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Jev-Mobile: Jev as an Executor for Mobile GUI Agents

arXiv 2609.30186 ↗First posted 24 Sep 2026cs.AI cs.SEcited by 2

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Vision-language models (VLMs) have become a common foundation for autonomous mobile GUI agents, but most existing systems rely on the VLM for both planning and action grounding at nearly every interaction step, leading to substantial latency and model-serving cost. We introduce Jev-Mobile, which shifts this paradigm to low-frequency VLM planning and high-frequency lightweight execution: the VLM specifies local goals, the accessibility tree defines a structured executable action space, and Jev, a fast typed decision model, repeatedly selects actions within this space. This design allows multiple GUI actions to be executed under a single VLM decision, reducing expensive VLM inference while preserving adaptive interaction. On the full AndroidWorld task suite, Jev-Mobile achieves 79% task success, compared with 78% for SeeAct-V and 84% for a Step-wise VLM baseline. Among successful trajectories, it reduces mean end-to-end execution time by 32.7% and mean model API cost by 73.4% relative to Step-wise VLM. These results show that decoupling high-level VLM reasoning from low-level action execution can substantially improve mobile GUI agent efficiency while maintaining competitive task performance.

Key facts. Cited by 2 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 31 of its 36 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 24 Sep 2026.

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31 of 36 references.

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  1. 2026Towards Scalable Lightweight GUI Agents via Multi-role Orchestration15 Apr
  2. 2026Mobile-Agent-v3.5: Multi-platform Fundamental GUI Agents15 Feb
  3. 2025MobileWorld: Benchmarking Autonomous Mobile Agents in Agent-User Interactive and MCP-Augmented Environments22 Dec
  4. 2025Mobile-Agent-RAG: Driving Smart Multi-Agent Coordination with Contextual Knowledge Empowerment for Long-Horizon Mobile Automation15 Nov
  5. 2025Hi-Agent: Hierarchical Vision-Language Agents for Mobile Device Control16 Oct
  6. 2025Mobile-Agent-v3: Fundamental Agents for GUI Automation21 Aug
  7. 2025Agent-SAMA: State-Aware Mobile Assistant29 May
  8. 2025EcoAgent: An Efficient Device-Cloud Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Mobile Automation8 May
  9. 2025Mobile-Agent-E: Self-Evolving Mobile Assistant for Complex Tasks20 Jan
  10. 2025A3: Android Agent Arena for Mobile GUI Agents with Essential-State Procedural Evaluation2 Jan
  11. 2024AndroidLab: Training and Systematic Benchmarking of Android Autonomous Agents31 Oct
  12. 2024OS-ATLAS: A Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents30 Oct
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  1. 2024SPA-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for SmartPhone Agent Evaluation19 Oct
  2. 2024Navigating the Digital World as Humans Do: Universal Visual Grounding for GUI Agents7 Oct
  3. 2024DigiRL: Training In-The-Wild Device-Control Agents with Autonomous Reinforcement Learning14 Jun
  4. 2024MobileAgentBench: An Efficient and User-Friendly Benchmark for Mobile LLM Agents12 Jun
  5. 2024On the Effects of Data Scale on UI Control Agents6 Jun
  6. 2024LlamaTouch: A Faithful and Scalable Testbed for Mobile UI Task Automation12 Apr
  7. 2024CoCo-Agent: A Comprehensive Cognitive MLLM Agent for Smartphone GUI Automation19 Feb
  8. 2024Understanding the Weakness of Large Language Model Agents within a Complex Android Environment9 Feb
  9. 2024Mobile-Agent: Autonomous Multi-Modal Mobile Device Agent with Visual Perception29 Jan
  10. 2024SeeClick: Harnessing GUI Grounding for Advanced Visual GUI Agents17 Jan
  11. 2023AppAgent: Multimodal Agents as Smartphone Users21 Dec

Other references · 8

  1. 2024GPT-4V(ision) is a Generalist Web Agent, if Groundedcited by 547
  2. 2024AndroidWorld: A Dynamic Benchmarking Environment for Autonomous Agentscited by 450
  3. 2024Aguvis: Unified Pure Vision Agents for Autonomous GUI Interactioncited by 271
  4. 2024GUIOdyssey: A Comprehensive Dataset for Cross-App GUI Navigation on Mobile Devicescited by 190
  5. 2023AutoDroid: LLM-powered Task Automation in Androidcited by 178
  6. 2021AndroidEnv: A Reinforcement Learning Platform for Androidcited by 90
  7. 2023Explore, Select, Derive, and Recall: Augmenting LLM with Human-like Memory for Mobile Task Automationcited by 57
  8. 2021Mobile App Tasks with Iterative Feedback (MoTIF): Addressing Task Feasibility in Interactive Visual Environmentscited by 28

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