MobileDreamer: Phones that imagine the next screen

Kari Jaaskelainen

08 Jan 2026 — 1 min read

Today’s mobile assistants often react to whatever is on the screen, which makes long, multi-step tasks hard. MobileDreamer introduces a way for GUI agents to look ahead by imagining what the phone will look like after each tap or swipe.

How it works: It turns screenshots into compact sketches that capture key UI elements and where they are, then predicts the next sketch for a candidate action. An order-invariant learning strategy preserves spatial relationships without relying on element order.
Why it matters: With fast rollouts, the agent can test actions in its head before acting, choosing the step that best advances the task.
Results: On the AndroidWorld benchmark, MobileDreamer sets a new state of the art, boosting task success by 5.25%. Evaluations show the model accurately forecasts important GUI elements.
Big picture: A practical, efficient world model brings real planning to mobile automation—moving from reactive tapping to purposeful, multi-step execution.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04035v1

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04035v1

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