Back to Basics: A Skill-Centric Approach to Generalist Web Agents
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arXiv:2606. 17645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) web agents are usually deployed as tool callers: each turn, the model reads a fresh page observation and emits one structured tool action.
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...
SCAFFOLD is a self‑improving framework for visual web agents that automatically induces parametric, executable skills from successful trajectories and organizes them into a recursively composed hierarchy. It compresses the skill library using a minimum‑description‑length criterion and behavioral equivalence checks, and periodically distills these skills back into model weights to internalize the abstractions. Experiments on WebArena, VisualWebArena, and Online‑Mind2Web show that SCAFFOLD raises success rates by 11.1–17.2 absolute points over the best skill‑augmented baseline and continues to improve across five self‑improvement iterations without collapsing the library.
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.
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...
Web agents that act from rendered pixels avoid the fragility and heavy token cost of reading a page's HTML or accessibility tree, but training them depends on large amounts of high-quality interaction...