arXiv AI

WebFovea: When the Model Is Right but the Click Is Wrong -- Reliable Round Trips for Vision-Based Web Agents on Live Websites

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 Computation and Language
Sep 24

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.

By Zhitong Guo, Jing Yu Koh, Ruiyu Li
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Cookie-Bench: Continuous On-screen Key Interaction Evaluation for Web Generation

arXiv:2605. 30000v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Front-end web code has become a core product surface for every frontier LLM release, yet evaluating these interactive applications at development speed remains costly because human-judged leaderboards like Arena do not scale.

By Haoyue Yang, Zhangxiao Shen, Fan Ding, Hangting Lou, Yifeng Kou, Haoqing Yu, Jingyao Li, Zhengfan Wu, Siqi Bao, Jing Liu, Hua Wu
arXiv AI
Aug 11

CAP: A Scalable Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-Site Browser Agents with Complex Actions and Perception

arXiv:2608. 08392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents that interact with the web through browsers.

By Zejun Xu, Taiyi Chen, Jin Li, Yongtong Gu, Qi Cheng, Aixuan Lv, Shuai Zhu, Pengfei Zhu, Kaichen Yang, Boyu Sun, Yixian Yang, Mulong Xie, Xin Liu, Dagang Li, Xiaoteng Ma, Hongru Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Wuying-Browser-Agent: Real-World Centric Fundamental Long-Horizon Browser Agents

Wuying-Browser-Agent is a unified framework designed to improve long-horizon browser agents by aligning execution, supervision, optimization, and evaluation. It introduces a structured browser harness, reflection and UI-specialized Curriculum SFT (RUIC‑SFT) for recovery and complex UI interactions, and Divergence‑Aware Online GRPO (DAO‑GRPO) for better credit assignment. The framework is evaluated on BrowserBench—a bilingual real‑web benchmark of 350 tasks—and achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on multiple browser‑use benchmarks, while also transferring well to other agentic tasks.

By AIMAE Team, Tianxiang Chen, Yan Cheng, Zhangye Han, Xiaowei Li, Chang Liu, Cheng Liu, Zhongqiang Ma, Long Peng, Xiaobing Tu, Yinggui Wang, Hongliang Wei, Chen Wu, Daiping Xin, Kunyu Zhou, Pengyang Zhou, Peiyuan Chen, Ziyuan Chen, Yutao Deng, Chunyu Dong, Xiangyu Fu, Yicheng Feng, Ruian He, Haochen Li, Miancan Liu, Zhengqin Liu, Wei Peng, Jinkui Ren, Haoyu Tan, Dong Xiao, Rongkun Xue, Shujian Yang, Xianhang Ye, Ziqi Yuan, Ziyang Yu, Linghan Zhang, Xiantao Zhang, Xuanpu Zhao, Yinan Zhao, Zhenghui Zhao, Bin Zhu, Likai Zou
arXiv AI
Jun 30

When Web Agents Finish but Still Fail: Reproducible Triggers and Trace Diagnostics for Parallel Web Exploration

arXiv:2606. 20724v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon web agents often fail in ways hidden by final-answer evaluation: they may visit useful pages, produce a well-formed answer, and terminate confidently while still missing fields, over-including unsupported items, or relying on stale evidence.

By Aagam Sogani, Botao Rui, Swetha Vaidyanathan, Rishi Agarwal, Minghao Yan, Shivaram Venkataraman