ReachAgent: Enhancing Mobile Agent via Page Reaching and Operation (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing mobile AI agents focus on most task-relevant elements at each step, leading to local optimal solutions and ignoring the overall GUI flow. |
| Approach: | They propose a mobile AI agent that breaks tasks into page reaching and operation subtasks and a framework that focuses on improving its task-completion abilities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves IoU accuracy and text accuracy by 7.12% and 7.69% on step-level and 4.72% and 4.63% on task-level compared to the SOTA agent. |
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