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Scaling, Benchmarking, and Reasoning of Vision-Language Agents for Mobile GUI Navigation

Artificial Intelligence 2026-05-27 v1

Abstract

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown rapid progress in mobile GUI navigation. This paper presents a systematic study of data scaling, benchmarking, and reasoning for VLM-based agents in this domain. To facilitate rigorous evaluation, we introduce HyperTrack, a large-scale dataset with over 16000 real-world tasks across more than 650 Chinese mobile applications, along with GUIEvalKit, an open-source toolkit for unified benchmarking of VLMs on offline GUI navigation tasks. Using HyperTrack, we analyze the effects of training data scale on both supervised and reinforcement-based finetuning. Our results show that reinforcement-based finetuning consistently outperforms supervised finetuning, particularly in out-of-domain settings, highlighting the synergy between data scaling and reinforcement learning. Leveraging GUIEvalKit, we further benchmark state-of-the-art (SOTA) VLMs and analyze how interaction history and reasoning capabilities influence task completion. Together, HyperTrack and GUIEvalKit provide a comprehensive platform for developing and evaluating VLM agents in mobile GUI navigation tasks.

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@article{arxiv.2605.27134,
  title  = {Scaling, Benchmarking, and Reasoning of Vision-Language Agents for Mobile GUI Navigation},
  author = {Heng Qu and Yike Liu and Renren Jin and Wenzong Zhang and Pengzhi Gao and Wei Liu and Jian Luan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.27134},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted at ICML 2026