Generating user guides can improve web agents’ action selection

On a deterministic offline benchmark, jointly training models to produce instructions and grounded actions modestly improved element selection, especially at larger scale.

Research Lab
Chengguang Gan · Yunhao Liang · QingHao Zhang · Shiwen Ni

Independent Researcher · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Pusan National University · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology

Research Digest··2 min read
Gan et al.

The authors assembled 541 tasks containing 5,293 steps from successful WebArena trajectories.

Why this paper

From University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and 3 others

In one line

Jointly decoding a guide and action improves web agent element selection, and guides causally drive actions.

What we could check

  • ·No code link found
  • ·No weights link found
  • ·No dataset link found
  • ·No compute details found
  • ✓Limitations stated by the authors
  • ✓Reports numbers on named benchmarks

Observed from the paper text and links we have. Absence here means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

§
newspaper

Research Digest

Articles published under the Zotpaper byline are synthesized from multiple source publications by our AI editor and reviewed by our editorial process. Each story combines reporting from credible outlets to give readers a balanced, comprehensive view.