Do GUI Agents Know When Not to Act? Enabling Conflict-Aware Termination for Multimodal GUI Agents
The agent side (2609.03438, "Do GUI Agents Know When Not to Act?"). CONFLICTGUI, a benchmark of instruction-internal and instruction-context conflicts, reveals execution-biased overcompliance: agents that perform well on feasible tasks continue to execute blindly under conflicting instructions. CONFLICTGUARD, an inference-time framework, is the repair.
What the source reports
The agent side (2609.03438, "Do GUI Agents Know When Not to Act?"). CONFLICTGUI, a benchmark of instruction-internal and instruction-context conflicts, reveals execution-biased overcompliance: agents that perform well on feasible tasks continue to execute blindly under conflicting instructions. CONFLICTGUARD, an inference-time framework, is the repair. The evaluation reading is the sharp part: no mainstream agent benchmark rewards not acting - so restraint never develops as a trained property.
Original source
- Title
- Do GUI Agents Know When Not to Act? Enabling Conflict-Aware Termination for Multimodal GUI Agents
- Author
- Huang, Ju, Cheng, Wu, Li, Song, Lan, Zhu, Wang, Zhang
- Publication
- arXiv