UI-Voyager: A Self-Evolving GUI Agent Learning via Failed Experience

UI-Voyager is a novel two-stage self-evolving mobile GUI agent fine-tuned from Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct. Our 4B model achieves a 81.0% success rate on the AndroidWorld benchmark, outperforming numerous recent baselines and exceeding human-level performance.

Overview of UI-Voyager performance on AndroidWorld

Highlights

• 🏆 State-of-the-Art Performance: Achieves 81.0% success rate on AndroidWorld, surpassing human-level performance.
• 🔄 Self-Evolving: A two-stage training paradigm that learns from failed experiences to continuously improve.
• 📱 Mobile GUI Agent: Specialized for operating mobile device interfaces — recognizing UI elements, understanding functions, and completing tasks autonomously.
• 🧠 Built on Qwen3-VL-4B: Inherits the powerful vision-language capabilities of Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct, including advanced visual perception, OCR, and multimodal reasoning.

Model Details

Attribute	Detail
Base Model	Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
Parameters	~4B
License	MIT
Task	Mobile GUI Agent / Image-Text-to-Text
Benchmark	AndroidWorld
Success Rate	81.0%

Evaluation on AndroidWorld

For full evaluation instructions using AndroidWorld with parallel emulators, please refer to our GitHub repository.

# Start parallel evaluation (4 emulators)
NUM_WORKERS=4 CONFIG_NAME=UI-Voyager MODEL_NAME=UI-Voyager ./run_android_world.sh

Citation

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@misc{lin2026uivoyager,
      title={UI-Voyager: A Self-Evolving GUI Agent Learning via Failed Experience}, 
      author={Zichuan Lin and Feiyu Liu and Yijun Yang and Jiafei Lyu and Yiming Gao and Yicheng Liu and Zhicong Lu and Yangbin Yu and Mingyu Yang and Junyou Li and Deheng Ye and Jie Jiang},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2603.24533},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24533}, 
}