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WebWorld: A Large-Scale World Model for Web Agent Training

arXiv 2602.14721 ↗First posted 16 Feb 2026cs.AIcited by 23

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Abstract (arXiv)

Web agents require massive trajectories to generalize, yet real-world training is constrained by network latency, rate limits, and safety risks. We introduce WebWorld series, the first open-web simulator trained at scale. While existing simulators are restricted to closed environments with thousands of trajectories, WebWorld leverages a scalable data pipeline to train on 1M+ open-web interactions, supporting reasoning, multi-format data, and long-horizon simulations of 30+ steps. For intrinsic evaluation, we introduce WebWorld-Bench with dual metrics spanning nine dimensions, where WebWorld achieves simulation performance comparable to Gemini-3-Pro. For extrinsic evaluation, Qwen3-14B trained on WebWorld-synthesized trajectories improves by +9.2% on WebArena, reaching performance comparable to GPT-4o. WebWorld enables effective inference-time search, outperforming GPT-5 as a world model. Beyond web simulation, WebWorld exhibits cross-domain generalization to code, GUI, and game environments, providing a replicable recipe for world model construction.

Key facts. Cited by 23 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in World models for language agents, one of 11 directions in World models. Builds on 20 of its 24 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 16 Feb 2026.

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  1. 2026Current Agents Fail to Leverage World Model as Tool for Foresight7 Jan
  2. 2025From Word to World: Can Large Language Models be Implicit Text-based World Models?21 Dec
  3. 2025Why Do LLM Agents Fail in Exploring New Environments? A World-Modeling Perspective16 Oct
  4. 2025WebSynthesis: World-Model-Guided MCTS for Efficient WebUI-Trajectory Synthesis6 Jul
  5. 2025WebEvolver: Enhancing Web Agent Self-Improvement with Coevolving World Model23 Apr
  6. 2024Is Your LLM Secretly a World Model of the Internet? Model-Based Planning for Web Agents10 Nov
  7. 2024Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation17 Oct

Other references · 13

  1. 2025Qwen3 Technical Reportcited by 8,195
  2. 2023WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agentscited by 1,908
  3. 2024LlamaFactory: Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ Language Modelscited by 1,442
  4. 2023Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Webcited by 1,210
  5. 2024Qwen2.5-Coder Technical Reportcited by 1,151
  6. 2023Enhancing Chat Language Models by Scaling High-quality Instructional Conversationscited by 825
  7. 2024AgentTrek: Agent Trajectory Synthesis via Guiding Replay with Web Tutorialscited by 123
  8. 2025Simulating Environments with Reasoning Models for Agent Trainingcited by 52
  9. 2026EnvScaler: Scaling Tool-Interactive Environments for LLM Agent via Programmatic Synthesiscited by 46
  10. 2025ViMo: A Generative Visual GUI World Model for App Agentscited by 33
  11. 2025LLMs as Scalable, General-Purpose Simulators For Evolving Digital Agent Trainingcited by 17
  12. 2025Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: Selectively Quitting Improves LLM Agent Safetycited by 12
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  1. 2024CCI3.0-HQ: a large-scale Chinese dataset of high quality designed for pre-training large language modelscited by 10

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  1. 2026Agent-World: Scaling Real-World Environment Synthesis for Evolving General Agent Intelligencecited by 35
  2. 2026Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agentscited by 22
  3. 2026Policy and World Modeling Co-Training for Language Agentscited by 11
  4. 2026Agentic World Modeling: Foundations, Capabilities, Laws, and Beyondcited by 10
  5. 2026How Mobile World Model Guides GUI Agents?cited by 8
  6. 2026Agentic Environment Engineering for Large Language Models: A Survey of Environment Modeling, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Applicationcited by 8
  7. 2026Qwen-UI-Agent Technical Report: Toward Next-Generation Real-World Centric Foundation GUI Agentscited by 8
  8. 2026OccuBench: Evaluating AI Agents on Real-World Professional Tasks via Language Environment Simulationcited by 6
  9. 2026GUI Agents with Reinforcement Learning: Toward Digital Inhabitantscited by 3
  10. 2026Bridging the Agent-World Gap: Text World Models for LLM-based Agentscited by 3
  11. 2026SeerGuard: A Safety Framework for Mobile GUI Agents via World Model Predictioncited by 3
  12. 2026Security of World-Model-Based Embodied AI: A Lifecycle of Threats, Defenses, and Evaluationcited by 2
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  1. 2026AppDeltaWorld: Transition-Grounded Delta Code World Model for Mobile GUI Agentscited by 2
  2. 2026EnvACE: Internalizing Environment Dynamics via World Rehearsal for Agentic Reinforcement Learningcited by 2
  3. 2026AlphaEval: Evaluating Agents in Productioncited by 1
  4. 2026GUI-CC: Benchmarking Contextual Consistency of GUI World Models as Agent Environmentscited by 1
  5. 2026Discriminative World Models for Web Agentscited by 1
  6. 2026Quo Vadis, World Modeling?cited by 0
  7. 2026BrowserForge: Scaling Web Episode via Parallel Browser Sandboxescited by 0
  8. 2026Agent-Editing World Model: Rethinking World Modeling for LLM Agentscited by 0
  9. 2026From Trajectories to Grounded Preferences: Process Preference Synthesis via Interaction Element Graphs for Web PRMscited by 0
  10. 2026CUA-Sandbox: Efficient Environments for Computer-Use Agent Reinforcement Learningcited by 0
  11. 2026AutoGUIWorld: Image Generators as Visual World Models for GUI Agentcited by 0

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