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 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 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 success rate and a 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}
}