Agentic Reward Modeling: Verifying GUI Agent via Progressive Trajectory-Grounded Interaction

Abstract:Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) provides a promising pathway for continuously advancing GUI agents, yet existing reward modeling paradigms face complementary limitations. Rule-based methods suffer from poor scalability and cannot handle open-ended tasks. LLM-as-a-Judge methods enable scalable trajectory verification but remain passive and are constrained by partial state observability, since key evidence often resides in latent environment states beyond the trajectory. Recent active environment interaction methods mitigate observability issues but tend to over-rely on probing while under-utilizing direct trajectory evidence, leading to verification inefficiency. To address these challenges, we advocate a trajectory-grounded interactive verification paradigm. We introduce VAGEN, a framework that employs a tool-augmented verifier agent governed by a Progressive Verification Mechanism, which follows a surface-to-latent and cheap-to-expensive design philosophy to extract trajectory evidence and probe environment states in a proactive end-to-end manner. Experiments on OSWorld-Verified and AndroidWorld benchmarks demonstrate that VAGEN significantly improves evaluation accuracy with a favorable performance-efficiency trade-off.

Robotics (cs.RO)

arXiv:2602.00575 [cs.RO]

(or arXiv:2602.00575v2 [cs.RO] for this version)

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