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K^2-Agent: Co-Evolving Know-What and Know-How for Hierarchical Mobile Device Control

Artificial Intelligence 2026-03-03 v1

Abstract

Existing mobile device control agents often perform poorly when solving complex tasks requiring long-horizon planning and precise operations, typically due to a lack of relevant task experience or unfamiliarity with skill execution. We propose K2-Agent, a hierarchical framework that models human-like cognition by separating and co-evolving declarative (knowing what) and procedural (knowing how) knowledge for planning and execution. K2-Agent's high level reasoner is bootstrapped from a single demonstration per task and runs a Summarize-Reflect-Locate-Revise (SRLR) loop to distill and iteratively refine task-level declarative knowledge through self-evolution. The low-level executor is trained with our curriculum-guided Group Relative Policy Optimization (C-GRPO), which (i) constructs a balanced sample pool using decoupled reward signals and (ii) employs dynamic demonstration injection to guide the model in autonomously generating successful trajectories for training. On the challenging AndroidWorld benchmark, K2-Agent achieves a 76.1% success rate using only raw screenshots and open-source backbones. Furthermore, K2-Agent shows powerful dual generalization: its high-level declarative knowledge transfers across diverse base models, while its low-level procedural skills achieve competitive performance on unseen tasks in ScreenSpot-v2 and Android-in-the-Wild (AitW).

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@article{arxiv.2603.00676,
  title  = {K^2-Agent: Co-Evolving Know-What and Know-How for Hierarchical Mobile Device Control},
  author = {Zhe Wu and Donglin Mo and Hongjin Lu and Junliang Xing and Jianheng Liu and Yuheng Jing and Kai Li and Kun Shao and Jianye Hao and Yuanchun Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.00676},
  year   = {2026}
}
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