WebGraphEval: Multi-Turn Trajectory Evaluation for Web Agents using Graph Representation
On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Web, search, and research agents
Abstract (arXiv)
Current evaluation of web agents largely reduces to binary success metrics or conformity to a single reference trajectory, ignoring the structural diversity present in benchmark datasets. We present WebGraphEval, a framework that abstracts trajectories from multiple agents into a unified, weighted action graph. This representation is directly compatible with benchmarks such as WebArena, leveraging leaderboard runs and newly collected trajectories without modifying environments. The framework canonically encodes actions, merges recurring behaviors, and applies structural analyses including reward propagation and success-weighted edge statistics. Evaluations across thousands of trajectories from six web agents show that the graph abstraction captures cross-model regularities, highlights redundancy and inefficiency, and identifies critical decision points overlooked by outcome-based metrics. By framing web interaction as graph-structured data, WebGraphEval establishes a general methodology for multi-path, cross-agent, and efficiency-aware evaluation of web agents.
Key facts. Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Web, search, and research agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 19 of its 25 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 22 Oct 2025.
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19 of 25 references.
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- 2025Mind2Web 2: Evaluating Agentic Search with Agent-as-a-Judge26 Jun
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- 2023WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents25 Jul
- 2023Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web9 Jun
- 2022WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agents4 Jul
Other references · 13
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- 2024VideoWebArena: Evaluating Long Context Multimodal Agents with Video Understanding Web Taskscited by 43
- 2025Towards Enterprise-Ready Computer Using Generalist Agentcited by 31
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- 2026GUIDE: Interpretable GUI Agent Evaluation via Hierarchical Diagnosis6 Apr 2026
- 2026A Subgoal-driven Framework for Improving Long-Horizon LLM Agents20 Mar 2026
- 2026Do Web Agents Investigate Before They Decide?5 Feb 2026
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