Agentic Reward Modeling: Verifying GUI Agent via Online Proactive Interaction

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Main Authors: Cui, Chaoqun, Huang, Jing, Wang, Shijing, Zheng, Liming, Kong, Qingchao, Zeng, Zhixiong
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Published: 2026
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author Cui, Chaoqun
Huang, Jing
Wang, Shijing
Zheng, Liming
Kong, Qingchao
Zeng, Zhixiong
author_facet Cui, Chaoqun
Huang, Jing
Wang, Shijing
Zheng, Liming
Kong, Qingchao
Zeng, Zhixiong
contents Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is pivotal for the continuous evolution of GUI agents, yet existing evaluation paradigms face significant limitations. Rule-based methods suffer from poor scalability and cannot handle open-ended tasks, while LLM-as-a-Judge approaches rely on passive visual observation, often failing to capture latent system states due to partial state observability. To address these challenges, we advocate for a paradigm shift from passive evaluation to Agentic Interactive Verification. We introduce VAGEN, a framework that employs a verifier agent equipped with interaction tools to autonomously plan verification strategies and proactively probe the environment for evidence of task completion. Leveraging the insight that GUI tasks are typically "easy to verify but hard to solve", VAGEN overcomes the bottlenecks of visual limitations. Experimental results on OSWorld-Verified and AndroidWorld benchmarks demonstrate that VAGEN significantly improves evaluation accuracy compared to LLM-as-a-Judge baselines and further enhances performance through test-time scaling strategies.
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spellingShingle Agentic Reward Modeling: Verifying GUI Agent via Online Proactive Interaction
Cui, Chaoqun
Huang, Jing
Wang, Shijing
Zheng, Liming
Kong, Qingchao
Zeng, Zhixiong
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Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is pivotal for the continuous evolution of GUI agents, yet existing evaluation paradigms face significant limitations. Rule-based methods suffer from poor scalability and cannot handle open-ended tasks, while LLM-as-a-Judge approaches rely on passive visual observation, often failing to capture latent system states due to partial state observability. To address these challenges, we advocate for a paradigm shift from passive evaluation to Agentic Interactive Verification. We introduce VAGEN, a framework that employs a verifier agent equipped with interaction tools to autonomously plan verification strategies and proactively probe the environment for evidence of task completion. Leveraging the insight that GUI tasks are typically "easy to verify but hard to solve", VAGEN overcomes the bottlenecks of visual limitations. Experimental results on OSWorld-Verified and AndroidWorld benchmarks demonstrate that VAGEN significantly improves evaluation accuracy compared to LLM-as-a-Judge baselines and further enhances performance through test-time scaling strategies.
title Agentic Reward Modeling: Verifying GUI Agent via Online Proactive Interaction
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00575