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UI-Mem: Self-Evolving Experience Memory for Online Reinforcement Learning in Mobile GUI Agents

arXiv 2602.05832 ↗First posted 5 Feb 2026cs.CVcited by 11

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Online Reinforcement Learning (RL) offers a promising paradigm for enhancing GUI agents through direct environment interaction. However, its effectiveness is severely hindered by inefficient credit assignment in long-horizon tasks and repetitive errors across tasks due to the lack of experience transfer. To address these challenges, we propose UI-Mem, a novel framework that enhances GUI online RL with a Hierarchical Experience Memory. Unlike traditional replay buffers, our memory accumulates structured knowledge, including high-level workflows, subtask skills, and failure patterns. These experiences are stored as parameterized templates that enable cross-task and cross-application transfer. To effectively integrate memory guidance into online RL, we introduce Stratified Group Sampling, which injects varying levels of guidance across trajectories within each rollout group to maintain outcome diversity, driving the unguided policy toward internalizing guided behaviors. Furthermore, a Self-Evolving Loop continuously abstracts novel strategies and errors to keep the memory aligned with the agent's evolving policy. Experiments on online GUI benchmarks demonstrate that UI-Mem significantly outperforms traditional RL baselines and static reuse strategies, with strong generalization to unseen applications. Project page: https://ui-mem.github.io

Key facts. Cited by 11 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 32 of its 37 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 5 Feb 2026.

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32 of 37 references.

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  10. 2025InfiGUI-R1: Advancing Multimodal GUI Agents from Reactive Actors to Deliberative Reasoners19 Apr
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  12. 2024AndroidLab: Training and Systematic Benchmarking of Android Autonomous Agents31 Oct
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  1. 2026STAMP: Training Explicit Memory for Mobile GUI Agents in Controllable and Scalable Virtual Environments
  2. 2025MobileGUI-RL: Advancing Mobile GUI Agent through Reinforcement Learning in Online Environment
  3. 2026WM-R1: Training GUI Agents to Reason and leverage World Models with Reinforcement Learning
  4. 2026Mem-W: Latent Memory-Native GUI Agents
  5. 2026SE-GA: Memory-Augmented Self-Evolution for GUI Agents
  6. 2026Darwin Mobile Agent: A Roadmap for Self-Evolution
  7. 2026GUI Agents with Reinforcement Learning: Toward Digital Inhabitants
  8. 2026OS-Themis: A Scalable Critic Framework for Generalist GUI Rewards