Research questionHow can GUI agents preserve task success while reducing context, computation, action, and runtime costs?GUI agents may complete tasks while consuming substantial visual context, memory, computation, actions, and runtime. Inconsistent reporting makes it difficult to compare their practical efficiency beyond success rates. Latest papersRecent research connected to this question, newest first.Efficient GUI Agents: A Systems Survey of Observation, Memory, Action, and Runtime OptimizationThe source surveys observation, context and memory, action, and planner or system efficiency in GUI agents. It synthesizes literature identified through targeted searches and citation chaining, and discusses verifier costs, benchmark comparability, latency, and privacy constraints without establishing a single standardized accounting method.research paper · Sep 2, 2026