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Presents WebForge, a pipeline that plans, generates, refines and validates self-contained interactive websites. WebForge-Bench uses these environments to evaluate browser agents across domains and controlled difficulty levels.
Presents MolmoWebMix, combining synthetic browser trajectories, human demonstrations and GUI perception data, and MolmoWeb screenshot-to-action policies trained from it. Browser benchmarks also test parallel rollouts with best-of-N selection.
WebSP-Eval evaluates agents carrying out website security and privacy tasks such as preference changes and session management. A browser extension controls account and initial state across runs, enabling analysis of failures on stateful UI controls.
Studies persistent web-agent memory contamination introduced through environmental observations instead of direct memory access. Experiments on WebArena and VisualWebArena examine cross-session effects and how interaction failures alter susceptibility.
Audits sources of ambiguity and operational variation in WebVoyager evaluation and introduces standardized guidance for task setup, failure handling, annotation and reporting. Emergence WebVoyager applies this protocol to a web-agent evaluation.
Introduces WebTestBench for end-to-end website testing, separating checklist generation from defect detection. Its WebTester baseline evaluates test coverage, detection and sustained interaction across web application categories.
Proposes a split-compute browser defense pairing a local visual sentinel, a cloud planner, and deterministic policy enforcement against indirect prompt injection.
Ego2Web pairs first-person videos with online tasks that require agents to connect the user’s physical context to web actions. It also evaluates an automatic task judge against human judgments and analyzes failures in video understanding and web execution.
Turns draft web-agent skills into structured executable artifacts that support deterministic checks, fault localization and local repair. VisualWebArena and MiniWoB experiments examine execution and reuse within the same benchmark family.
Presents a man-in-the-middle network red-teaming framework for evaluating autonomous OpenClaw agents under live traffic manipulation.
Introduces WebFactory, a GUI-agent training pipeline that synthesizes websites, generates tasks and trajectories, and trains with decomposed rewards. Offline and online transfer evaluations examine agents trained on the generated environments.
TimeWarp tests web agents across multiple versions of the same sites, varying visual design, frontend code and workflows. TimeTraj transfers plans across versions to collect training trajectories and study robustness to interface change.
Identifies time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race vulnerabilities when web pages mutate between agent planning and action execution.
ActionEngine explores web applications to build an updateable state-machine memory of GUI states, operations and transitions. It generates complete task programs from that memory, using reactive repair to handle changed interfaces or missing knowledge.
CowCorpus records interleaved human and agent actions during web navigation and identifies distinct patterns of user intervention. Models trained to anticipate these interventions are integrated into live web agents and assessed in a user study.
Persona2Web tests whether web agents can resolve ambiguous requests using preferences implicit in a user’s history. Its reasoning-aware evaluation compares agent architectures and history-access strategies on personalized tasks on the open web.
EmbeWebAgent embeds agent access into existing web applications through frontend observations and a page-specific function registry. Its workflow combines GUI primitives, composite actions and MCP tools, demonstrated in a live interface.
AutoWebWorld turns finite-state task models into interactive websites whose actions and goal states can be checked programmatically. It generates verified trajectories for training and evaluates transfer to WebVoyager and Online-Mind2Web.
OpAgent combines multi-task GUI fine-tuning with online web reinforcement learning using outcome judgments and rule-based progress rewards. A modular planner, grounder, reflector and summarizer support navigation and recovery, evaluated separately from the underlying trained policy.
Formalizes and measures natural agentic oversharing when browser agents handle private user emails and calendars across live websites.
This work uses constraint-based progress evaluation to retain partially successful web trajectories for training. It introduces BookingArena for structured booking tasks and studies a distilled agent trained with the resulting data.
CATTS allocates additional inference computation when an agent’s action votes show uncertainty. The paper compares voting and arbiter strategies and evaluates this selective scaling on WebArena-Lite, Online-Mind2Web and GoBrowse.
Introduces MIRAGE, a web decision benchmark where agents must actively uncover evidence that can contradict the visible context. Separate investigation, reasoning, decision, and hallucination measures diagnose failures beyond reaching the right page.
WebSentinel identifies suspicious webpage segments and checks each against its surrounding page context to detect and locate prompt injections. Its evaluation uses both contaminated and clean webpage datasets.
Avenir-Web combines multiple grounding specialists with procedural experience, a task checklist and adaptive memory. It evaluates this planning and execution framework on live Online-Mind2Web tasks.
DynaWeb learns a world model that predicts web-page representations after actions and uses it to generate policy-training rollouts. It interleaves these rollouts with expert trajectories and evaluates the trained web agents on WebArena and WebVoyager.
Introduces VAF, a controlled pipeline that varies webpage appearance while retaining item semantics. It measures both agent clicks and reasoning references to study which visual design factors change browsing decisions.
WebArbiter generates reasoned action-preference verdicts for web navigation, using reasoning distillation followed by reinforcement learning. It introduces WebPRMBench and evaluates both preference judgments and reward-guided trajectory search.
ExpSeek uses step-level entropy signals to decide when a web agent should request experience-based guidance. It supplies guidance tailored to the current step and evaluates the intervention across web-agent benchmarks.
Introduces WebTrap Park, a platform that turns web-agent security risks into executable tasks and assesses concrete interactions with live pages. It compares agent frameworks without requiring modifications to their implementations.
Studies deceptive social-engineering web patterns targeting browser automation agents and proposes defenses against bait-based manipulation.
ColorBrowserAgent converts human feedback into reusable website knowledge and uses that knowledge to guide progressive context summaries. It evaluates the resulting memory and adaptation mechanisms on long browser workflows.
WebGym supplies realistic web tasks with rubric-based evaluation and an asynchronous rollout system for reinforcement learning. It studies how training on an agent’s own interaction traces scales with task coverage and transfers to unseen websites.
NestBrowse organizes browser actions in a nested framework that separates interaction control from page exploration. It evaluates this design for deep information seeking beyond snippet retrieval and direct URL fetching.
ceLLMate constrains browser-agent authority through an extension that applies policies at the HTTP layer. It evaluates this sandbox against prompt-injection attacks in WASP, avoiding dependence on brittle low-level click and keystroke policies.
Presents a privacy evaluation framework for browser agents covering component weaknesses, website defenses, tracking, privacy-related prompts and personal-data leakage. The framework is applied to deployed browser-agent tools.
LegalWebAgent separates user-needs clarification, webpage browsing, and actions such as form completion or scheduling. A 15-task evaluation studies legal-service workflows relevant to Québec civil-law users, using HTML and screenshot observations.
Introduces FaraGen synthetic web trajectories, a compact screenshot-based action model, and WebTailBench for underrepresented browser tasks.
Reports architectural and security lessons from building a browser agent, including hybrid accessibility-tree and visual context, browser tooling and programmatic constraints. A WebGames evaluation accompanies the discussion of reliability and specialization.
Introduces WebCoach, which condenses navigation logs into persistent episodic memory and retrieves experiences by similarity and recency. Runtime hooks selectively supply advice to browser agents, evaluated on WebVoyager without retraining the underlying models.
Introduces SynthAgent, which generates tasks by exploring website elements and refines them when observations reveal conflicts. A later trajectory-refinement stage removes misaligned behavior before fine-tuning agents for the target websites.
WebServ combines copy-on-write container environments with a compact DOM-derived browser interface for training web agents. Network-aware waiting supports action execution in single-page applications, with evaluations and reinforcement-learning experiments on WebArena-Lite.
Introduces HackWorld for evaluating visual computer-use agents in a capture-the-flag collection of web applications. The benchmark examines interface navigation and multistep planning during vulnerability discovery and exploitation tasks.
Trains BrowserAgent to use Playwright-based scrolling, clicking and typing directly on webpages for information-seeking tasks. Supervised and rejection fine-tuning are paired with explicit memory for conclusions carried across steps.
WARC-Bench packages dynamic web pages as replayable archives and evaluates short navigation subtasks involving components such as date pickers and scrollable containers. It also studies supervised training followed by reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards on these browser interactions.
Introduces JEF-Hinter, which distills successful and failed trajectories into compact episodic hints and retrieves them for the current agent state. Web benchmark experiments examine guidance from decisive steps rather than full demonstration replay.
Introduces BrowserArena, a live-web platform for head-to-head agent comparisons on user-submitted tasks. Step-level human annotations support targeted analysis of navigation, pop-up handling and CAPTCHA-related failures.
WALT explores website functionality and converts demonstrated interactions into validated, reusable tools combining DOM actions, URL navigation, and agentic fallbacks. It evaluates this expanded browser action space on WebArena and VisualWebArena.
Distills generalizable reasoning strategies from both successful and failed agent trajectories into a persistent memory bank for test-time retrieval.
RAG-GUI trains a small guidance adapter to filter and summarize retrieved web tutorials while keeping the acting agent fixed. Supervised and rejection-sampling stages prepare the adapter for inference-time assistance, tested on offline web/mobile tasks and interactive Android tasks.
WAREX augments existing web-agent benchmarks with reliability challenges arising from unstable systems and changing or disruptive website behavior. Evaluation on WebArena, WebVoyager and REAL examines how these disturbances affect task completion.
Introduces a modular framework for identifying errors at intermediate stages of a web-agent pipeline. A SeeAct and Mind2Web case study examines weaknesses that are obscured by final task-success metrics.
TGPO merges semantically equivalent web states into tree-structured trajectories for offline preference optimization. A process reward model scores subgoal progress, redundant behavior, and action validity, while dynamic weighting emphasizes consequential decisions.
Introduces PrivWeb, which uses a local language model to anonymize interface information according to user preferences. Adaptive notifications and selective pauses give users control over sensitive information access during web-agent tasks.
Introduces Morae, a UI agent that detects decision points and pauses for user choices using interface code and screenshots. A study with blind and low-vision participants evaluates this mixed-initiative approach on real web tasks.
WebSight uses a vision-language model trained on web-interface examples within a modular agent with planning, action, verification, and episodic memory components. It evaluates element clicking on Showdown Clicks and full browsing tasks on WebVoyager using visual observations.
Amazon-Bench generates functionality-specific web tasks from page content and interactive controls, covering operations beyond product search. Its evaluator checks task completion and unintended changes to account state, such as address or purchase settings.
WebMall provides four simulated online shops with heterogeneous product data for comparison shopping, related-product searches, and checkout tasks. It evaluates web agents with different observation formats and memory configurations in a fixed offline environment.
Introduces CogniWeb, which switches between fast reactive processing and slower deliberative reasoning according to task complexity. WebArena experiments examine this combination of learned behaviors and online planning.
D2Snap reduces serialized DOM observations while preserving actionable elements and features that distinguish their uses. The study compares reduced DOM inputs with screenshot-based observations for a web agent on tasks sampled from Online-Mind2Web.
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