LearnAct: Few-Shot Mobile GUI Agent with a Unified Demonstration Benchmark (2026.findings-acl)
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Guangyi Liu, Pengxiang Zhao, Liang Liu, Zhiming Chen, Yuxiang Chai, Yaozhen Liang, WenHao Wang, Siheng Chen, Zhengxi Lu, Shuai Ren, Hao Wang, Shibo He, Yong Liu, Wenchao Meng
| Challenge: | Mobile GUI agents show promise in automating tasks but face significant generalization challenges in long-tail scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark framework for mobile GUI agents that measures the performance of GUI agents by analyzing their performance. |
| Outcome: | The LearnGUI benchmark outperforms existing methods in offline and online evaluations and demonstrates consistent gains across model architectures. |
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