GUing: A Mobile GUI Search Engine using a Vision-Language Model

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Authors: Jialiang Wei, Anne-Lise Courbis, Thomas Lambolais, Binbin Xu, Pierre Louis Bernard, Gérard Dray, Walid Maalej
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Abstract

We introduce GUing, a GUI search engine that allows developers to retrieve relevant app designs using natural language queries. This system is powered by GUIClip, a specialized vision-language model trained on a novel dataset of 135k screenshots and captions extracted from Google Play. By integrating both visual and textual data, this approach significantly outperforms traditional text-only models, delivering high accuracy for text-to-GUI retrieval.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Information Retrieval and Search Behavior Software Engineering Research Usability and User Interface Design

Publication details

Journal / source
Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN