan Jiang, Zhixiang Chi +5RL for GUI AgentsMobile GUI Agents

  13. MobiFlow: Real-World Mobile Agent Benchmarking through Trajectory Fusion

    Feb 28, 2026Yunfei Feng, Xi Zhao, Cheng Zhang +5Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksMobile Agent Benchmarks

  14. CoME: Empowering Channel-of-Mobile-Experts with Informative Hybrid-Capabilities Reasoning

    Feb 27, 2026Yuxuan Liu, Weikai Xu, Kun Huang +9Mobile GUI AgentsAgentic Reasoning

  15. ClawMobile: Rethinking Smartphone-Native Agentic Systems

    Feb 26, 2026Hongchao Du, Shangyu Wu, Qiao Li +4Mobile GUI AgentsLLM Agent Orchestration

  16. Turing Test on Screen: A Benchmark for Mobile GUI Agent Humanization

    Feb 24, 2026Jiachen Zhu, Lingyu Yang, Rong Shan +6Mobile GUI AgentsAI Agent Benchmarks

  17. Mind the Gap: Action Rebinding Attacks against Android GUI Agents

    Jan 18, 2026Yi Qian, Kunwei Qian, Xingbang He +7Mobile GUI AutomationAdversarial Attacks

  18. MobileDreamer: Generative Sketch World Model for GUI Agent

    Jan 7, 2026Yilin Cao, Yufeng Zhong, Zhixiong Zeng +6Mobile GUI AutomationWorld Model Learning

  19. MobileWorldBench: Towards Semantic World Modeling For Mobile Agents

    Dec 16, 2025Shufan Li, Konstantinos Kallidromitis, Akash Gokul +3World ModelsMobile GUI Agents

  20. OpenPhone: Mobile Agentic Foundation Models

    Oct 24, 2025Yangqin Jiang, Chao HuangOn-Device Language Model InferenceGUI Agents

  21. Agent+P: Guiding UI Agents via Symbolic Planning

    Oct 7, 2025Shang Ma, Xusheng Xiao, Yanfang YeGUI AgentsMobile GUI Agents