WebArena

January 23, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

WebArena is a realistic web environment for building autonomous agents. It creates websites from popular categories with functionality and data mimicking their real-world equivalents.

Key Features

  • Standalone, self-hostable web environment for building autonomous agents
  • Creates websites from four popular categories with realistic functionality
  • Embeds tools and knowledge resources as independent websites
  • Provides annotated programs for programmatically validating task correctness
  • Supports task setup and execution-based evaluation

Performance Metrics

Latest leaderboard results as of April 2024:

RankModelSuccess RateTypeNotes
1Jace.AI57.1%ClosedAction description + Screenshots
2ScribeAgent + GPT-4o53.0%ClosedFinetuned with proprietary data
3ORCHESTRA52.1%ClosedReported by UNC x Ventus
4Learn-by-Interact48.0%OpenBest open-source solution
5AgentOccam-Judge45.7%Open

Evaluation Methods

  • Information seeking tasks with answer comparison
  • Programmatic checking of intermediate states
  • GUI-only interface testing
  • Cross-app workflow validation

Task Categories

WebArena includes tasks across various domains including:

  • Web navigation
  • Online shopping
  • Table booking
  • Information seeking
  • Multi-step workflows

Technical Details

  • Provides a controlled web environment
  • Supports multimodal agent evaluation
  • Enables cross-app interactions
  • Allows starting tasks from intermediate states
  • Includes execution-based evaluation functions

References