In plain words: A new set of 715,000 phone sessions teaches helpers to follow instructions by tapping and swiping what they see on screen, not by naming interface elements. It is bigger than earlier sets and spans many Android versions and phones, testing new apps and updates.
Abstract
There is a growing interest in device-control systems that can interpret human natural language instructions and execute them on a digital device by directly controlling its user interface. We present a dataset for device-control research, Android in the Wild (AITW), which is orders of magnitude larger than current datasets. The dataset contains human demonstrations of device interactions, including the screens and actions, and corresponding natural language instructions. It consists of 715k episodes spanning 30k unique instructions, four versions of Android (v10-13),and eight device types (Pixel 2 XL to Pixel 6) with varying screen resolutions. It contains multi-step tasks that require semantic understanding of language and visual context. This dataset poses a new challenge: actions available through the user interface must be inferred from their visual appearance. And, instead of simple UI element-based actions, the action space consists of precise gestures (e.g., horizontal scrolls to operate carousel widgets). We organize our dataset to encourage robustness analysis of device-control systems, i.e., how well a system performs in the presence of new task descriptions, new applications, or new platform versions. We develop two agents and report performance across the dataset. The dataset is available at https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/master/android_in_the_wild.
Christopher Rawles, Alice Li, Daniel Rodriguez, Oriana Riva, Timothy Lillicrap
arXiv:2307.10088 · cs.LG, cs.CL, cs.HC · submitted Jul 19, 2023 · updated Oct 27, 2023
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