Reward models

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Papers & surveys

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Paper

Discriminative World Models for Web Agents

Kelvin Li, Dhruv Pendharkar et al.

Trains discriminative web world models to distinguish the true next state from outcomes of alternative actions. Branching web trajectories support training, followed by tests of predicted-state matching, process-reward action ranking and end-to-end WebArena-Lite selection.

Web
Paper

Adaptive Milestone Reward for GUI Agents

Congmin Zheng, Xiaoyun Mo et al.

ADMIRE extracts milestones from successful GUI explorations to provide adaptive intermediate rewards. It assigns credit differently to successful and failed trajectories and evaluates training on AndroidWorld, with additional transfer studies in web and embodied settings.

AndroidWeb
Paper

Step-GUI Technical Report

Haolong Yan, Jia Wang et al.

Step-GUI uses calibrated trajectory rewards to turn generated GUI interaction data into training signals for compact agent models. The report also introduces GUI-MCP for hierarchical GUI operations and local task delegation, and AndroidDaily for static-action and end-to-end mobile evaluation.

AndroidDesktop
Paper

Scaling Agents for Computer Use

Gonzalo Gonzalez-Pumariega, Vincent Tu et al.

Introduces Behavior Judge, which converts execution trajectories into behavior narratives and compares multiple candidate rollouts. Experiments examine this selection approach on OSWorld, WindowsAgentArena and AndroidWorld.

DesktopWindowsAndroid

Benchmarks

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Benchmark

AgentRewardBench

A benchmark and evaluation toolkit for comparing automatic web-agent judges against expert judgments of task success, side effects and repetition.

Web
Benchmark

CUAVerifierBench

Human-annotated browser-agent trajectories for comparing automated task-success and process-quality verifiers against reviewer judgments.

Web
Benchmark

OS-Critic Bench

A cross-platform GUI-critic benchmark with mobile, desktop and web JSONL splits and screenshot assets, accompanied by public inference and accuracy-scoring scripts.

Cross-platformDesktopWeb
Benchmark

WebRewardBench

An offline preference-evaluation set for web process reward models, pairing page and trajectory context with preferred and rejected candidate decisions.

Web
Model

GUI-G2 7B

A Qwen2.5-VL grounding checkpoint trained with Gaussian point and coverage rewards whose granularity adapts to interface-element scale.

Cross-platform
Model

WebJudge 7B

A visual trajectory judge that retains selected intermediate screenshots to evaluate whether a web agent completed its task.

Web
Model

WebShepherd 3B

A public text-based process-reward checkpoint from the Web-Shepherd collection for scoring web-agent decisions against task checklists.

Web

Engineering & industry

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Framework

UI-Genie

Training and evaluation code for a mobile-agent framework that iteratively generates trajectories using agent and reward-model feedback.

Android
Framework

VEM GUI-Agent-RL

Training code that learns a value environment model from offline Android interaction data and uses its frozen value estimates to guide GUI policy optimization.

Android

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