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GUI-Libra: Training Native GUI Agents to Reason and Act with Action-aware Supervision and Partially Verifiable RL

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Open-source native GUI agents still lag behind closed-source systems on long-horizon navigation tasks. This gap stems from two limitations: a shortage of high-quality, action-aligned reasoning data, and the direct adoption of generic post-training pipelines that overlook the unique challenges of GUI agents. We identify two fundamental issues in these pipelines: (i) standard SFT with CoT reasoning often hurts grounding, and (ii) step-wise RLVR-tyle training faces partial verifiability, where multiple actions can be correct but only a single demonstrated action is used for verification. This makes offline step-wise metrics weak predictors of online task success. In this work, we present GUI-Libra, a tailored training recipe that addresses these challenges. First, to mitigate the scarcity of action-aligned reasoning data, we introduce a data construction and filtering pipeline and release a curated 81K GUI reasoning dataset. Second, to reconcile reasoning with grounding, we propose action-aware SFT that mixes reasoning-then-action and direct-action data and reweights tokens to emphasize action and grounding. Third, to stabilize RL under partial verifiability, we identify the overlooked importance of KL regularization in RLVR and show that a KL trust region is critical for improving offline-to-online predictability; we further introduce success-adaptive scaling to downweight unreliable negative gradients. Across diverse web and mobile benchmarks, GUI-Libra consistently improves both step-wise accuracy and end-to-end task completion. Our results suggest that carefully designed post-training and data curation can unlock significantly stronger task-solving capabilities without costly online data collection. We release our dataset, code, and models to facilitate further research on data-efficient post-training for reasoning-capable GUI agents.

Rui Yang, Qianhui Wu, Zhaoyang Wang, Hanyang Chen, Ke Yang, Hao Cheng, Huaxiu Yao, Baolin Peng, Huan Zhang, Jianfeng Gao, Tong Zhang• 2026

Related benchmarks

TaskDatasetResultRank
Web navigationWebVoyager
Success Rate34.7
68
GUI Web Agent NavigationMind2web Online
Overall Average Score28
37
GUI Agent Task SuccessAndroidWorld (online)
Task Success Rate42.6
25
Action PredictionAndroidControl Low v2
Pass@1 Step Accuracy88.9
22
Action PredictionAndroidControl High v2
Pass@1 Step Accuracy64.3
22
Step AccuracyAndroidControl High Level v2
Pass@164.3
20
Web navigationWebArena Lite v2
Average Success Rate26.6
19
Web Task SuccessOnlineMind2Web
Task Success Rate29.9
13
Web Task SuccessMind2Web (live)
Task Success Rate27.8
11
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