DiMo-GUI: Advancing Test-time Scaling in GUI Grounding via Modality-Aware Visual Reasoning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00008v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 03:13:21 GMT
• Title: DiMo-GUI: Advancing Test-time Scaling in GUI Grounding via Modality-Aware Visual Reasoning
• Authors: Hang Wu, Hongkai Chen, Yujun Cai, Chang Liu, Qingwen Ye, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Yiwei Wang,
• Abstract summary: We introduce DiMo-GUI, a training-free framework for GUI grounding.<n>Instead of treating the GUI as a monolithic image, our method splits the input into textual elements and iconic elements.<n>When predictions are ambiguous or incorrect, DiMo-GUI dynamically focuses attention by generating candidate focal regions.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Grounding natural language queries in graphical user interfaces (GUIs) poses unique challenges due to the diversity of visual elements, spatial clutter, and the ambiguity of language. In this paper, we introduce DiMo-GUI, a training-free framework for GUI grounding that leverages two core strategies: dynamic visual grounding and modality-aware optimization. Instead of treating the GUI as a monolithic image, our method splits the input into textual elements and iconic elements, allowing the model to reason over each modality independently using general-purpose vision-language models. When predictions are ambiguous or incorrect, DiMo-GUI dynamically focuses attention by generating candidate focal regions centered on the model's initial predictions and incrementally zooms into subregions to refine the grounding result. This hierarchical refinement process helps disambiguate visually crowded layouts without the need for additional training or annotations. We evaluate our approach on standard GUI grounding benchmarks and demonstrate consistent improvements over baseline inference pipelines, highlighting the effectiveness of combining modality separation with region-focused reasoning.

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