Foundations and Recent Trends in Multimodal Mobile Agents: A Survey
It provides a comprehensive overview for researchers and practitioners in AI and robotics, but it is incremental as it synthesizes existing work rather than presenting new findings.
This survey reviews mobile agent technologies, focusing on recent advancements in real-time adaptability and multimodal interaction, and categorizes them into prompt-based and training-based methods.
Mobile agents are essential for automating tasks in complex and dynamic mobile environments. As foundation models evolve, the demands for agents that can adapt in real-time and process multimodal data have grown. This survey provides a comprehensive review of mobile agent technologies, focusing on recent advancements that enhance real-time adaptability and multimodal interaction. Recent evaluation benchmarks have been developed better to capture the static and interactive environments of mobile tasks, offering more accurate assessments of agents' performance. We then categorize these advancements into two main approaches: prompt-based methods, which utilize large language models (LLMs) for instruction-based task execution, and training-based methods, which fine-tune multimodal models for mobile-specific applications. Additionally, we explore complementary technologies that augment agent performance. By discussing key challenges and outlining future research directions, this survey offers valuable insights for advancing mobile agent technologies. A comprehensive resource list is available at https://github.com/aialt/awesome-mobile-agents