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Fara-1.5: Scalable Learning Environments for Computer Use Agents

arXiv 2606.20785 ↗First posted 18 Jun 2026cs.AI cs.LGcited by 6

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Collecting computer use data from human demonstrations is expensive and slow, motivating the need for scalable generation strategies. This requires two key ingredients: environments in which agents can act and verifiers that can judge whether their demonstrations succeeded. We introduce FaraGen1.5, a scalable data pipeline for computer use agents composed of three modular components: environments, solvers, and verifiers. FaraGen1.5 uses both live websites and synthetic environments that faithfully simulate domains gated by authentication or that require irreversible actions. It employs a solver harness that can be powered by multiple models, including strong frontier models such as GPT-5.4, and also incorporates a user simulator to enable multi-turn rollouts. Finally, FaraGen1.5 scores the resulting trajectories with three complementary verifiers covering task correctness, efficiency, and critical-point adherence. Using data produced by this pipeline, we train Fara1.5, a family of native computer use agents (CUAs) at three scales built on Qwen3.5 (4B, 9B, and 27B). To train these models, we employ a supervised finetuning (SFT) recipe that carefully balances data from FaraGen1.5 for broad coverage, specific high-value tasks, and target model deficiencies in an iterative approach. Each model sets a new state of the art (SoTA) for its size class on browser-use benchmarks: Fara1.5-9B reaches 63.4% on Online-Mind2Web and 86.6% on WebVoyager, while Fara1.5-27B achieves 72.3% on Online-Mind2Web, which is competitive with much larger proprietary systems. We also release weights for the Fara1.5 models under MIT license, making SoTA computer use accessible for all beyond closed API-only systems.

Key facts. Cited by 6 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 41 of its 61 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 Jun 2026.

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41 of 61 references.

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  2. 2026The Art of Building Verifiers for Computer Use Agents5 Apr
  3. 2026CUA-Suite: Massive Human-annotated Video Demonstrations for Computer-Use Agents25 Mar
  4. 2026Mobile-Agent-v3.5: Multi-platform Fundamental GUI Agents15 Feb
  5. 2025Grounding Computer Use Agents on Human Demonstrations10 Nov
  6. 2025UI-TARS-2 Technical Report: Advancing GUI Agent with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning2 Sep
  7. 2025GUI-Actor: Coordinate-Free Visual Grounding for GUI Agents3 Jun
  8. 2025Scaling Computer-Use Grounding via User Interface Decomposition and Synthesis19 May
  9. 2025ScreenSpot-Pro: GUI Grounding for Professional High-Resolution Computer Use4 Apr
  10. 2025UI-TARS: Pioneering Automated GUI Interaction with Native Agents21 Jan
  11. 2024OS-ATLAS: A Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents30 Oct
  12. 2024Navigating the Digital World as Humans Do: Universal Visual Grounding for GUI Agents7 Oct
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  10. 2026CUA-Gym: Scaling Verifiable Training Environments and Tasks for Computer-Use Agentscited by 23
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