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title = "{D}a{M}o: Data Mixing Optimizer in Fine-tuning Multimodal {LLM}s for Mobile Phone Agents",
author = "Shi, Kai and
Yang, Jun and
Yang, Ni and
Pan, Binqiang and
Xie, Qingsong and
Zhangchao and
Yang, Zhenyu and
Su, Tianhuang and
Lu, Haonan",
editor = "Liakata, Maria and
Moreira, Viviane P. and
Zhang, Jiajun and
Jurgens, David",
booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1439/",
pages = "28813--28830",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1",
abstract = "Mobile Phone Agents (MPAs) have emerged as a promising research direction due to their broad applicability across diverse scenarios. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) serve as the foundation for MPAs, their effectiveness in handling multiple mobile phone tasks simultaneously remains limited. Although multitask supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is widely adopted for multitask learning, existing approaches struggle to determine optimal training data compositions for peak performance. To address this challenge, we propose DaMo (Data Mixture Optimizer) {--} a novel solution employing a trainable network that predicts optimal data mixtures by forecasting downstream task performance for any given dataset ratio. To support comprehensive evaluation, we introduce PhoneAgentBench, the first specialized benchmark to evaluate MLLMs on multimodal mobile phone tasks, comprising 1,235 QA pairs spanning diverse real-world industrial mobile application scenarios. Demonstrating strong predictive capability (R{\texttwosuperior}=0.81) in small-scale pilot experiments, DaMo efficiently extrapolates optimal data mixing configurations. Our results show DaMo achieves 3.06{\%} average score improvement on PhoneAgentBench and open-source benchmarks, including BFCL-v3, MME-Reasoning, MME-Perception, and OCRBench, compared to alternative methods. Through predicting optimal data mixture only on open-source benchmarks, DaMo outperforms other approaches by 6.70{\%} in terms of average score. Moreover, DaMo improves the metrics by 12.74{\%} than other methods when used solely for MLLM optimization on the BFCL-v3 task. Notably, DaMo maintains robust scalability, preserving its effectiveness when applied to other model architectures."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T DaMo: Data Mixing Optimizer in Fine-tuning Multimodal LLMs for Mobile Phone Agents
%A Shi, Kai
%A Yang, Jun
%A Yang, Ni
%A Pan, Binqiang
%A Xie, Qingsong
%A Yang, Zhenyu
%A Su, Tianhuang
%A Lu, Haonan
%Y Liakata, Maria
%Y Moreira, Viviane P.
%Y Zhang, Jiajun
%Y Jurgens, David
%A Zhangchao
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, United States
%@ 979-8-89176-395-1
%F shi-etal-2026-damo
%X Mobile Phone Agents (MPAs) have emerged as a promising research direction due to their broad applicability across diverse scenarios. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) serve as the foundation for MPAs, their effectiveness in handling multiple mobile phone tasks simultaneously remains limited. Although multitask supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is widely adopted for multitask learning, existing approaches struggle to determine optimal training data compositions for peak performance. To address this challenge, we propose DaMo (Data Mixture Optimizer) – a novel solution employing a trainable network that predicts optimal data mixtures by forecasting downstream task performance for any given dataset ratio. To support comprehensive evaluation, we introduce PhoneAgentBench, the first specialized benchmark to evaluate MLLMs on multimodal mobile phone tasks, comprising 1,235 QA pairs spanning diverse real-world industrial mobile application scenarios. Demonstrating strong predictive capability (R²=0.81) in small-scale pilot experiments, DaMo efficiently extrapolates optimal data mixing configurations. Our results show DaMo achieves 3.06% average score improvement on PhoneAgentBench and open-source benchmarks, including BFCL-v3, MME-Reasoning, MME-Perception, and OCRBench, compared to alternative methods. Through predicting optimal data mixture only on open-source benchmarks, DaMo outperforms other approaches by 6.70% in terms of average score. Moreover, DaMo improves the metrics by 12.74% than other methods when used solely for MLLM optimization on the BFCL-v3 task. Notably, DaMo maintains robust scalability, preserving its effectiveness when applied to other model architectures.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1439/
%P 28813-28830
Markdown (Informal)
[DaMo: Data Mixing Optimizer in Fine-tuning Multimodal LLMs for Mobile Phone Agents](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1439/) (Shi et al., Findings 2026)
ACL
- Kai Shi, Jun Yang, Ni Yang, Binqiang Pan, Qingsong Xie, Zhangchao, Zhenyu Yang, Tianhuang Su, and Haonan Lu. 2026. DaMo: Data Mixing Optimizer in Fine-tuning Multimodal LLMs for Mobile Phone Agents. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, pages 28813–28830, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.