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OS-Themis: A Scalable Critic Framework for Generalist GUI Rewards

arXiv 2603.19191 ↗First posted 19 Mar 2026cs.AIcited by 9

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to improve the robustness of GUI agents in stochastic environments, yet training is highly sensitive to the quality of the reward function. Existing reward approaches struggle to achieve both scalability and performance. To address this, we propose OS-Themis, a scalable and accurate multi-agent critic framework. Unlike a single judge, OS-Themis decomposes trajectories into verifiable milestones to isolate critical evidence for decision making and employs a review mechanism to strictly audit the evidence chain before making the final verdict. To facilitate evaluation, we further introduce OmniGUIRewardBench (OGRBench), a holistic cross-platform benchmark for GUI outcome rewards, where all evaluated models achieve their best performance under OS-Themis. Extensive experiments on AndroidWorld show that OS-Themis yields a 10.3% improvement when used to support online RL training, and a 6.9% gain when used for trajectory validation and filtering in the self-training loop, highlighting its potential to drive agent evolution.

Key facts. Cited by 9 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 24 of its 36 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 19 Mar 2026.

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24 of 36 references.

Closest ancestors · 13

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  2. 2025UI-TARS-2 Technical Report: Advancing GUI Agent with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning2 Sep
  3. 2025Mobile-Agent-v3: Fundamental Agents for GUI Automation21 Aug
  4. 2025ComputerRL: Scaling End-to-End Online Reinforcement Learning for Computer Use Agents19 Aug
  5. 2025UI-Venus Technical Report: Building High-performance UI Agents with RFT14 Aug
  6. 2025MMBench-GUI: Hierarchical Multi-Platform Evaluation Framework for GUI Agents25 Jul
  7. 2025Scaling Computer-Use Grounding via User Interface Decomposition and Synthesis19 May
  8. 2024OS-ATLAS: A Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents30 Oct
  9. 2024DistRL: An Asynchronous Distributed Reinforcement Learning Framework for On-Device Control Agents18 Oct
  10. 2024Agent S: An Open Agentic Framework that Uses Computers Like a Human10 Oct
  11. 2024Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale12 Sep
  12. 2024DigiRL: Training In-The-Wild Device-Control Agents with Autonomous Reinforcement Learning14 Jun
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  1. 2024SeeClick: Harnessing GUI Grounding for Advanced Visual GUI Agents17 Jan

Other references · 11

  1. 2024HybridFlow: A Flexible and Efficient RLHF Frameworkcited by 1,980
  2. 2025InternVL3.5: Advancing Open-Source Multimodal Models in Versatility, Reasoning, and Efficiencycited by 1,419
  3. 2024LLMs-as-Judges: A Comprehensive Survey on LLM-based Evaluation Methodscited by 451
  4. 2024Aguvis: Unified Pure Vision Agents for Autonomous GUI Interactioncited by 271
  5. 2024WebRL: Training LLM Web Agents via Self-Evolving Online Curriculum Reinforcement Learningcited by 243
  6. 2024Prometheus-Vision: Vision-Language Model as a Judge for Fine-Grained Evaluationcited by 123
  7. 2025SEAgent: Self-Evolving Computer Use Agent with Autonomous Learning from Experiencecited by 68
  8. 2025UI-S1: Advancing GUI Automation via Semi-online Reinforcement Learningcited by 32
  9. 2025Agent-RewardBench: Towards a Unified Benchmark for Reward Modeling across Perception, Planning, and Safety in Real-World Multimodal Agentscited by 19
  10. 2026OS-Symphony: A Holistic Framework for Robust and Generalist Computer-Using Agentcited by 19
  11. 2025OS-Sentinel: Towards Safety-Enhanced Mobile GUI Agents via Hybrid Validation in Realistic Workflowscited by 18

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