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Recovering Policy-Induced Errors: Benchmarking and Trajectory Synthesis for Robust GUI Agents

Abstract

While GUI agents have advanced rapidly, they often lack the robustness to recover from their own errors, hindering real-world deployment. To bridge this gap at both the evaluation and data levels, we introduce GUI-RobustEval and propose Robustness-driven Trajectory Synthesis. GUI-RobustEval contains 1,2161,216 executable test cases that systematically measure error recovery capabilities across a broad and realistic spectrum of error modes. At the data level, RoTS is a scalable synthesis framework that creates 800k800k high-quality data via a tree-based pipeline that proactively discovers diverse error modes and synthesizes corresponding recovery steps. Our two models, RoTS-7B and RoTS-32B, fine-tuned on our dataset, both demonstrate significant gains on GUI-RobustEval and traditional GUI benchmarks. Notably, RoTS-32B achieves state-of-the-art performance on OSWorld, with a 47.4%47.4\% success rate and a 33.8%33.8\% All-Pass@4 score, suggesting that improved long-horizon error recovery ability contributes to both robustness and overall performance. Our code is available at https://github.com/AlibabaResearch/RoTS.

Comments: ICML 2026 Spotlight. 36 pages, 19 figures, includes appendix

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.29447,
  title  = {Recovering Policy-Induced Errors: Benchmarking and Trajectory Synthesis for Robust GUI Agents},
  author = {Tianpeng Bu and Xin Liu and Qihua Chen and Hao Jiang and Shurui Li and Hongtao Duan and Lu Jiang and Lulu Hu and Bin Yang and Minying Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29447},
  year   = {2026}
}