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Scaling Web Agent Training through Automatic Data Generation and Fine-grained Evaluation

Artificial Intelligence 2026-02-16 v1

Abstract

We present a scalable pipeline for automatically generating high-quality training data for web agents. In particular, a major challenge in identifying high-quality training instances is trajectory evaluation - quantifying how much progress was made towards task completion. We introduce a novel constraint-based evaluation framework that provides fine-grained assessment of progress towards task completion. This enables us to leverage partially successful trajectories, which significantly expands the amount of usable training data. We evaluate our method on a new benchmark we propose called BookingArena, which consists of complex booking tasks across 20 popular websites, and demonstrate that our distilled student model outperforms open-source approaches and matches or exceeds commercial systems, while being a significantly smaller model. Our work addresses the challenge of efficiently creating diverse, realistic web interaction datasets and provides a systematic evaluation methodology for complex structured web tasks.

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@article{arxiv.2602.12544,
  title  = {Scaling Web Agent Training through Automatic Data Generation and Fine-grained Evaluation},
  author = {Lajanugen Logeswaran and Jaekyeom Kim and Sungryull Sohn and Creighton Glasscock and Honglak Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12544},
  year   = {2026}
}

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