arXiv AI By Thassilo M. Schiepanski, Nicholas Pi\"el

Beyond Pixels: Exploring DOM Downsampling for LLM-Based Web Agents

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arXiv:2508. 04412v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The advent of large language models (LLMs) has sparked an evolution of autonomous web browsing agents: given a web browsing task and serialised user interface (UI) state, an LLM is expected to suggest input actions that incrementally solve the given task.

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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