arXiv:2608. 06474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly generate complete websites from natural-language descriptions, and reinforcement learning has become a central approach to closing their remaining functional gap.
By Boshui Chen, Huiping Liu, Shaolei Zhang
arXiv:2610.16319v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Real-world hybrid web tasks need both information gathering and page interaction, yet search-based and operation-based agents are developed and evaluat...
By Zijian Cai, Haowei Liu, Kailai Chen, Lin Peng, Cong Wan, Ziqi Zhang, Chunfeng Yuan, Bing Li, Weiming Hu, Haiyang Xu
The paper introduces WebMRE, an offline benchmark comprising 541 tasks and 5,293 steps extracted from WebArena trajectories, designed to provide deterministic scoring for web agents without live environments. It enables the first systematic study of how guide sentences and grounded actions reinforce each other, showing that jointly decoding a guide improves element selection accuracy and that the guide acts as a causal instruction channel. The authors fine‑tune models that outperform leading zero‑shot baselines on all offline metrics.
By Chengguang Gan, Yunhao Liang, QingHao Zhang, Shiwen Ni
Web$hell is a unified interface that consolidates various web access methods—search, browser actions, and filesystem interactions—into a single model for large language model agents. It uses a WebContract schema to compile live webpages into addressable information and action objects, which are stored in a WebCache and manipulated through shared operations. Experiments across search, navigation, and research tasks show that Web$hell delivers strong performance at lower cost, highlighting the role of interface design in enhancing agentic web access.
By Sunghwan Kim, Deogyong Kim, Sangam Lee, Donguk Kwon, Dongha Lee
arXiv:2605.14290v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: ReAct has become the default architecture across LLM agents, and many existing web agents follow this paradigm. We argue that it is the wrong...
By Julien Piet, Annabella Chow, Yiwei Hou, Muxi Lyu, Sylvie Venuto, Jinhao Zhu, Raluca Ada Popa, David Wagner
arXiv:2609.35814v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: As browser-use agents improve, benchmarks keep pace by collecting new tasks, websites, and applications, often making tasks longer or more novel. Thi...
By Xunjian Yin, Tianchen Guan, Jinao Wang, Weili Cao, Daisy Xinlei Lin, Royce Cheng-Yue, Keagan Long, Kyle Wong, Bhuwan Dhingra, Xiangjun Wang, Shuyan Zhou
arXiv:2610.08773v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Web agents complete user requests by reading and acting on pages that third parties write, so an instruction planted on a page can redirect the agent...
By Sarim Hashmi, Mukul Ranjan, Kshitij Mishra, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Praneeth Vepakomma, Nils Lukas
arXiv:2610.35823v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Browser agents do not just need more practice. They need to practice the right things. We introduce MiniWeb, a realistic miniature of the web comprisin...
By Minh Pham-Dinh, Md Farhan Ishmam, Hernan Yupanqui, Reaz Hassan Joarder, Kenneth Marino
The paper introduces a method for safely retiring procedural guidance in AI agents that control physical actions. It proposes matched authority counterfactuals and a two‑gate retirement certificate to ensure that reductions preserve authorized utility while eliminating unauthorized protected effects. Experiments across multiple models and skill bundles show that task‑certified reductions can remove most skill clauses, but only a combined protocol passes both utility and safety gates in all tested configurations.
By Zhonghao Zhan, Xiao Ma, Hamed Haddadi
arXiv:2604. 06367v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Web agents automate browser tasks, ranging from simple form completion to complex workflows like ordering groceries.
By Guruprasad Viswanathan Ramesh, Asmit Nayak, Basieem Siddique, Kassem Fawaz
arXiv:2610.35215v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Web agents reuse skills whose stored code, selected version, and loaded implementation can diverge across tasks and updates. SkillLifeBench links the...
By Chenxu Zhang, Zhou Liu, Wu Xin, Wentao Zhang
arXiv:2608.23067v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Agent Skills are reusable procedural modules that are increasingly injected into coding-agent sessions to encode framework conventions, anti-patterns,...
By Ziyue Yang, Fan Ding