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VisualWebArena: evaluating multimodal agents on realistic visual web tasks

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Koh, Jing Yu, Lo, Robert, Jang, Lawrence, Duvvur, Vikram, Lim, Ming, Huang, Po-Yu, Neubig, Graham, Zhou, Shuyan +2 more·2024·Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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Jing Yu Koh, Robert Lo, Lawrence Jang, Vikram Duvvur, Ming Lim, Po-Yu Huang, Graham Neubig, Shuyan Zhou, Russ Salakhutdinov, Daniel Fried. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2024.

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  • WebArena and VisualWebArena are open-source academic implementations operating as desktop applications that launch browser instances for task execution.

    “WebArena [8] and VisualWebArena [9], open-source academic implementations operating as desktop applications, also launch browser instances for task execution.”

    From Investigating the Impact of Dark Patterns on LLM-Based Web Agents (2026) · cites this paper as [9]

    Section 3.1 describes VisualWebArena as a web-browsing environment with URLs and open tabs, and Table 1 lists actions for opening tabs and navigating to URLs. Section 3 says its websites use open-source infrastructure and are standalone self-hosted web applications. The paper does not establish that VisualWebArena is a desktop application, that it launches browser instances for task execution, or that the benchmark itself is open-source. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Existing agent logging frameworks often rely on specific agent implementations that hard-code crucial aspects of agent behavior, defining fixed prompts, predetermined methods for environmental observations, and limited action space, which constrains evaluation of diverse agent implementations.

    “Existing approaches [8], [9] often rely on specific agent implementations that hard-code crucial aspects of agent behavior.”

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  • Language model agents that interact with a real or virtual world have proliferated as the default setting for web navigation, computer control, and code generation tasks.

    “LM agents [17, 42, 47, 54] that interact with a real/virtual world have proliferated as the default setting for web navigation [24, 33, 36, 41, 45, 61, 62, 71], computer control [35, 53, 57], and code generation tasks [16, 50, 63].”
  • Computer use is another popular area of benchmark research including WebArena, Visual Web Arena, AppWorld, and OS World.

    “Computer use is another popular area of benchmark research including WebArena (Zhou et al., 2024), Visual Web Arena (Koh et al., 2024), AppWorld (Trivedi et al., 2024), and OS World (Xie et al., 2024).”
  • Benchmark suites such as DeathStarBench provide reproducible microservice workloads that can support end-to-end evaluation of diagnosis and mitigation policies under stress.

    “Benchmark suites such as DeathStarBench provide reproducible microservice workloads that can support end-to-end evaluation of diagnosis and mitigation policies under stress [166].”

    From Large language models for agentic NetOps and AIOps: Architectures, evaluation, and safety (2027) · cites this paper as [166]

    The Introduction (page unavailable) describes VisualWebArena’s reproducible environments for visually grounded web-agent tasks, not microservice workloads. Searches for DeathStarBench, microservices, and diagnosis or mitigation under stress found no passage addressing the claim in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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Authors
Koh, J. Y., Lo, R., Jang, L., Duvvur, V., Lim, M., Huang, P.-Y., Neubig, G., Zhou, S., Salakhutdinov, R., & Fried, D.
Affiliations
Carnegie Mellon University (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Published
2024
Pages
881-905
ISSN
0736-587X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4402667024
Cited by
50
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Citations by year
2026: 28 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 3
FWCI
10.32
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conference paper
Language
en
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cc-by
Locations
Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
Keywords
multimodal agents, agent evaluation, multimodal language models

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