{
  "id": "2504.13936",
  "title": "ViMo: A Generative Visual GUI World Model for App Agents",
  "authors": "Dezhao Luo, Bohan Tang, Kang Li, Georgios Papoudakis, Jifei Song, Shaogang Gong, Jianye Hao, Jun Wang, Kun Shao",
  "first_public": "2025-04-15",
  "first_public_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13936",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2504.13936",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13936",
  "lens": [
    "gui-planning"
  ],
  "related_terms": [
    "ViMo",
    "GUI world model",
    "next-screen prediction",
    "mobile app simulation"
  ],
  "summary": "Predicts future mobile-app screens to help agents compare possible actions, separating graphic content from textual content.",
  "contribution": "Uses symbolic text placeholders to preserve layout while assigning graphical and text prediction to separate components.",
  "limitations": "The experiments predict mobile-app screens for agent planning.",
  "model_output": "Future mobile GUI images assembled from graphics and text predictions.",
  "action_interface": "Candidate mobile-app actions.",
  "state_memory": "Screen-and-action-conditioned prediction; symbolic text representation retains text locations and layout.",
  "relationship": "Visual GUI world-model research released in April 2025, before NeuralOS's July 2025 preprint.",
  "relationship_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13936",
  "author_names": [
    "Dezhao Luo",
    "Bohan Tang",
    "Kang Li",
    "Georgios Papoudakis",
    "Jifei Song",
    "Shaogang Gong",
    "Jianye Hao",
    "Jun Wang",
    "Kun Shao"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://neural-os.com/reading-list/papers/2504.13936/",
  "legacy_record_url": "https://neural-os.com/reading-list/papers/#paper-2504-13936",
  "citation_date": "2025-04-15",
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  "markdown_url": "https://neural-os.com/reading-list/papers/2504.13936/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://neural-os.com/reading-list/papers/2504.13936/citation.bib",
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