LASER: LLM Agent with State-Space Exploration for Web Navigation
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| author | Ma, Kaixin Zhang, Hongming Wang, Hongwei Pan, Xiaoman Yu, Wenhao Yu, Dong |
| author_facet | Ma, Kaixin Zhang, Hongming Wang, Hongwei Pan, Xiaoman Yu, Wenhao Yu, Dong |
| contents | Large language models (LLMs) have been successfully adapted for interactive decision-making tasks like web navigation. While achieving decent performance, previous methods implicitly assume a forward-only execution mode for the model, where they only provide oracle trajectories as in-context examples to guide the model on how to reason in the environment. Consequently, the model could not handle more challenging scenarios not covered in the in-context examples, e.g., mistakes, leading to sub-optimal performance. To address this issue, we propose to model the interactive task as state space exploration, where the LLM agent transitions among a pre-defined set of states by performing actions to complete the task. This formulation enables flexible backtracking, allowing the model to recover from errors easily. We evaluate our proposed LLM Agent with State-Space ExploRation (LASER) on both the WebShop task and amazon.com. Experimental results show that LASER significantly outperforms previous methods and closes the gap with human performance on the web navigation task. |
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| spellingShingle | LASER: LLM Agent with State-Space Exploration for Web Navigation Ma, Kaixin Zhang, Hongming Wang, Hongwei Pan, Xiaoman Yu, Wenhao Yu, Dong Computation and Language Large language models (LLMs) have been successfully adapted for interactive decision-making tasks like web navigation. While achieving decent performance, previous methods implicitly assume a forward-only execution mode for the model, where they only provide oracle trajectories as in-context examples to guide the model on how to reason in the environment. Consequently, the model could not handle more challenging scenarios not covered in the in-context examples, e.g., mistakes, leading to sub-optimal performance. To address this issue, we propose to model the interactive task as state space exploration, where the LLM agent transitions among a pre-defined set of states by performing actions to complete the task. This formulation enables flexible backtracking, allowing the model to recover from errors easily. We evaluate our proposed LLM Agent with State-Space ExploRation (LASER) on both the WebShop task and amazon.com. Experimental results show that LASER significantly outperforms previous methods and closes the gap with human performance on the web navigation task. |
| title | LASER: LLM Agent with State-Space Exploration for Web Navigation |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08172 |