TongUI: Internet-Scale Trajectories from Multimodal Web Tutorials for Generalized GUI Agents

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Main Authors: Zhang, Bofei, Shang, Zirui, Gao, Zhi, Zhang, Wang, Xie, Rui, Ma, Xiaojian, Yuan, Tao, Wu, Xinxiao, Zhu, Song-Chun, Li, Qing
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author Zhang, Bofei
Shang, Zirui
Gao, Zhi
Zhang, Wang
Xie, Rui
Ma, Xiaojian
Yuan, Tao
Wu, Xinxiao
Zhu, Song-Chun
Li, Qing
author_facet Zhang, Bofei
Shang, Zirui
Gao, Zhi
Zhang, Wang
Xie, Rui
Ma, Xiaojian
Yuan, Tao
Wu, Xinxiao
Zhu, Song-Chun
Li, Qing
contents Building Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents is a promising research direction, which simulates human interaction with computers or mobile phones to perform diverse GUI tasks. However, a major challenge in developing generalized GUI agents is the lack of sufficient trajectory data across various operating systems and applications, mainly due to the high cost of manual annotations. In this paper, we propose the TongUI framework that builds generalized GUI agents by learning from rich multimodal web tutorials. Concretely, we crawl and process online GUI tutorials (such as videos and articles) into GUI agent trajectory data, through which we produce the GUI-Net dataset containing 143K trajectory data across five operating systems and more than 200 applications. We develop the TongUI agent by fine-tuning Qwen2.5-VL-3B/7B models on GUI-Net, which show remarkable performance improvements on commonly used grounding and navigation benchmarks, outperforming baseline agents about 10\% on multiple benchmarks, showing the effectiveness of the GUI-Net dataset and underscoring the significance of our TongUI framework. We will fully open-source the code, the GUI-Net dataset, and the trained models soon.
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spellingShingle TongUI: Internet-Scale Trajectories from Multimodal Web Tutorials for Generalized GUI Agents
Zhang, Bofei
Shang, Zirui
Gao, Zhi
Zhang, Wang
Xie, Rui
Ma, Xiaojian
Yuan, Tao
Wu, Xinxiao
Zhu, Song-Chun
Li, Qing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Building Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents is a promising research direction, which simulates human interaction with computers or mobile phones to perform diverse GUI tasks. However, a major challenge in developing generalized GUI agents is the lack of sufficient trajectory data across various operating systems and applications, mainly due to the high cost of manual annotations. In this paper, we propose the TongUI framework that builds generalized GUI agents by learning from rich multimodal web tutorials. Concretely, we crawl and process online GUI tutorials (such as videos and articles) into GUI agent trajectory data, through which we produce the GUI-Net dataset containing 143K trajectory data across five operating systems and more than 200 applications. We develop the TongUI agent by fine-tuning Qwen2.5-VL-3B/7B models on GUI-Net, which show remarkable performance improvements on commonly used grounding and navigation benchmarks, outperforming baseline agents about 10\% on multiple benchmarks, showing the effectiveness of the GUI-Net dataset and underscoring the significance of our TongUI framework. We will fully open-source the code, the GUI-Net dataset, and the trained models soon.
title TongUI: Internet-Scale Trajectories from Multimodal Web Tutorials for Generalized GUI Agents
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12679