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Main Authors: Liu, Yichao, Shen, Huawen, Yu, Liu, Liu, Shiyu, Chen, Zeyu, Zhou, Yu
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15542
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author Liu, Yichao
Shen, Huawen
Yu, Liu
Liu, Shiyu
Chen, Zeyu
Zhou, Yu
author_facet Liu, Yichao
Shen, Huawen
Yu, Liu
Liu, Shiyu
Chen, Zeyu
Zhou, Yu
contents GUI agents powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capability in understanding and executing user instructions. However, accurately grounding instruction-relevant elements from high-resolution screenshots cluttered with irrelevant UI components remains challenging for existing approaches. Inspired by how humans dynamically adjust their perceptual scope to locate task-related regions on complex screens, we propose DRS-GUI, a training-free dynamic region search framework for GUI grounding that can be seamlessly integrated into existing MLLMs. DRS-GUI introduces a lightweight UI Perceptor that performs three human-like perceptual actions (Focus, Shift, and Scatter) to progressively explore the interface and generate region proposals. To dynamically schedule these actions, we further design an Action Planner based on Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). A region quality reward is employed to evaluate and select the highly instruction-relevant region, efficiently pruning redundant UI elements. Experiments demonstrate that DRS-GUI yields a 14\% improvement on ScreenSpot-Pro for general and GUI-specific MLLMs (Qwen2.5-VL-7B and UGround-V1-7B), significantly enhancing grounding performance and generalization.
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spellingShingle DRS-GUI: Dynamic Region Search for Training-Free GUI Grounding
Liu, Yichao
Shen, Huawen
Yu, Liu
Liu, Shiyu
Chen, Zeyu
Zhou, Yu
Artificial Intelligence
GUI agents powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capability in understanding and executing user instructions. However, accurately grounding instruction-relevant elements from high-resolution screenshots cluttered with irrelevant UI components remains challenging for existing approaches. Inspired by how humans dynamically adjust their perceptual scope to locate task-related regions on complex screens, we propose DRS-GUI, a training-free dynamic region search framework for GUI grounding that can be seamlessly integrated into existing MLLMs. DRS-GUI introduces a lightweight UI Perceptor that performs three human-like perceptual actions (Focus, Shift, and Scatter) to progressively explore the interface and generate region proposals. To dynamically schedule these actions, we further design an Action Planner based on Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). A region quality reward is employed to evaluate and select the highly instruction-relevant region, efficiently pruning redundant UI elements. Experiments demonstrate that DRS-GUI yields a 14\% improvement on ScreenSpot-Pro for general and GUI-specific MLLMs (Qwen2.5-VL-7B and UGround-V1-7B), significantly enhancing grounding performance and generalization.
title DRS-GUI: Dynamic Region Search for Training-Free GUI Grounding
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15542