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Zhixiang Chi

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Preprint Aug 2026

From Visual Widgets to UI Code: Efficient Tool-Grounded Generation

Existing screenshot-to-code systems face a trade-off between flexibility and controllability. Direct multimodal generation can hallucinate visible details, whereas structured pipelines reduce such errors through component-wise decomposition, predefined templates, and customized intermediate representations. These structures, however, introduce additional generative orchestration and restrict outputs to designs covered by the representation. We investigate whether selective tool grounding can improve the fidelity--efficiency trade-off of direct widget-to-code generation. We introduce \textbf{WidgetGen}, a lightweight tool-grounded framework that extracts observable text and color evidence, performs high-level layout and optional chart reasoning, and directly generates executable JavaScript XML (\emph{JSX}). This design reduces reliance on component-wise generation while avoiding a fixed UI schema. Across six multimodal models and \(1{,}000\) held-out widgets, WidgetGen outperforms direct prompting and the structured Widget2Code pipeline on most visual reconstruction metrics, with consistent gains in area, legibility, and style. Finally, reconstruction-derived image-code pairs improve six Qwen-family open-weight models across every reported metric through supervised fine-tuning. These results establish WidgetGen as a strong lightweight baseline and show that selective evidence grounding offers an effective alternative to extensive representation constraints.

Houston H. Zhang, Tao Zhang, Li Gu et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Benchmarking LLM Judges for Mobile Agent Evaluation

Mobile agent benchmarks increasingly rely on LLM-based judges to evaluate task completion, yet the reliability of these judges on mobile agent trajectories remains largely unexamined. We introduce MobileJudgeBench, a benchmark for systematically evaluating LLM-as-judge methods on mobile agent trajectories. Our benchmark comprises 931 human-annotated trajectories spanning 6 mobile agent benchmarks, 4 agent models, and 68 apps. We evaluate 6 judge methods (five adapted from SPA-Bench, A3 with two modes, AndroidArena, and AgentRewardBench, plus a simple baseline we design) across multiple LLM backends. Our experiments reveal three key findings. First, a simple baseline judge with sampled screenshots is competitive with, and often exceeds, purpose-built methods, indicating that more elaborate judge pipelines do not consistently improve judge quality; among competitive methods, the LLM backbone is the primary driver. Second, benchmark quality metrics reliably predict real-world judge utility: they correlate with both agent ranking fidelity for evaluation and downstream performance when judges serve as reward signals for on-policy reinforcement learning. Third, failure analysis across two LLM backends uncovers qualitatively opposite failure profiles, one conservative and the other permissive, linked to the backbone's precision-recall characteristics.

Ziqiang Wan, Li Gu, Zhixiang Chi et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

DA-MergeLoRA: Hypernetwork-Based LoRA Merging for Few-Shot Test-Time Domain Adaptation

A new FSTT-DA framework that integrates LoRA fine-tuning with model merging and proposes a hypernetwork trained via meta-learning that generates per-column merging factors to combine LoRA modules to adapt the learned knowledge to a specific target domain.

Siobhan Reid, Zhixiang Chi, Li Gu et al. · 0 citations

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