Paper reading: WebVoyager: Building an End-to-End Web Agent with Large Multimodal Models

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ZJU, Tencent, ACL2024

RQ: Previous study working on web understanding for LLM focus on managing complex HTML texts, while visual web agents have been overlooked.

Strengths

  • We introduce WebVoyager (Figure 1), a multimodal web agent designed to autonomously accomplish web tasks online from start to finish, managing the entire process end-to-end without any intermediate human intervention.

  • To accurately evaluate the capabilities of web agents in end-to-end task completion, we propose an automated evaluation protocol using GPT-4V. Specifically, we save screenshots throughout the online navigation process and then use GPT-4V to evaluate these trajectories together with the final results automatically.

  • Autogenerated dataset using self-instruct. Evaluate webvoyager on other datasets as well.

  • Use a visual mask (set-of-masking) to hint the clickable area

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  • human evaluation of 300 tasks.

Drawbacks

  • while I understand the difficulty in recruiting more participants for human evaluation, I’d like to see all models (not only gpt-4) to be evaluated by humans, as gpt-4 only show a ~60-70% success rate in human evaluation.

Dataset

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{"web_name": "Amazon", "id": "Amazon--0", "ques": "Search an Xbox Wireless controller with green color and rated above 4 stars.", "web": "https://www.amazon.com/"}
{"web_name": "Amazon", "id": "Amazon--1", "ques": "Search for women's golf polos in m size, priced between 50 to 75 dollars, and save the lowest priced among results.", "web": "https://www.amazon.com/"}
{"web_name": "Amazon", "id": "Amazon--2", "ques": "Find a gaming desktop with Windows 11 Home, and the disk size should be 1TB.", "web": "https://www.amazon.com/"}
{"web_name": "Amazon", "id": "Amazon--3", "ques": "Find climbing gears and sort the results by price high to low. Answer the first 3 results after sorting.", "web": "https://www.amazon.com/"}
{"web_name": "Amazon", "id": "Amazon--4", "ques": "Find the used Nintendo Switch Lite on Amazon then filter by 'Used - Good', tell me the cheapest one that is 'Used - Good'.", "web": "https://www.amazon.com/"}

40 amazon tasks in total, which is maybe useful?