GUITAR: Structured Failure Diagnosis of GUI Agents via State Transitions
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arXiv:2609.34113v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding where and why Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents fail is essential for building more reliable systems, yet current evaluation relies on step accuracy, a metric that treats each screen independently and overlooks the underlying structure of GUI environments. This leads to two critical blind spots: (1) functionally equivalent screens are evaluated in isolation, obscuring systematic failure patterns across shared screens; and (2) the long-tailed GUI distribution renders failures on rare but critical screens invisible under stand
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.34113v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding where and why Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents fail is essential for building more reliable systems, yet current evaluation relies on step accuracy, a metric that treats each screen independently and overlooks the underlying structure of GUI environments.
- This leads to two critical blind spots: (1) functionally equivalent screens are evaluated in isolation, obscuring systematic failure patterns across shared screens; and (2) the long-tailed GUI distribution renders failures on rare but critical screens invisible under stand
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