AI RESEARCH
Towards GUI Agents: Vision-Language Diffusion Models for GUI Grounding
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.26211v1 Announce Type: cross Autoregressive (AR) vision-language models (VLMs) have long dominated multimodal understanding, reasoning, and graphical user interface (GUI) grounding. Recently, discrete diffusion vision-language models (DVLMs) have shown strong performance in multimodal reasoning, offering bidirectional attention, parallel token generation, and iterative refinement. However, their potential for GUI grounding remains unexplored. In this work, we evaluate whether discrete DVLMs can serve as a viable alternative to AR models for GUI grounding.