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Users install many apps on their smartphones, raising issues related to information overload for users and resource management for devices. Moreover, the recent increase in the use of personal assistants has made mobile devices even more…

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Exploratory GUI testing is a particularly demanding setting for MLLM agents: without predefined test scripts, an agent must autonomously navigate an application and discover defects through its own interaction. However, current evaluation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaoyi Chen , Yifei Gao , Yang Xu , Xingxing Song , Yi Zhang , Jitao Sang

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on automated software engineering tasks, yet existing benchmarks focus primarily on library-style repositories, leaving mobile application development largely unexplored despite its…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Moshood A. Fakorede , Krishna Upadhyay , A. B. Siddique , Umar Farooq

Mobile phones and smartphones have evolved to be very powerful devices that have the potential to be utilized in many application areas apart from generic communication. With each passing year, we see increasingly powerful smartphones being…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-07-14 S. Sarma

Unique challenges arise when testing mobile applications due to their prevailing event-driven nature and complex contextual features (e.g. sensors, notifications). Current automated input generation approaches for Android apps are typically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vasquez , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Christopher Vendome , Denys Poshyvanyk

Android is the most widely used smartphone OS with 82.8% market share in 2015. It is therefore the most widely targeted system by malware authors. Researchers rely on dynamic analysis to extract malware behaviors and often use emulators to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Paul Irolla , Eric Filiol

Generative AI is being leveraged to solve a variety of computer-use tasks involving desktop applications. State-of-the-art systems have focused solely on improving accuracy on leading benchmarks. However, these systems are practically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Reyna Abhyankar , Qi Qi , Yiying Zhang

The recent progress of large language model agents has opened new possibilities for automating tasks through graphical user interfaces (GUIs), especially in mobile environments where intelligent interaction can greatly enhance usability.…

The improvement of web agents on current benchmarks raises the question: Do today's agents perform just as well when the web changes? We introduce TimeWarp, a benchmark that emulates the evolving web using containerized environments that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Md Farhan Ishmam , Kenneth Marino

Evaluating Computer Use Agents (CUAs) on interactive environments is fraught with methodological pitfalls that the field has yet to systematically address. We show that a 1MB replay script that blindly executes a recorded action sequence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Pierluca D'Oro , Sneha Silwal , William Wong , Yuxuan Sun , Fanyi Xiao , Manchen Wang , Eric Gan , Allen Bolourchi , Joseph Tighe

Multimodal agents are making rapid progress on general computer-use tasks, yet existing benchmarks remain largely confined to browsers and basic desktop applications, falling short in professional software workflows that dominate real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jiaxin Ai , Yukang Feng , Fanrui Zhang , Jianwen Sun , Zizhen Li , Chuanhao Li , Yifan Chang , Wenxiao Wu , Ruoxi Wang , Mingliang Zhai , Kaipeng Zhang

Given the significant advances in Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) in reasoning and visual understanding, mobile agents are rapidly emerging to meet users' automation needs. However, existing evaluation benchmarks are disconnected from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zeyu Huang , Juyuan Wang , Longfeng Chen , Boyi Xiao , Leng Cai , Yawen Zeng , Jin Xu

While LLM/VLM-powered AI agents have advanced rapidly in math, coding, and computer use, their applications in complex physical and social environments remain challenging. Building agents that can survive and thrive in the real world (for…

Generative world models are reshaping embodied AI, enabling agents to synthesize realistic 4D driving environments that look convincing but often fail physically or behaviorally. Despite rapid progress, the field still lacks a unified way…

Screen recordings are becoming increasingly important as rich software artifacts that inform mobile application development processes. However, the amount of manual effort required to extract information from these graphical artifacts can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Madeleine Havranek , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Nathan Cooper , Oscar Chaparro , Denys Poshyvnayk , Kevin Moran

The rapid growth of AI agent ecosystems is transforming how complex tasks are delegated and executed, creating a new challenge of identifying suitable agents for a given task. Unlike traditional tools, agent capabilities are often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Bin Wu , Arastun Mammadli , Xiaoyu Zhang , Emine Yilmaz

World models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for building interactive simulation environments, with recent video-based approaches demonstrating impressive progress in generating visually plausible dynamics. However, because these models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hongyu Wang , Jingquan Wang , Bocheng Zou , Radu Serban , Dan Negrut

Mobile GUI agents exhibit substantial potential to facilitate and automate the execution of user tasks on mobile phones. However, exist mobile GUI agents predominantly privilege autonomous operation and neglect the necessity of active user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Haitao Jia , Ming He , Zimo Yin , Likang Wu , Jianping Fan , Jitao Sang

Embodied AI benchmarks have advanced navigation, manipulation, and reasoning, but most target complex humanoid agents or large-scale simulations that are far from real-world deployment. In contrast, mobile cleaning robots with dual mode…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Wenbo Li , Guanting Chen , Tao Zhao , Jiyao Wang , Tianxin Hu , Yuwen Liao , Weixiang Guo , Shenghai Yuan

According to the World Health Organization(WHO), it is estimated that approximately 1.3 billion people live with some forms of vision impairment globally, of whom 36 million are blind. Due to their disability, engaging these minority into…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Jieshan Chen , Chunyang Chen , Zhenchang Xing , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu , Guoqiang Li , Jinshui Wang