LearnAct: Few-Shot Mobile GUI Agent with a Unified Demonstration Benchmark
On the map: LLM agents and tool use → GUI and mobile agents
Abstract (arXiv)
Mobile GUI agents show promise in automating tasks but face generalization challenges in diverse real-world scenarios. Traditional approaches using pre-training or fine-tuning with massive datasets struggle with the diversity of mobile applications and user-specific tasks. We propose enhancing mobile GUI agent capabilities through human demonstrations, focusing on improving performance in unseen scenarios rather than pursuing universal generalization through larger datasets. To realize this paradigm, we introduce LearnGUI, the first comprehensive dataset specifically designed for studying demonstration-based learning in mobile GUI agents, comprising 2,252 offline tasks and 101 online tasks with high-quality human demonstrations. We further develop LearnAct, a sophisticated multi-agent framework that automatically extracts knowledge from demonstrations to enhance task completion. This framework integrates three specialized agents: DemoParser for knowledge extraction, KnowSeeker for relevant knowledge retrieval, and ActExecutor for demonstration-enhanced task execution. Our experimental results show significant performance gains in both offline and online evaluations. In offline assessments, a single demonstration improves model performance, increasing Gemini-1.5-Pro's accuracy from 19.3% to 51.7%. In online evaluations, our framework enhances UI-TARS-7B-SFT's task success rate from 18.1% to 32.8%. LearnAct framework and LearnGUI benchmark establish demonstration-based learning as a promising direction for more adaptable, personalized, and deployable mobile GUI agents.
Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in GUI and mobile agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 24 of its 43 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 Apr 2025.
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24 of 43 references.
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- 2025Mobile-Agent-E: Self-Evolving Mobile Assistant for Complex Tasks20 Jan
- 2024Large Language Model-Brained GUI Agents: A Survey27 Nov
- 2024Foundations and Recent Trends in Multimodal Mobile Agents: A Survey4 Nov
- 2024AndroidLab: Training and Systematic Benchmarking of Android Autonomous Agents31 Oct
- 2024TinyClick: Single-Turn Agent for Empowering GUI Automation9 Oct
- 2024AMEX: Android Multi-annotation Expo Dataset for Mobile GUI Agents3 Jul
- 2024Mobile-Agent-v2: Mobile Device Operation Assistant with Effective Navigation via Multi-Agent Collaboration3 Jun
- 2024Android in the Zoo: Chain-of-Action-Thought for GUI Agents5 Mar
- 2024Mobile-Agent: Autonomous Multi-Modal Mobile Device Agent with Visual Perception29 Jan
- 2024SeeClick: Harnessing GUI Grounding for Advanced Visual GUI Agents17 Jan
- 2023AppAgent: Multimodal Agents as Smartphone Users21 Dec
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- 2024Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of contextcited by 3,224
- 2023Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Modelscited by 3,211
- 2024Aguvis: Unified Pure Vision Agents for Autonomous GUI Interactioncited by 278
- 2024ShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agentcited by 232
- 2024OmniParser for Pure Vision Based GUI Agentcited by 198
- 2024GUIOdyssey: A Comprehensive Dataset for Cross-App GUI Navigation on Mobile Devicescited by 194
- 2020Mapping Natural Language Instructions to Mobile UI Action Sequencescited by 181
- 2021UIBert: Learning Generic Multimodal Representations for UI Understandingcited by 95
- 2023DroidBot-GPT: GPT-powered UI Automation for Androidcited by 47
- 2021Mobile App Tasks with Iterative Feedback (MoTIF): Addressing Task Feasibility in Interactive Visual Environmentscited by 28
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