Fei Tang
2026
Experience-driven Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning for GUI Agents
Zhengxi Lu | Jiabo Ye | Fei Tang | Yongliang Shen | Haiyang Xu | Ziwei Zheng | Weiming Lu | Ming Yan | Fei Huang | Jun Xiao | Yueting Zhuang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zhengxi Lu | Jiabo Ye | Fei Tang | Yongliang Shen | Haiyang Xu | Ziwei Zheng | Weiming Lu | Ming Yan | Fei Huang | Jun Xiao | Yueting Zhuang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
GUI agents have demonstrated remarkable progress in automating complex user interface interactions. However, training such agents for long-horizon tasks remains challenging. Single-turn reinforcement learning conditions on expert histories during training but self-generated histories during deployment, causing distribution mismatch. Online multi-turn methods eliminate this gap via environment interaction but suffer from sparse rewards and prohibitive costs. We propose ̲Experience-driven ̲Multi-turn ̲Policy ̲Optimization (EMPO), which leverages expert trajectories as environment experiences for on-policy multi-turn training. The agent constructs self-generated history throughout rollouts; when actions match expert experiences, the trajectory provides valid state transitions, and a Patch Module recovers mismatched steps to maintain on-policy rollouts. EMPO further incorporates discounted future rewards and dual-level advantage estimation to capture long-horizon dependencies. We also propose AndroidControl-Real, an evaluation metric strongly correlated with real-world performance (R2=0.934). With only 1K public trajectories as RL experiences, our method achieves substantial gains over the base model (e.g., +12.0% on AndroidWorld and +23.8% on AITW) and achieves competitive performance against strong baselines such as UI-TARS-7B and GPT-4o, demonstrating better generalization than prior single-turn RL approaches. Code available: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/UI-S1-0DAF.
UI-Copilot: Advancing Long-Horizon GUI Automation via Tool-Integrated Policy Optimization
Zhengxi Lu | Fei Tang | Guangyi Liu | Jin Ma | Kaitao Song | Xu Tan | Wenqi Zhang | Weiming Lu | Jun Xiao | Yueting Zhuang | Yongliang Shen
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Zhengxi Lu | Fei Tang | Guangyi Liu | Jin Ma | Kaitao Song | Xu Tan | Wenqi Zhang | Weiming Lu | Jun Xiao | Yueting Zhuang | Yongliang Shen
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
MLLM-based GUI agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in complex user interface interaction tasks. However, long-horizon scenarios remain challenging, as these agents are burdened with tasks beyond their intrinsic capabilities, suffering from memory degradation, progress confusion, and math hallucination. To address these challenges, we present UI-Copilot, a collaborative framework where the GUI agent focuses on task execution while a lightweight copilot provides on-demand assistance for memory retrieval and numerical computation. We introduce memory decoupling to separate persistent observations from transient execution context, and train the policy agent to selectively invoke the copilot as Retriever or Calculator based on task demands. To enable effective tool invocation learning, we propose ̲Tool- ̲Integrated ̲Policy ̲Optimization (TIPO), which separately optimizes tool selection through single-turn prediction and task execution through on-policy multi-turn rollouts. Experimental results show that UI-Copilot-7B achieves state-of-the-art performance on challenging MemGUI-Bench, outperforming strong 7B-scale GUI agents such as GUI-Owl-7B and UI-TARS-1.5-7B. Moreover, UI-Copilot-7B delivers a 17.1% absolute improvement on AndroidWorld over the base Qwen model, highlighting UI-Copilot’s strong generalization to real-world GUI tasks. Code website: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/UI-Copilot-0535.