GUI-Reflection: Empowering Multimodal GUI Models with Self-Reflection Behavior

Ziwei Liu (Nanyang Technological University) · Bo Wang (Sensetime) · Lewei Lu (SenseTime) · Penghao Wu (Nanyang Technological University) · Shengnan Ma (Sensetime) · Jiaheng Yu (Miromind)
adaptable gui agentsend-to-end modelserror correctionerror recoverygui automationgui-reflection task suiteintelligent systemsiterative online reflection tuningmobile devicesmultimodal large language modelsoffline supervised fine-tuningonline reflection tuningreflection-oriented abilitiesrobust automationscalable data pipelinesself-reflection

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown great potential in revolutionizing Graphical User Interface (GUI) automation. However, existing GUI models mostly rely on learning from nearly error-free offline trajectories, thus lacking reflection and error recovery capabilities. To bridge this gap, we propose GUI-Reflection, a novel framework that explicitly integrates self-reflection and error correction capabilities into end-to-end multimodal GUI models throughout dedicated training stages: GUI-specific pre-training, offline supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and online reflection tuning. GUI-reflection enables self-reflection behavior emergence with fully automated data generation and learning processes without requiring any human annotation. Specifically, 1) we first propose scalable data pipelines to automatically construct reflection and error correction data from existing successful trajectories. While existing GUI models mainly focus on grounding and UI understanding ability, we propose the GUI-Reflection Task Suite to learn and evaluate reflection-oriented abilities explicitly. 2) Furthermore, we built a diverse and efficient environment for online training and data collection of GUI models on mobile devices. 3) We also present an iterative online reflection tuning algorithm leveraging the proposed environment, enabling the model to continuously enhance its reflection and error correction abilities. Our framework equips GUI agents with self-reflection and correction capabilities, paving the way for more robust, adaptable, and intelligent GUI automation, with all data, models, environments, and tools to be released publicly.