Multimodal Auto Validation For Self-Refinement in Web Agents

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Hauptverfasser: Azam, Ruhana, Abuelsaad, Tamer, Vempaty, Aditya, Jagmohan, Ashish
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author Azam, Ruhana
Abuelsaad, Tamer
Vempaty, Aditya
Jagmohan, Ashish
author_facet Azam, Ruhana
Abuelsaad, Tamer
Vempaty, Aditya
Jagmohan, Ashish
contents As our world digitizes, web agents that can automate complex and monotonous tasks are becoming essential in streamlining workflows. This paper introduces an approach to improving web agent performance through multi-modal validation and self-refinement. We present a comprehensive study of different modalities (text, vision) and the effect of hierarchy for the automatic validation of web agents, building upon the state-of-the-art Agent-E web automation framework. We also introduce a self-refinement mechanism for web automation, using the developed auto-validator, that enables web agents to detect and self-correct workflow failures. Our results show significant gains on Agent-E's (a SOTA web agent) prior state-of-art performance, boosting task-completion rates from 76.2\% to 81.24\% on the subset of the WebVoyager benchmark. The approach presented in this paper paves the way for more reliable digital assistants in complex, real-world scenarios.
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spellingShingle Multimodal Auto Validation For Self-Refinement in Web Agents
Azam, Ruhana
Abuelsaad, Tamer
Vempaty, Aditya
Jagmohan, Ashish
Artificial Intelligence
Software Engineering
As our world digitizes, web agents that can automate complex and monotonous tasks are becoming essential in streamlining workflows. This paper introduces an approach to improving web agent performance through multi-modal validation and self-refinement. We present a comprehensive study of different modalities (text, vision) and the effect of hierarchy for the automatic validation of web agents, building upon the state-of-the-art Agent-E web automation framework. We also introduce a self-refinement mechanism for web automation, using the developed auto-validator, that enables web agents to detect and self-correct workflow failures. Our results show significant gains on Agent-E's (a SOTA web agent) prior state-of-art performance, boosting task-completion rates from 76.2\% to 81.24\% on the subset of the WebVoyager benchmark. The approach presented in this paper paves the way for more reliable digital assistants in complex, real-world scenarios.
title Multimodal Auto Validation For Self-Refinement in Web Agents
topic Artificial Intelligence
Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00689