Selective experience activation improves personalized GUI agents across task steps

ExpActivator matches the current screen, time and scenario to specific past experiences instead of placing entire relevant histories in the agent’s context.

Chinese Tech
Fuyao Zhang · Xuan Wang · Zherui Li · Jiaming Zhang · Longtao Huang · Wei Yang Bryan Lim

NTU · Alibaba

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The authors show that task-level history retrieval mainly helps a GUI agent’s first decision, with little sustained benefit across the remaining 90% of an episode.

The authors first examined where retrieved interaction histories help personal GUI agents.

Why this paper

From Alibaba and NTU

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Relevant history helps personal GUI agents mostly at the first decision; experience must be activated by matching the current screen, not just retrieved by task.

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