ResearchResearch paperMultimodal Models1 source · Oct 19, 2026

Focused Omni-Modal GUI Agents

Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents increasingly act over streaming omni-modal observations spanning screenshots, audio, video, interaction history, and device states.

Key points

  • However, exposing this complete context uniformly at every step ignores that relevance is transient and sparse: the signal determining one action can become clutter at the next.
  • We formulate the underlying requirement as Focused Perception: a representation that is step-adaptive, action-sufficient, and non-intrusive.
  • We realize this in FocusGUI, a lightweight adapter that dynamically prioritizes multimodal channels against a step-specific decision reference.
  • FocusGUI trains from action supervision alone, requiring neither modality-relevance labels nor backbone fine-tuning.

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  • [1]Focused Omni-Modal GUI Agents
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 19, 11:30 AM
    Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents increasingly act over streaming omni-modal observations spanning screenshots, audio, video, interaction history, and device states.
    However, exposing this complete context uniformly at every step ignores that relevance is transient and sparse: the signal determining one action can become clutter at the next.

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