VenusBench-Mobile: A Challenging and User-Centric Benchmark for Mobile GUI Agents with Capability Diagnostics
On the map: LLM agents and tool use → GUI and mobile agents
Abstract (arXiv)
Existing online benchmarks for mobile GUI agents remain largely app-centric and task-homogeneous, failing to reflect the diversity and instability of real-world mobile usage. To this end, we introduce VenusBench-Mobile, a challenging online benchmark for evaluating general-purpose mobile GUI agents under realistic, user-centric conditions. VenusBench-Mobile builds two core evaluation pillars: defining what to evaluate via user-intent-driven task design that reflects real mobile usage, and how to evaluate through a capability-oriented annotation scheme for fine-grained agent behavior analysis. Extensive evaluation of state-of-the-art mobile GUI agents reveals large performance gaps relative to prior benchmarks, indicating that VenusBench-Mobile poses substantially more challenging and realistic tasks and that current agents remain far from reliable real-world deployment. Diagnostic analysis further shows that failures are dominated by deficiencies in perception and memory, which are largely obscured by coarse-grained evaluations. Moreover, even the strongest agents exhibit near-zero success under environment variations, highlighting their brittleness in realistic settings. Based on these insights, we believe VenusBench-Mobile provides an important stepping stone toward robust real-world deployment of mobile GUI agents. Code and data are available at https://github.com/inclusionAI/UI-Venus/tree/VenusBench-Mobile.
Key facts. Cited by 5 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 23 of its 28 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 6 Feb 2026.
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23 of 28 references.
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5 papers.
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- 2026A Task-State Representation for Long-Horizon Mobile GUI Agentscited by 2
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- 2026UI-Venus-2 Technical Reportcited by 1
- 2026Same Tasks, Different Apps: Why Mobile GUI Agents Fail to Generalize?cited by 0
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- 2026Are Android GUI Agents Robust Against Runtime Anomalies? AnTrap: Evaluating Agents in Dynamic Adversarial Environments25 Aug 2026
- 2026MAGA: Multi-Platform Self-Fusion of GUI Agents via Structured Action Distillation31 Jul 2026
- 2026A Task-State Representation for Long-Horizon Mobile GUI Agents1 Jul 2026
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