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MobileUse: A GUI Agent with Hierarchical Reflection for Autonomous Mobile Operation

arXiv 2507.16853 ↗First posted 21 Jul 2025cs.RO cs.MAcited by 9

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled the development of mobile agents that can understand visual inputs and follow user instructions, unlocking new possibilities for automating complex tasks on mobile devices. However, applying these models to real-world mobile scenarios remains a significant challenge due to the long-horizon task execution, difficulty in error recovery, and the cold-start problem in unfamiliar environments. To address these challenges, we propose MobileUse, a GUI agent designed for robust and adaptive mobile task execution. To improve resilience in long-horizon tasks and dynamic environments, we introduce a hierarchical reflection architecture that enables the agent to self-monitor, detect, and recover from errors across multiple temporal scales-ranging from individual actions to overall task completion-while maintaining efficiency through a reflection-on-demand strategy. To tackle cold-start issues, we further introduce a proactive exploration module, which enriches the agent's understanding of the environment through self-planned exploration. Evaluations on AndroidWorld and AndroidLab benchmarks demonstrate that MobileUse establishes new state-of-the-art performance, achieving success rates of 62.9% and 44.2%, respectively. To facilitate real-world applications, we release an out-of-the-box toolkit for automated task execution on physical mobile devices, which is available at https://github.com/MadeAgents/mobile-use.

Key facts. Cited by 9 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 29 of its 39 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 21 Jul 2025.

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29 of 39 references.

Closest ancestors · 12

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  1. 2025AndroidGen: Building an Android Language Agent under Data Scarcity27 Apr
  2. 2025Agent S2: A Compositional Generalist-Specialist Framework for Computer Use Agents1 Apr
  3. 2025Advancing Mobile GUI Agents: A Verifier-Driven Approach to Practical Deployment20 Mar
  4. 2025UI-TARS: Pioneering Automated GUI Interaction with Native Agents21 Jan
  5. 2025Mobile-Agent-E: Self-Evolving Mobile Assistant for Complex Tasks20 Jan
  6. 2025InfiGUIAgent: A Multimodal Generalist GUI Agent with Native Reasoning and Reflection8 Jan
  7. 2024AndroidLab: Training and Systematic Benchmarking of Android Autonomous Agents31 Oct
  8. 2024OS-ATLAS: A Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents30 Oct
  9. 2024Agent S: An Open Agentic Framework that Uses Computers Like a Human10 Oct
  10. 2024Navigating the Digital World as Humans Do: Universal Visual Grounding for GUI Agents7 Oct
  11. 2024Mobile-Agent-v2: Mobile Device Operation Assistant with Effective Navigation via Multi-Agent Collaboration3 Jun
  12. 2023AppAgent: Multimodal Agents as Smartphone Users21 Dec

Other references · 17

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  4. 2024GPT-4o System Cardcited by 4,588
  5. 2023AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversationcited by 1,988
  6. 2023CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Societycited by 1,395
  7. 2024Aguvis: Unified Pure Vision Agents for Autonomous GUI Interactioncited by 278
  8. 2024Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Taskscited by 232
  9. 2024ShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agentcited by 232
  10. 2019Gradio: Hassle-Free Sharing and Testing of ML Models in the Wildcited by 178
  11. 2024Aria-UI: Visual Grounding for GUI Instructionscited by 140
  12. 2023BLIVA: A Simple Multimodal LLM for Better Handling of Text-Rich Visual Questionscited by 125
5 more
  1. 2024Ferret-UI 2: Mastering Universal User Interface Understanding Across Platformscited by 51
  2. 2023FuseCap: Leveraging Large Language Models for Enriched Fused Image Captionscited by 33
  3. 2023Improving Image Captioning Descriptiveness by Ranking and LLM-based Fusioncited by 21
  4. 2025MobileSteward: Integrating Multiple App-Oriented Agents with Self-Evolution to Automate Cross-App Instructionscited by 16
  5. 2025AppVLM: A Lightweight Vision Language Model for Online App Controlcited by 15

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Citing papers per year: 2025: 3; 2026: 6.

9 papers.

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  1. 2025Agent-SAMA: State-Aware Mobile Assistant
  2. 2025ReInAgent: A Context-Aware GUI Agent Enabling Human-in-the-Loop Mobile Task Navigation
  3. 2026APPSim-Bench: Bridging Real-world Apps and Reproducible Evaluation for Mobile GUI Agents
  4. 2026PalmClaw: A Native On-Device Agent Framework for Mobile Phones
  5. 2026StepReflect: Structured UI Transition Reflection for Mobile GUI Agents
  6. 2024AndroidWorld: A Dynamic Benchmarking Environment for Autonomous Agents
  7. 2024MobA: Multifaceted Memory-Enhanced Adaptive Planning for Efficient Mobile Task Automation
  8. 2026OpenMobile: Building Open Mobile Agents with Task and Trajectory Synthesis