arXiv Computation and Language

Improving LLM-based Autonomous Web Agents with Filtering

The paper investigates how to improve large language model (LLM) based autonomous web agents by filtering irrelevant webpage content. The authors reproduce baseline models on the WebArena benchmark and identify failure modes caused by raw HTML input. They propose DeBERTa‑ and T5‑based retrieval models that rank HTML elements by relevance, fine‑tuned on Mind2Web data, and demonstrate that the DeBERTa model raises the LLaMA‑2‑70B agent’s success rate from 1.97% to 2.96%. Additionally, a zero‑shot ColBERT retriever achieves recall of 0.52 on Mind2Web and 0.47 on WebArena.

arXiv AI
Aug 11

WebChoreArena: Evaluating Web Browsing Agents on Realistic Tedious Web Tasks

arXiv:2506. 01952v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Powered by large language models (LLMs), web browsing agents operate graphical user interfaces in a human-like manner, offering a transparent and general framework for automating web-based tasks.

By Atsuyuki Miyai, Zaiying Zhao, Kazuki Egashira, Atsuki Sato, Tatsumi Sunada, Shota Onohara, Hiromasa Yamanishi, Mashiro Toyooka, Kunato Nishina, Ryoma Maeda, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Toshihiko Yamasaki
arXiv AI
Sep 1

WebXSkill: Skill Learning for Autonomous Web Agents

arXiv:2604.13318v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous web agents powered by large language models (LLMs) remain brittle on long-horizon browser workflows. A key bottleneck is a grounding gap...

By Zhaoyang Wang, Qianhui Wu, Xuchao Zhang, Chaoyun Zhang, Wenlin Yao, Fazle Elahi Faisal, Baolin Peng, Si Qin, Suman Nath, Qingwei Lin, Chetan Bansal, Dongmei Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan, Jianfeng Gao, Huaxiu Yao
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

FocusAgent: Simple Yet Effective Ways of Trimming the Large Context of Web Agents

arXiv:2510.03204v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Web agents powered by large language models (LLMs) must process lengthy web page observations to complete user goals; these pages often exceed tens...

By Imene Kerboua, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Megh Thakkar, Xing Han L\`u, L\'eo Boisvert, Massimo Caccia, J\'er\'emy Espinas, Alexandre Aussem, V\'eronique Eglin, Alexandre Lacoste
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

OpenWebRL: Demystifying Online Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning for Visual Web Agents

Building capable visual web agents requires long-horizon reasoning, precise grounding, and robust interaction with dynamic real-world websites. Despite rapid progress, the strongest systems remain largely proprietary, while open agents still depend heavily on supervised post-training over large collections of curated web trajectories.