用预训练模型预测界面操作价值,实现无环境交互的智能自动化。
VEM: Environment-Free Exploration for Training GUI Agent with Value Environment Model
- 通过预训练的价值环境模型直接估算动作价值,分离价值评估与策略优化。
- 在Android真实场景中达到顶尖性能,优于无环境基线并媲美需交互的方法。
- 适合需要低成本部署、跨界面泛化的GUI自动化研究者使用。
基于强化学习训练视觉语言模型用于图形用户界面(GUI)智能体面临重大挑战:基于环境的强化学习需大量交互成本,而无环境方法则易受分布偏移和奖励泛化影响。本文提出一种无环境强化学习框架,通过预训练的价值环境模型(VEM)将价值估计与策略优化解耦。VEM直接从离线数据预测状态-动作价值,无需下一状态预测或环境反馈,从而避免误差累积,并通过语义推理(如:该操作是否推进用户目标?)增强对界面变化的鲁棒性。框架分两阶段运行:(1) 预训练VEM以估计长期动作效用;(2) 以冻结的VEM信号指导策略探索,实现布局无关的GUI自动化。在Android-in-the-Wild基准测试中,VEM在离线与在线设置下均表现卓越,显著优于无环境基线,并在无需交互成本的情况下达到与基于环境方法相当的性能。关键发现是,具备语义感知的价值估计可实现与在线训练方法相媲美的效果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Training Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) agents via Reinforcement Learning (RL) faces critical challenges: environment-based RL requires costly interactions, while environment-free methods struggle with distribution shift and reward generalization. We propose an environment-free RL framework that decouples value estimation from policy optimization by leveraging a pretrained Value Environment Model (VEM). VEM predicts state-action values directly from offline data, distilling human-like priors about GUI interaction outcomes without requiring next-state prediction or environmental feedback. This avoids compounding errors and enhances resilience to UI changes by focusing on semantic reasoning (e.g., Does this action advance the user's goal?). The framework operates in two stages: (1) pretraining VEM to estimate long-term action utilities and (2) guiding policy exploration with frozen VEM signals, enabling layout-agnostic GUI automation. Evaluated on Android-in-the-Wild benchmarks, VEM achieves state-of-the-art performance in both offline and online settings, outperforming environment-free baselines significantly and matching environment-based approaches without interaction costs. Importantly, VEM demonstrates that semantic-aware value estimation can achieve comparable performance with online-trained methods.
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