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MintAct: A Unified Visual Agent for Digital Environments research paper by Apple, 2026

Apple · Sep 18, 2026 · Agents and evaluation · 0 citations · 32 upvotes · unverified

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We present MintAct, a family of vision-language models that unifies UI grounding, multi-step navigation across mobile, desktop, and web, and visual tool use, trained at 2B, 4B, and 8B scales.

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Authors
Mingfei Gao, Rui Tian, Haiming Gang and 11 more
arXiv
2609.22083 · PDF
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0, 0 influential · Semantic Scholar
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32 · Hugging Face
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