ScreenLLM: Stateful Screen Schema for Efficient Action Understanding and Prediction

Apr 30, 2025·
Yiqiao Jin
Yiqiao Jin
,
Gang Wu
,
Yu Shen
,
Stefano Petrangeli
· 1 min read
Abstract
We introduce ScreenLLM, a specialized multimodal LLM for Graphical User Interface (GUI) understanding and action prediction. ScreenLLM proposes a stateful screen schema that represents dynamic user sessions as compact, time-aware textual summaries, and a high-efficiency key-frame extraction method based on second-order pixel changes to isolate significant UI transitions such as pop-up menus. Fine-tuning open-source MLLMs on high-resolution software tutorials with this schema substantially improves action prediction over strong baselines.
Type
Publication
The Web Conference 2025, MM4SG Workshop

Abstract

We introduce ScreenLLM, a specialized multimodal LLM for Graphical User Interface (GUI) understanding and action prediction. ScreenLLM proposes a stateful screen schema that represents dynamic user sessions as compact, time-aware textual summaries, and a high-efficiency key-frame extraction method based on second-order pixel changes to isolate significant UI transitions.

Yiqiao Jin
Authors
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
My research sits at the intersection of multimodal foundation models, intelligent agents, and spatial/physical intelligence. I build general-purpose models that perceive, reason, learn, and act in interactive virtual and physical environments.