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This research addresses critical limitations in current GUI automation by introducing the UI-in-the-Loop paradigm, which leverages Multimodal Large Language Models to explicitly reason about UI element semantics rather than relying solely on pixel-level matching. By establishing a new cyclic process between screen observation and action execution, the study significantly improves interpretability and success rates in complex interface navigation tasks. The accompanying benchmark of 26K samples provides an essential evaluation standard for advancing multimodal reasoning capabilities in practical software agents.
What's Missing in Screen-to-Action? Towards a UI-in-the-Loop Paradigm for Multimodal GUI Reasoning
arXiv:2604.06995v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing Graphical User Interface (GUI) reasoning tasks remain challenging, particularly in UI understanding. Current methods typically rely on direct screen-based decision-making, which lacks interpretability and overlooks a comprehensive understanding of UI elements, ultimately leading to task failure. To enhance the understanding and interaction with UIs, we propose an innovative GUI reasoning paradigm called UI-in-the-Loop (UILoop). Our approach treats the GUI reasoning task as a cyclic Screen-UI elements-Action process. By enabling Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to explicitly learn the localization, semantic functions, and practical usage of key UI elements, UILoop achieves precise element discovery and performs interpretable reasoning. Furthermore, we introduce a more challenging UI Comprehension task centered on UI elements with three evaluation metrics. Correspondingly, we contribute a benchmark of 26K samples (UI Comprehension-Bench) to comprehensively evaluate existing methods' mastery of UI elements. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UILoop achieves state-of-the-art UI understanding performance while yielding superior results in GUI reasoning tasks.
Title:What's Missing in Screen-to-Action? Towards a UI-in-the-Loop Paradigm for Multimodal GUI Reasoning
Abstract:Existing Graphical User Interface (GUI) reasoning tasks remain challenging, particularly in UI understanding. Current methods typically rely on direct screen-based decision-making, which lacks interpretability and overlooks a comprehensive understanding of UI elements, ultimately leading to task failure. To enhance the understanding and interaction with UIs, we propose an innovative GUI reasoning paradigm called UI-in-the-Loop (UILoop). Our approach treats the GUI reasoning task as a cyclic Screen-UI elements-Action process. By enabling Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to explicitly learn the localization, semantic functions, and practical usage of key UI elements, UILoop achieves precise element discovery and performs interpretable reasoning. Furthermore, we introduce a more challenging UI Comprehension task centered on UI elements with three evaluation metrics. Correspondingly, we contribute a benchmark of 26K samples (UI Comprehension-Bench) to comprehensively evaluate existing methods' mastery of UI elements. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UILoop achieves state-of-the-art UI understanding performance while yielding superior results in GUI reasoning tasks.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2604.06995 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2604.06995v3 [cs.AI] for this version)
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