World of Bits: An Open-Domain Platform for Web-Based Agents
Introduces World of Bits, a web-task platform combining human demonstrations, keyboard and mouse actions, and cached HTTP traffic for repeatable task environments. It evaluates agents trained through behavioral cloning and reinforcement learning.
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- Topics
- web-navigation, reinforcement-learning, evaluation, data-generation
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- 2017-07-17
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Tianlin Shi, Andrej Karpathy, Linxi Fan, Jonathan Hernandez, Percy Liang
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- Title
- World of Bits: An Open-Domain Platform for Web-Based Agents
- Authors
- Tianlin Shi, Andrej Karpathy, Linxi Fan, Jonathan Hernandez, Percy Liang
- Publication date (recorded precision)
- 2017-07-17
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning
- Publisher
- PMLR
- Series
- Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
- Volume
- 70
- Pages
- 3135-3144
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