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MAGNET: Towards Adaptive GUI Agents with Memory-Driven Knowledge Evolution

arXiv 2601.19199 ↗First posted 27 Jan 2026cs.AIcited by 8

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Mobile GUI agents powered by large foundation models enable autonomous task execution, but frequent updates altering UI appearance and reorganizing workflows cause agents trained on historical data to fail. Despite surface changes, functional semantics and task intents remain fundamentally stable. Building on this insight, we introduce MAGNET, a memory-driven adaptive agent framework with dual-level memory: stationary memory linking diverse visual features to stable functional semantics for robust action grounding and procedural memory capturing stable task intents across varying workflows. We propose a dynamic memory evolution mechanism that continuously refines both memories by prioritizing frequently accessed knowledge. Online benchmark AndroidWorld evaluations show substantial improvements over baselines, while offline benchmarks confirm consistent gains under distribution shifts. These results validate that leveraging stable structures across interface changes improves agent performance and generalization in evolving software environments.

Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in GUI and mobile agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 29 of its 43 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 27 Jan 2026.

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29 of 43 references.

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  2. 2025Chain-of-Memory: Enhancing GUI Agents for Cross-Application Navigation22 Jun
  3. 2025GUI-Robust: A Comprehensive Dataset for Testing GUI Agent Robustness in Real-World Anomalies17 Jun
  4. 2025InfiGUI-R1: Advancing Multimodal GUI Agents from Reactive Actors to Deliberative Reasoners19 Apr
  5. 2025GUI-R1 : A Generalist R1-Style Vision-Language Action Model For GUI Agents14 Apr
  6. 2025Mobile-Agent-E: Self-Evolving Mobile Assistant for Complex Tasks20 Jan
  7. 2024AppAgent v2: Advanced Agent for Flexible Mobile Interactions5 Aug
  8. 2024AMEX: Android Multi-annotation Expo Dataset for Mobile GUI Agents3 Jul
  9. 2024Android in the Zoo: Chain-of-Action-Thought for GUI Agents5 Mar
  10. 2024OS-Copilot: Towards Generalist Computer Agents with Self-Improvement12 Feb
  11. 2024Mobile-Agent: Autonomous Multi-Modal Mobile Device Agent with Visual Perception29 Jan
  12. 2024SeeClick: Harnessing GUI Grounding for Advanced Visual GUI Agents17 Jan
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  1. 2023AppAgent: Multimodal Agents as Smartphone Users21 Dec

Other references · 16

  1. 2023Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behaviorcited by 3,500
  2. 2023MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systemscited by 1,295
  3. 2023Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Webcited by 1,210
  4. 2025A-MEM: Agentic Memory for LLM Agentscited by 1,000
  5. 2023Visual ChatGPT: Talking, Drawing and Editing with Visual Foundation Modelscited by 659
  6. 2024GPT-4V(ision) is a Generalist Web Agent, if Groundedcited by 547
  7. 2023MM-REACT: Prompting ChatGPT for Multimodal Reasoning and Actioncited by 511
  8. 2024AndroidWorld: A Dynamic Benchmarking Environment for Autonomous Agentscited by 450
  9. 2024Aguvis: Unified Pure Vision Agents for Autonomous GUI Interactioncited by 271
  10. 2024VideoAgent: A Memory-augmented Multimodal Agent for Video Understandingcited by 224
  11. 2024GUIOdyssey: A Comprehensive Dataset for Cross-App GUI Navigation on Mobile Devicescited by 190
  12. 2024GenArtist: Multimodal LLM as an Agent for Unified Image Generation and Editingcited by 132
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  4. 2025Optimus-3: Dual-Router Aligned Mixture-of-Experts Agent with Dual-Granularity Reasoning-Aware Policy Optimizationcited by 12

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