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AmbiBench: Benchmarking Mobile GUI Agents Beyond One-Shot Instructions in the Wild

arXiv 2602.11750 ↗First posted 12 Feb 2026cs.SE cs.AI cs.HCcited by 7

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Benchmarks are paramount for gauging progress in the domain of Mobile GUI Agents. In practical scenarios, users frequently fail to articulate precise directives containing full task details at the onset, and their expressions are typically ambiguous. Consequently, agents are required to converge on the user's true intent via active clarification and interaction during execution. However, existing benchmarks predominantly operate under the idealized assumption that user-issued instructions are complete and unequivocal. This paradigm focuses exclusively on assessing single-turn execution while overlooking the alignment capability of the agent. To address this limitation, we introduce AmbiBench, the first benchmark incorporating a taxonomy of instruction clarity to shift evaluation from unidirectional instruction following to bidirectional intent alignment. Grounded in Cognitive Gap theory, we propose a taxonomy of four clarity levels: Detailed, Standard, Incomplete, and Ambiguous. We construct a rigorous dataset of 240 ecologically valid tasks across 25 applications, subject to strict review protocols. Furthermore, targeting evaluation in dynamic environments, we develop MUSE (Mobile User Satisfaction Evaluator), an automated framework utilizing an MLLM-as-a-judge multi-agent architecture. MUSE performs fine-grained auditing across three dimensions: Outcome Effectiveness, Execution Quality, and Interaction Quality. Empirical results on AmbiBench reveal the performance boundaries of SoTA agents across different clarity levels, quantify the gains derived from active interaction, and validate the strong correlation between MUSE and human judgment. This work redefines evaluation standards, laying the foundation for next-generation agents capable of truly understanding user intent.

Key facts. Cited by 7 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 32 of its 33 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 12 Feb 2026.

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32 of 33 references.

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  2. 2025ColorBench: Benchmarking Mobile Agents with Graph-Structured Framework for Complex Long-Horizon Tasks16 Oct
  3. 2025MobiAgent: A Systematic Framework for Customizable Mobile Agents30 Aug
  4. 2025Mobile-Agent-v3: Fundamental Agents for GUI Automation21 Aug
  5. 2025MVISU-Bench: Benchmarking Mobile Agents for Real-World Tasks by Multi-App, Vague, Interactive, Single-App and Unethical Instructions12 Aug
  6. 2025Uncertainty-Aware GUI Agent: Adaptive Perception through Component Recommendation and Human-in-the-Loop Refinement6 Aug
  7. 2025Mobile-Bench-v2: A More Realistic and Comprehensive Benchmark for VLM-based Mobile Agents17 May
  8. 2025AppAgentX: Evolving GUI Agents as Proficient Smartphone Users4 Mar
  9. 2025UI-TARS: Pioneering Automated GUI Interaction with Native Agents21 Jan
  10. 2025Mobile-Agent-E: Self-Evolving Mobile Assistant for Complex Tasks20 Jan
  11. 2025A3: Android Agent Arena for Mobile GUI Agents with Essential-State Procedural Evaluation2 Jan
  12. 2024AndroidLab: Training and Systematic Benchmarking of Android Autonomous Agents31 Oct
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  1. 2024AutoGLM: Autonomous Foundation Agents for GUIs28 Oct
  2. 2024SPA-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for SmartPhone Agent Evaluation19 Oct
  3. 2024AppAgent v2: Advanced Agent for Flexible Mobile Interactions5 Aug
  4. 2024MobileFlow: A Multimodal LLM For Mobile GUI Agent5 Jul
  5. 2024MobileAgentBench: An Efficient and User-Friendly Benchmark for Mobile LLM Agents12 Jun
  6. 2024Mobile-Agent-v2: Mobile Device Operation Assistant with Effective Navigation via Multi-Agent Collaboration3 Jun
  7. 2024CoCo-Agent: A Comprehensive Cognitive MLLM Agent for Smartphone GUI Automation19 Feb
  8. 2024Understanding the Weakness of Large Language Model Agents within a Complex Android Environment9 Feb
  9. 2024Mobile-Agent: Autonomous Multi-Modal Mobile Device Agent with Visual Perception29 Jan
  10. 2023AppAgent: Multimodal Agents as Smartphone Users21 Dec
  11. 2023CogAgent: A Visual Language Model for GUI Agents14 Dec
  12. 2023Mobile-Env: Building Qualified Evaluation Benchmarks for LLM-GUI Interaction14 May

Other references · 8

  1. 2023Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arenacited by 8,626
  2. 2024AndroidWorld: A Dynamic Benchmarking Environment for Autonomous Agentscited by 468
  3. 2023AutoDroid: LLM-powered Task Automation in Androidcited by 184
  4. 2023Bridging the Gulf of Envisioning: Cognitive Design Challenges in LLM Interfacescited by 72
  5. 2024MobileVLM: A Vision-Language Model for Better Intra- and Inter-UI Understandingcited by 48
  6. 2025AutoGUI: Scaling GUI Grounding with Automatic Functionality Annotations from LLMscited by 19
  7. 2024MobA: Multifaceted Memory-Enhanced Adaptive Planning for Efficient Mobile Task Automationcited by 14
  8. 2025Robust, Observable, and Evolvable Agentic Systems Engineering: A Principled Framework Validated via the Fairy GUI Agentcited by 1

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