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Mobile-Bench-v2: A More Realistic and Comprehensive Benchmark for VLM-based Mobile Agents

arXiv 2505.11891 ↗First posted 17 May 2025cs.CL cs.AIcited by 16

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → GUI and mobile agents

Abstract (arXiv)

VLM-based mobile agents are increasingly popular due to their capabilities to interact with smartphone GUIs and XML-structured texts and to complete daily tasks. However, existing online benchmarks struggle with obtaining stable reward signals due to dynamic environmental changes. Offline benchmarks evaluate the agents through single-path trajectories, which stands in contrast to the inherently multi-solution characteristics of GUI tasks. Additionally, both types of benchmarks fail to assess whether mobile agents can handle noise or engage in proactive interactions due to a lack of noisy apps or overly full instructions during the evaluation process. To address these limitations, we use a slot-based instruction generation method to construct a more realistic and comprehensive benchmark named Mobile-Bench-v2. Mobile-Bench-v2 includes a common task split, with offline multi-path evaluation to assess the agent's ability to obtain step rewards during task execution. It contains a noisy split based on pop-ups and ads apps, and a contaminated split named AITZ-Noise to formulate a real noisy environment. Furthermore, an ambiguous instruction split with preset Q&A interactions is released to evaluate the agent's proactive interaction capabilities. We conduct evaluations on these splits using the single-agent framework AppAgent-v1, the multi-agent framework Mobile-Agent-v2, as well as other mobile agents such as UI-Tars and OS-Atlas. Code and data are available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/xwk123/MobileBench-v2.

Key facts. Cited by 16 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 53 of its 61 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 17 May 2025.

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  10. 2024AMEX: Android Multi-annotation Expo Dataset for Mobile GUI Agents3 Jul
  11. 2024Mobile-Bench: An Evaluation Benchmark for LLM-based Mobile Agents1 Jul
  12. 2024DigiRL: Training In-The-Wild Device-Control Agents with Autonomous Reinforcement Learning14 Jun
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  4. 2024LlamaTouch: A Faithful and Scalable Testbed for Mobile UI Task Automation12 Apr
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  4. 2026AndroTMem: From Interaction Trajectories to Anchored Memory in Long-Horizon GUI Agentscited by 10
  5. 2025MobileIPL: Enhancing Mobile Agents Thinking Process via Iterative Preference Learningcited by 9
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  7. 2026AmbiBench: Benchmarking Mobile GUI Agents Beyond One-Shot Instructions in the Wildcited by 7
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  9. 2026SecAgent: Efficient Mobile GUI Agent with Semantic Contextcited by 4
  10. 2026PhoneBuddy: Training Open Models for Agentic Phone Usecited by 4
  11. 2025MobiBench: Multi-Branch, Modular Benchmark for Mobile GUI Agentscited by 3
  12. 2026MobiFlow: Real-World Mobile Agent Benchmarking through Trajectory Fusioncited by 2
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  3. 2026OS-SPEAR: A Toolkit for the Safety, Performance,Efficiency, and Robustness Analysis of OS Agentscited by 0
  4. 2026BlueLM-GUI Technical Report: A Real-Device-Centric Flywheel for Self-Improving Mobile GUI Agentscited by 0

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