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Weblica: Scalable and Reproducible Training Environments for Visual Web Agents

arXiv 2605.06761 ↗First posted 7 May 2026cs.AI cs.CV cs.LGcited by 4

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

Abstract (arXiv)

The web is complex, open-ended, and constantly changing, making it challenging to scale training data for visual web agents. Existing data collection attempts remain limited to offline trajectories for supervised fine-tuning or a handful of simulated environments for RL training, thus failing to capture web diversity. We propose Weblica (Web Replica), a framework for constructing reproducible and scalable web environments. Our framework leverages 1) HTTP-level caching to capture and replay stable visual states while preserving interactive behavior and 2) LLM-based environment synthesis grounded in real-world websites and core web navigation skills. Using this framework, we scale RL training to thousands of diverse environments and tasks. Our best model, Weblica-8B, outperforms open-weight baselines of similar size across multiple web navigation benchmarks while using fewer inference steps, scales favorably with additional test-time compute, and is competitive with API models.

Key facts. Cited by 4 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 36 of its 50 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 May 2026.

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36 of 50 references.

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  2. 2026WebGym: Scaling Training Environments for Visual Web Agents with Realistic Tasks5 Jan
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  11. 2023WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents25 Jul
  12. 2023Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web9 Jun
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  1. 2022WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agents4 Jul

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