Naive Visual Memory is Not Enough: A Failure-Mode Study of GUI Agents
Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents are increasingly used to automate complex computer tasks across applications, websites, and operating systems. To improve their reliability, recent work has introduced experiential memory, where agents retrieve prior trajectories to guide decision-making in similar states. More recent approaches further extend this idea to visual memory by storing and retrieving screenshots from past interactions, providing agents with richer contextual information than text-only memories. However, the effect of visual memory in GUI agents remains insufficiently understood: it is unclear which failures visual memory mitigates, or which failures it exacerbates. To syst...
| Authors | Seoyoung Choi, Minseok Ko, Hyunseok Lee et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.MA |
| Published | 12 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 12 June 2026 |
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