WebAnything: From the Wild Web to Scalable Agent Environments
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabWebAnything is a framework that automatically reconstructs reusable, source-grounded web environments from real URLs for training and evaluating web agents, without per-site manual implementation after initial setup. An Explorer-Builder collects browser-observable structures, resources, and interaction outcomes, while an independent verifier checks frozen candidates and guides repair or recapture. The authors report 244 website artifacts across 14 application domains supporting 12,984 accepted tasks. Compared with human-assisted WebHarbor, it won 12 blind-audit comparisons, tied two, and lost none. Fine-tuning Qwen3.5-9B on 5,856 trajectories improved several benchmark success metrics.
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WebAnything is a framework that automatically reconstructs reusable, source-grounded web environments from real URLs for training and evaluating web agents, without per-site manual implementation after initial setup. An Explorer-Builder collects browser-observable structures, resources, and interaction outcomes, while an independent verifier checks frozen candidates and guides repair or recapture. The authors report 244 website artifacts across 14 application domains supporting 12,984 accepted tasks. Compared with human-assisted WebHarbor, it won 12 blind-audit comparisons, tied two, and lost none. Fine-tuning Qwen3.5-9B on 5,856 trajectories improved several benchmark success metrics.
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- WebAnything reconstructs reusable web environments from real URLs without per-site manual implementation after initial setup and authorization.
- The authors built 244 website artifacts across 14 application domains and 53 categories, supporting 12,984 executed and accepted tasks.
- In a blind audit against human-assisted WebHarbor, it had 12 wins, two ties, and no losses.
- Fine-tuning Qwen3.5-9B on 5,856 interaction trajectories improved WebArena-Verified Overall success by 13.33 percentage points.
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Reproducible, executable website environments are a bottleneck for training and evaluating web agents. Automating their construction from real URLs could make large-scale agent benchmarking cheaper and more faithful to actual sites.
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