{
  "id": "2410.13232",
  "title": "Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation",
  "authors": "Hyungjoo Chae, Namyoung Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Minju Gwak, Gwanwoo Song, Jihoon Kim, Sunghwan Kim, Dongha Lee, Jinyoung Yeo",
  "first_public": "2024-10-17",
  "first_public_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13232",
  "venue": "ICLR 2025",
  "arxiv": "2410.13232",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13232",
  "lens": [
    "gui-planning"
  ],
  "related_terms": [
    "web world model",
    "counterfactual planning",
    "transition prediction",
    "WMA"
  ],
  "summary": "Predicts the effects of candidate web actions as natural-language descriptions of important changes, then uses those predictions for action selection.",
  "contribution": "Introduces a transition-focused abstraction that reduces the burden of predicting long, repetitive web observations and supports world-model-augmented planning.",
  "limitations": "The paper evaluates web navigation using textual descriptions of state changes.",
  "model_output": "Natural-language descriptions of changes in the next web observation.",
  "action_interface": "Candidate web-navigation actions.",
  "state_memory": "The planner uses web context and predicted descriptions of state changes.",
  "relationship": "Connects environment prediction to agent decisions in web navigation.",
  "relationship_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13232",
  "author_names": [
    "Hyungjoo Chae",
    "Namyoung Kim",
    "Kai Tzu-iunn Ong",
    "Minju Gwak",
    "Gwanwoo Song",
    "Jihoon Kim",
    "Sunghwan Kim",
    "Dongha Lee",
    "Jinyoung Yeo"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2024-10-17",
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  "markdown_url": "https://neural-os.com/reading-list/papers/2410.13232/index.md",
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