Practicing reusable web skills then composing them improves compact agents

Skill-centric training with separate planning and execution boosts web agent performance on unseen and external benchmarks

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Minh Pham-Dinh · Md Farhan Ishmam · Hernan Yupanqui · Reaz Hassan Joarder · Kenneth Marino

University of Utah · Islamic University of Technology

Research Digest··3 min read
Illustration: Practicing reusable web skills then composing them improves compact agents
The authors introduce MiniWeb, a benchmark of 65 websites with 37 interaction primitives, and evaluate ten open-weight agents, finding drag and gesture to be the weakest skill family.

The authors built MiniWeb, a synthetic web environment of 65 interconnected websites across 15 domains, with 369 human-annotated tasks built from 37 interaction primitives grouped into 7 skill families.

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