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Training multimodal agents via reinforcement learning for knowledge-intensive visual reasoning is fundamentally hindered by the extreme sparsity of outcome-based supervision and the unpredictability of live web environments. To resolve…

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We present WebGym, the largest-to-date open-source environment for training realistic visual web agents. Real websites are non-stationary and diverse, making artificial or small-scale task sets insufficient for robust policy learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hao Bai , Alexey Taymanov , Tong Zhang , Aviral Kumar , Spencer Whitehead

The current state of modern web interfaces, especially in regards to accessibility focused usage is extremely lacking. Traditional methods for web interaction, such as scripting languages and screen readers, often lack the flexibility to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Trisanth Srinivasan , Santosh Patapati

Large Language Model (LLM) web agents often struggle with long-horizon web navigation and web task completion in new websites, producing inefficient action sequences unless fine-tuned on environment-specific data. We show that…

We introduce WebSight, a vision-based autonomous web agent, designed to interact with web environments purely through visual perception, eliminating dependence on HTML or DOM-based inputs. Central to our approach we introduce our new model,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tanvir Bhathal , Asanshay Gupta

Web agents have emerged as a promising direction to automate Web task completion based on user instructions, significantly enhancing user experience. Recently, Web agents have evolved from traditional agents to Large Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hongru Cai , Yongqi Li , Wenjie Wang , Fengbin Zhu , Xiaoyu Shen , Wenjie Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Vision-Language Models have made significant progress on many perception-focused tasks. However, their progress on reasoning-focused tasks remains limited due to the lack of high-quality and diverse training data. In this work, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yiming Jia , Jiachen Li , Xiang Yue , Bo Li , Ping Nie , Kai Zou , Wenhu Chen

Text-based web agents offer computational efficiency for autonomous web navigation, yet developing robust agents remains challenging due to the noisy and heterogeneous nature of real-world HTML. Standard Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chuang Peng , Wei Zhang , Renshuai Tao , Xinhao Zhang , Jian Yang

We present Magma, a foundation model that serves multimodal AI agentic tasks in both the digital and physical worlds. Magma is a significant extension of vision-language (VL) models in that it not only retains the VL understanding ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jianwei Yang , Reuben Tan , Qianhui Wu , Ruijie Zheng , Baolin Peng , Yongyuan Liang , Yu Gu , Mu Cai , Seonghyeon Ye , Joel Jang , Yuquan Deng , Lars Liden , Jianfeng Gao

The utilisation of foundation models as smartphone assistants, termed app agents, is a critical research challenge. These agents aim to execute human instructions on smartphones by interpreting textual instructions and performing actions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Georgios Papoudakis , Thomas Coste , Zhihao Wu , Jianye Hao , Jun Wang , Kun Shao

Web agents such as Deep Research have demonstrated superhuman cognitive abilities, capable of solving highly challenging information-seeking problems. However, most research remains primarily text-centric, overlooking visual information in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xinyu Geng , Peng Xia , Zhen Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Qiuchen Wang , Ruixue Ding , Chenxi Wang , Jialong Wu , Yida Zhao , Kuan Li , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

Mobile agents are essential for automating tasks in complex and dynamic mobile environments. As foundation models evolve, the demands for agents that can adapt in real-time and process multimodal data have grown. This survey provides a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Biao Wu , Yanda Li , Zhiwei Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Meng Fang , Ling Chen

Current paradigms for training GUI agents are fundamentally limited by a reliance on either unsafe, non-reproducible live web interactions or costly, scarce human-crafted data and environments. We argue this focus on data volume overlooks a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Sicheng Fan , Qingyun Shi , Shengze Xu , Shengbo Cai , Tieyong Zeng , Li Ling , Yanyi Shang , Dehan Kong

Multimodal large language models are typically trained in two stages: first pre-training on image-text pairs, and then fine-tuning using supervised vision-language instruction data. Recent studies have shown that large language models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lai Wei , Xiaozhe Li , Zihao Jiang , Weiran Huang , Lichao Sun

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to autonomously navigate complex environments via visual images and natural language instructions--remains highly challenging. Recent research on enhancing language-guided navigation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Changxin Huang , Lv Tang , Zhaohuan Zhan , Lisha Yu , Runhao Zeng , Zun Liu , Zhengjie Wang , Jianqiang Li

We propose the problem of conversational web navigation, where a digital agent controls a web browser and follows user instructions to solve real-world tasks in a multi-turn dialogue fashion. To support this problem, we introduce WEBLINX -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xing Han Lù , Zdeněk Kasner , Siva Reddy

Object-goal navigation is a crucial engineering task for the community of embodied navigation; it involves navigating to an instance of a specified object category within unseen environments. Although extensive investigations have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Leyuan Sun , Asako Kanezaki , Guillaume Caron , Yusuke Yoshiyasu

Autonomous agents capable of planning, reasoning, and executing actions on the web offer a promising avenue for automating computer tasks. However, the majority of existing benchmarks primarily focus on text-based agents, neglecting many…

Vision guided navigation requires processing complex visual information to inform task-orientated decisions. Applications include autonomous robots, self-driving cars, and assistive vision for humans. A key element is the extraction and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jaime Ruiz-Serra , Jack White , Stephen Petrie , Tatiana Kameneva , Chris McCarthy

With the increasing attention to pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), \eg, CLIP, substantial efforts have been devoted to many downstream tasks, especially in test-time adaptation (TTA). However, previous works focus on learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xingyu Zhu , Shuo Wang , Beier Zhu , Miaoge Li , Yunfan Li , Junfeng Fang , Zhicai Wang , Dongsheng Wang , Hanwang Zhang