From Pixels to UI Actions: Learning to Follow Instructions via Graphical User Interfaces
Peter Shaw, Mandar Joshi, James Cohan, Jonathan Berant, Panupong Pasupat, Hexiang Hu, Urvashi Khandelwal, Kenton Lee
Abstract
Much of the previous work towards digital agents for graphical user interfaces (GUIs) has relied on text-based representations (derived from HTML or other structured data sources), which are not always readily available. These input representations have been often coupled with custom, task-specific action spaces. This paper focuses on creating agents that interact with the digital world using the same conceptual interface that humans commonly use — via pixel-based screenshots and a generic action space corresponding to keyboard and mouse actions. Building upon recent progress in pixel-based pretraining, we show, for the first time, that it is possible for such agents to outperform human crowdworkers on the MiniWob++ benchmark of GUI-based instruction following tasks.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{
shaw2023from,
title={From Pixels to {UI} Actions: Learning to Follow Instructions via Graphical User Interfaces},
author={Peter Shaw and Mandar Joshi and James Cohan and Jonathan Berant and Panupong Pasupat and Hexiang Hu and Urvashi Khandelwal and Kenton Lee and Kristina Toutanova},
booktitle={Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2023},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=3PjCt4kmRx}
}