MaDS: Long-Horizon GUI Automation via Synergizing Dual-Layer Memory and Multi-Round Debate

Automating Graphical User Interface (GUI) operations with Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is promising but remains bottlenecked in real-world long-horizon settings. Key challenges include ensuring precise grounding across diverse interfaces and handling irreversible errors in extended workflows. Current methods often struggle to distinguish targets in low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) environments and lack sufficient preexecution verification to prevent error accumulation. To address this, we propose the Memory-augmented Debate System (MaDS). Specifically, MaDS combines: (1) a Dual-Layer Memory Module that integrates universal interaction priors with scenario-specific operational experience to mitigate grounding hallucinations; and (2) Multi-Round Debate that performs pre-execution verification, while transforming execution failures into retrievable Negative Warnings to reduce repeated errors. Additionally, we introduce MaDS-Benchmark, a benchmark for long-horizon mobile GUI tasks with process-oriented evaluation. Experiments show that MaDS achieves a 90.23% Task Success Rate on MaDS-Benchmark and strong performance on public benchmarks including AITW, AITZ, CAGUI, and GUIOdyssey.