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Are Android GUI Agents Robust Against Runtime Anomalies? AnTrap: Evaluating Agents in Dynamic Adversarial Environments

arXiv 2608.24099 ↗First posted 25 Aug 2026cs.AIcited by 1

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

Abstract (arXiv)

GUI agents often encounter dynamic anomalies when deployed on Android devices, from unexpected pop-ups to action misuse, yet existing benchmarks lack systematic evaluation of agent robustness against runtime anomalies. We introduce AnTrap, a comprehensive benchmark that injects dynamic perturbations into agent execution trajectories. We propose a taxonomy organizing real-world anomalies into four layers (State, Thinking, Action and Round) with ten fine-grained subcategories, and develop a construction pipeline that preserves task solvability while introducing realistic adversarial conditions. Evaluating 16 leading GUI models, we reveal universal vulnerability to dynamic anomalies, with even the strongest models suffering significant performance degradation. Furthermore, we conduct GRPO training in both original and adversarial environments to validate our benchmark, separating environment-learnable anomalies from reasoning-bottlenecked ones. Our findings show that while single-step traps at state and action layers are largely addressable through adversarial reinforcement learning, deep contextual traps, like state deadlock, expose intrinsic limitations that cannot be resolved by training in environments with traps alone.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper 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 34 of its 50 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 25 Aug 2026.

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34 of 50 references.

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  6. 2026Mobile-Agent-v3.5: Multi-platform Fundamental GUI Agents15 Feb
  7. 2026AmbiBench: Benchmarking Mobile GUI Agents Beyond One-Shot Instructions in the Wild12 Feb
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  12. 2025Mobile-Agent-v3: Fundamental Agents for GUI Automation21 Aug
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  3. 2025UI-TARS: Pioneering Automated GUI Interaction with Native Agents21 Jan
  4. 2024AndroidLab: Training and Systematic Benchmarking of Android Autonomous Agents31 Oct
  5. 2024DigiRL: Training In-The-Wild Device-Control Agents with Autonomous Reinforcement Learning14 Jun
  6. 2024OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments11 Apr
  7. 2024Android in the Zoo: Chain-of-Action-Thought for GUI Agents5 Mar

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  6. 2024GUIOdyssey: A Comprehensive Dataset for Cross-App GUI Navigation on Mobile Devicescited by 194
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