UI-Mem: Self-Evolving Experience Memory for Online Reinforcement Learning in Mobile GUI Agents
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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Citing papers per year: 2026: 11.
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- 2026Cross-Tokenizer On-Policy Distillation via Byte-Prefix Marginalization24 Jul 2026
- 2026What Memory Do GUI Agents Really Need? From Passive Records to Active Task-Driving States30 Jun 2026
- 2026UI-KOBE: Knowledge-Oriented Behavior Exploration for Lightweight Graph-Guided GUI Agents28 May 2026
- 2026Mem-π: Adaptive Memory through Learning When and What to Generate20 May 2026
- 2026MementoGUI: Learning Agentic Multimodal Memory Control for Long-Horizon GUI Agents18 May 2026
- 2026SOLAR-RL: Semi-Online Long-horizon Assignment Reinforcement Learning24 Apr 2026
- 2026Co-Evolving LLM Decision and Skill Bank Agents for Long-Horizon Tasks22 Apr 2026
- 2026Skill-SD: Skill-Conditioned Self-Distillation for Multi-turn LLM Agents12 Apr 2026
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