CVAISEApr 2

GPA: Learning GUI Process Automation from Demonstrations

arXiv:2604.0167694.8h-index: 35
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This addresses the fragility and non-deterministic risks in GUI automation for enterprise workflows, offering a more reliable and private solution.

The paper tackles the problem of GUI Process Automation by introducing a vision-based method that improves robustness and speed over existing approaches, achieving a higher success rate and 10 times faster execution speed in long-horizon tasks compared to Gemini 3 Pro.

GUI Process Automation (GPA) is a lightweight but general vision-based Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which enables fast and stable process replay with only a single demo. Addressing the fragility of traditional RPA and the non-deterministic risks of current vision language model-based GUI agents, GPA introduces three core benefits: (1) Robustness via Sequential Monte Carlo-based localization to handle rescaling and detection uncertainty; (2) Deterministic and Reliability safeguarded by readiness calibration; and (3) Privacy through fast, fully local execution. This approach delivers the adaptability, robustness, and security required for enterprise workflows. It can also be used as an MCP/CLI tool by other agents with coding capabilities so that the agent only reasons and orchestrates while GPA handles the GUI execution. We conducted a pilot experiment to compare GPA with Gemini 3 Pro (with CUA tools) and found that GPA achieves higher success rate with 10 times faster execution speed in finishing long-horizon GUI tasks.

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