PointerBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Fine-Grained GUI Grounding

No. 113 of 245 · arXiv · Valentino Sacco, Saurabh Pandey, Alexander Florian Jercher, Maximilian Schilling · published 23 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC · 30 min read

AI & machine learning
Paper

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PointerBench is a diagnostic benchmark of 1,500 screenshot-instruction pairs that tests fine-grained GUI grounding, separate from long-horizon task completion. It covers spreadsheet sub-element geometry, character-level text targets, and mixed targets across 100 professional applications, with pixel-exact target geometry and public code.

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Score

0.65total under rubric v2.0Contestedjudges differ by 0.43 on significance, 0.43 on reader interest

Significance0.58
Reader interest0.69
Audience breadth0.56
Practical relevance0.66
Substantiated0.86
Technical depth0.87
New information0.82
Counts against: Promotional0.06
Counts against: Overclaim0.19

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

Question	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Mean	Spread	Weight	Contribution (weight times mean)
Significance	0.60	0.35	0.78	0.58	0.43 , above the contested threshold	+0.25	+0.145
Reader interest	0.64	0.50	0.93	0.69	0.43 , above the contested threshold	+0.20	+0.138
Audience breadth	0.55	0.50	0.62	0.56	0.12	+0.10	+0.056
Practical relevance	0.68	0.55	0.76	0.66	0.21	+0.15	+0.100
Substantiated	0.99	0.70	0.88	0.86	0.29	+0.10	+0.086
Technical depth	0.97	0.70	0.93	0.87	0.27	+0.10	+0.087
New information	0.88	0.60	0.99	0.82	0.39	+0.10	+0.082
Promotional	0.06	0.10	0.01	0.06	0.09	−0.15	−0.009
Overclaim	0.20	0.30	0.08	0.19	0.22	−0.15	−0.029
Sum of contributions							+0.655
Claim-check penalty							0.000
Total, as published							0.655

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

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