Discriminative World Models for Web Agents
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The paper introduces Discriminative World Models for Web Agents, proposing a predicted-state matching objective that trains world models to produce representations that can distinguish the true resulting state from those of alternative actions. Using a branching dataset from WebArena Go-Browse, the authors demonstrate that this approach outperforms traditional supervised next-state prediction on a held‑out benchmark and improves action ranking on WebPRMBench. Additionally, employing the discriminative world model for test‑time action selection boosts end‑to‑end task success on WebArena‑Lite.
The paper introduces a new training paradigm for text-based world models that prioritizes behavior consistency over traditional state consistency metrics. It proposes the Behavior Consistency Reward (BehR), a step-level metric that evaluates how the likelihood of a logged next action changes between real and predicted states using a frozen Reference Agent. Experiments on WebShop and TextWorld demonstrate that BehR-based training improves long-term alignment, reduces false positives in offline evaluation, and yields modest gains in lookahead planning while maintaining or enhancing single-step prediction quality.
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