From Context to Action: Analysis of the Impact of State Representation and Context on the Generalization of Multi-Turn Web Navigation Agents

Nalin Tiwary , Vardhan Dongre , Sanil Arun Chawla , Ashwin Lamani , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

🏛 Institutions: UIUC
📅 Date: October 31, 2024
📑 Publisher: Open-World Agents @ NeurIPS 2024 (Poster)
💻 Env: Web
🔑 Keywords: context management state representation interaction history web page representation WebLINX

TLDR

This paper studies how interaction history and web-page representation affect multi-turn web-agent generalization on WebLINX. It shows that using longer but not excessive history and less aggressive truncation of page context improves out-of-distribution performance on unseen websites, categories, and geographic locations.

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