OS-Themis: A Scalable Critic Framework for Generalist GUI Rewards
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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- 2025OS-Sentinel: Towards Safety-Enhanced Mobile GUI Agents via Hybrid Validation in Realistic Workflowscited by 18
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Citing papers per year: 2026: 9.
9 papers.
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- 2026StainFlow: Entity-Stain Tracking and Evidence Linking for Process Rewards in GUI Agentscited by 1
- 2026LabOSBench: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents for Scientific Instrument Controlcited by 1
- 2026Teach it to stop, not just to clickcited by 1
- 2026OSReward: Instituting Standardized Evaluation for Cross-Platform Computer-Use Reward Modelscited by 1
- 2026Task-Adaptive Rubrics for GUI Reward Modelingcited by 1
- 2026SeekJudge: A Practical Reward Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Computer-Use Agentscited by 0
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- 2026Task-Adaptive Rubrics for GUI Reward Modeling25 Aug 2026
- 2026SkillTV-Bench: Benchmarking How Well Judges Perform on Skill-Augmented Agentic Execution6 Aug 2026
- 2026OSReward: Instituting Standardized Evaluation for Cross-Platform Computer-Use Reward Models30 Jul 2026
- 2026SeekJudge: A Practical Reward Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Computer-Use Agents25 Jul 2026
- 2026Teach it to stop, not just to click19 Jul 2026
- 2026LabOSBench: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents for Scientific Instrument Control15 Jun 2026
- 2026StainFlow: Entity-Stain Tracking and Evidence Linking for Process Rewards in GUI Agents5 Jun 2026
- 2026OpenMobile: Building Open Mobile Agents with Task and Trajectory Synthesis16 Apr 2026
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