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Mirage-1: Augmenting and Updating GUI Agent with Hierarchical Multimodal Skills

arXiv 2506.10387 ↗First posted 12 Jun 2025cs.AIcited by 19

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Abstract (arXiv)

Recent efforts to leverage the Multi-modal Large Language Model (MLLM) as GUI agents have yielded promising outcomes. However, these agents still struggle with long-horizon tasks in online environments, primarily due to insufficient knowledge and the inherent gap between offline and online domains. In this paper, inspired by how humans generalize knowledge in open-ended environments, we propose a Hierarchical Multimodal Skills (HMS) module to tackle the issue of insufficient knowledge. It progressively abstracts trajectories into execution skills, core skills, and ultimately meta-skills, providing a hierarchical knowledge structure for long-horizon task planning. To bridge the domain gap, we propose the Skill-Augmented Monte Carlo Tree Search (SA-MCTS) algorithm, which efficiently leverages skills acquired in offline environments to reduce the action search space during online tree exploration. Building on HMS, we propose Mirage-1, a multimodal, cross-platform, plug-and-play GUI agent. To validate the performance of Mirage-1 in real-world long-horizon scenarios, we constructed a new benchmark, AndroidLH. Experimental results show that Mirage-1 outperforms previous agents by 32%, 19%, 15%, and 79% on AndroidWorld, MobileMiniWob++, Mind2Web-Live, and AndroidLH, respectively. Project page: https://cybertronagent.github.io/Mirage-1.github.io/

Key facts. Cited by 19 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Embodied and 3D vision-language models, one of 16 directions in Multimodal LLMs / vision-language models. Builds on 44 of its 53 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 12 Jun 2025.

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  6. 2026SkillRubric: Co-Evolving Actor Guidance and Evaluator Rubrics for Multimodal Agentscited by 0
  7. 2026MMSkillRisk: Can Agents Stay Safe When Multimodal Skills Become Traps?cited by 0

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