EcoAgent: An Efficient Device-Cloud Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Mobile Automation

Understand

To tackle increasingly complex tasks, recent research on mobile agents has shifted towards multi-agent collaboration.

• Current mobile multi-agent systems are primarily deployed in the cloud, leading to high latency and operational costs.
• A straightforward idea is to deploy a device-cloud collaborative multi-agent system, which is nontrivial, as directly extending existing systems introduces new challenges: (1) reliance on cloud-side verification requires uploading mobile screenshots, compromising user privacy; and (2) open-loop cooperation lacking device-to-cloud feedback, underutilizing device resources and increasing latency.
• To overcome these limitations, we propose EcoAgent, a closed-loop device-cloud collaborative multi-agent framework designed for privacy-aware, efficient, and responsive mobile automation.