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Training a Vision Language Model as Smartphone Assistant (arxiv.org)
3 points by PaulHoule on Apr 23, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A vision-language model drives a smartphone by looking at screenshots and tapping or swiping like a person, remembering past screens and actions instead of judging only the current one. It showed promising results on a tough set of real Android phone tasks.

Abstract

Addressing the challenge of a digital assistant capable of executing a wide array of user tasks, our research focuses on the realm of instruction-based mobile device control. We leverage recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and present a visual language model (VLM) that can fulfill diverse tasks on mobile devices. Our model functions by interacting solely with the user interface (UI). It uses the visual input from the device screen and mimics human-like interactions, encompassing gestures such as tapping and swiping. This generality in the input and output space allows our agent to interact with any application on the device. Unlike previous methods, our model operates not only on a single screen image but on vision-language sentences created from sequences of past screenshots along with corresponding actions. Evaluating our method on the challenging Android in the Wild benchmark demonstrates its promising efficacy and potential.

Nicolai Dorka, Janusz Marecki, Ammar Anwar
arXiv:2404.08755 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.HC · submitted Apr 12, 2024
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