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Mano: Multi-Modal Foundation Model and 3-Stage RL for SOTA GUI Automation (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: Mano is a computer-control agent trained on practice tasks inside a fake desktop, then taught step by step to click and type correctly, with a checker that catches and fixes its own mistakes. It completed more real GUI tasks successfully than leading vision-based agents.

Abstract · Mano Technical Report

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are the primary medium for human-computer interaction, yet automating GUI interactions remains challenging due to the complexity of visual elements, dynamic environments, and the need for multi-step reasoning. Existing methods based on vision-language models (VLMs) often suffer from limited resolution, domain mismatch, and insufficient sequential decisionmaking capability. To address these issues, we propose Mano, a robust GUI agent built upon a multi-modal foundation model pre-trained on extensive web and computer system data. Our approach integrates a novel simulated environment for high-fidelity data generation, a three-stage training pipeline (supervised fine-tuning, offline reinforcement learning, and online reinforcement learning), and a verification module for error recovery. Mano demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on multiple GUI benchmarks, including Mind2Web and OSWorld, achieving significant improvements in success rate and operational accuracy. Our work provides new insights into the effective integration of reinforcement learning with VLMs for practical GUI agent deployment, highlighting the importance of domain-specific data, iterative training, and holistic reward design.

Tianyu Fu, Anyang Su, Chenxu Zhao, Hanning Wang, Minghui Wu, Zhe Yu, Fei Hu, Mingjia Shi, Wei Dong, Jiayao Wang, Yuyang Chen, Ruiyang Yu, et al.
arXiv:2509.17336 · cs.MM, cs.CL, cs.CV · submitted Sep 22, 2025 · updated Oct 31, 2025
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