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WebSight: A Vision-First Architecture for Robust Web Agents

arXiv 2508.16987 ↗First posted 23 Aug 2025cs.AI cs.CVcited by 8

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Web, search, and research agents

Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce WebSight, a vision-based autonomous web agent, designed to interact with web environments purely through visual perception, eliminating dependence on HTML or DOM-based inputs. Central to our approach we introduce our new model, WebSight-7B, a fine-tuned vision-language model optimized for UI element interaction, trained using LoRA on a web-focused subset of the Wave-UI-25K dataset. WebSight integrates this model into a modular multi-agent architecture, comprising planning, reasoning, vision-action, and verification agents, coordinated through an episodic memory mechanism. WebSight-7B achieves a top-1 accuracy of 58.84% on the Showdown Clicks benchmark, outperforming several larger generalist models while maintaining lower latency. The full WebSight agent achieves a 68.0% success rate on the WebVoyager benchmark, surpassing systems from labs such as OpenAI (61.0%) and HCompany (Runner H, 67.0%). Among tasks completed, WebSight answers correctly 97.14% of the time, indicating high precision. Together, WebSight and WebSight-7B establish a new standard for interpretable, robust, and efficient visual web navigation.

Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Web, search, and research agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 30 of its 65 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 23 Aug 2025.

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  1. 2024WebVoyager: Building an End-to-End Web Agent with Large Multimodal Models25 Jan
  2. 2023WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents25 Jul

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