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Weblica: Scalable and Reproducible Training Environments for Visual Web Agents

Artificial Intelligence 2026-05-11 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning

Abstract

The web is complex, open-ended, and constantly changing, making it challenging to scale training data for visual web agents. Existing data collection attempts remain limited to offline trajectories for supervised fine-tuning or a handful of simulated environments for RL training, thus failing to capture web diversity. We propose Weblica (Web Replica), a framework for constructing reproducible and scalable web environments. Our framework leverages 1) HTTP-level caching to capture and replay stable visual states while preserving interactive behavior and 2) LLM-based environment synthesis grounded in real-world websites and core web navigation skills. Using this framework, we scale RL training to thousands of diverse environments and tasks. Our best model, Weblica-8B, outperforms open-weight baselines of similar size across multiple web navigation benchmarks while using fewer inference steps, scales favorably with additional test-time compute, and is competitive with API models.

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@article{arxiv.2605.06761,
  title  = {Weblica: Scalable and Reproducible Training Environments for Visual Web Agents},
  author = {Oğuzhan Fatih Kar and Roman Bachmann and Yuanzheng Gong and Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen and Afshin Dehghan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.06761},
  year   = {2026}
}

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28 pages, 19 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T12:55:54.773Z