Mobile GUI agents show promise in automating tasks but face significant generalization challenges in long-tail scenarios. While learning from few-shot demonstrations is an emerging solution, its progress is hindered by two critical gaps: the lack of a comprehensive benchmark for systematic evaluation on mobile devices, and the absence of a systematic framework designed to learn from demonstrations in this domain. To address these gaps, we introduce LearnGUI, the first comprehensive benchmark designed for studying demonstration-based learning in mobile agents, comprising 2,252 offline and 101 online tasks. We further develop LearnAct, a modular agent framework engineered to systematically extract, retrieve, and leverage knowledge from visual demonstrations. Extensive evaluations across six backbone models validate our approach: LearnAct achieves dramatic improvements for general-purpose models (e.g., Gemini-2.5-Pro: 38.5%→58.9%) and specialized models alike (e.g., UI-TARS-7B-SFT’s online success rate: 18.1%→32.8%), demonstrating consistent gains across model architectures. Our work provides a robust benchmark and a systematic framework, paving the way for more adaptable and practical mobile agents. Our code and data are publicly available at https://lgy0404.github.io/LearnAct/.

Shortcuts such as APIs and deep-links have emerged as efficient complements to flexible GUI operations, fostering a promising hybrid paradigm for MLLM-based mobile automation. However, systematic evaluation of GUI–shortcut hybrid agents remains largely underexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce **MAS-Bench**, a benchmark that pioneers the evaluation of GUI-shortcut hybrid agents with a specific focus on the mobile domain. Beyond merely using predefined shortcuts, MAS-Bench assesses an agent’s capability to *autonomously generate* shortcuts by discovering and creating reusable, low-cost workflows. It features 139 complex tasks across 11 real-world applications, a knowledge base of 88 predefined shortcuts (APIs, deep-links, RPA scripts), and 9 evaluation metrics. Experiments demonstrate that hybrid agents achieve up to 68.3% success rate and 39% greater execution efficiency than GUI-only counterparts. Furthermore, our evaluation framework effectively reveals the quality gap between predefined and agent-generated shortcuts, validating its capability to assess shortcut generation methods. MAS-Bench addresses the lack of systematic benchmarks for GUI-shortcut hybrid mobile agents, providing a foundational platform for future advancements in creating more efficient and robust intelligent agents.

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.

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.