WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Scalable Reinforcement Learning

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Main Authors: Li, Kuan, Zhang, Zhongwang, Yin, Huifeng, Ye, Rui, Zhao, Yida, Zhang, Liwen, Ou, Litu, Zhang, Dingchu, Wu, Xixi, Wu, Jialong, Wang, Xinyu, Qiao, Zile, Zhang, Zhen, Jiang, Yong, Xie, Pengjun, Huang, Fei, Zhou, Jingren
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author Li, Kuan
Zhang, Zhongwang
Yin, Huifeng
Ye, Rui
Zhao, Yida
Zhang, Liwen
Ou, Litu
Zhang, Dingchu
Wu, Xixi
Wu, Jialong
Wang, Xinyu
Qiao, Zile
Zhang, Zhen
Jiang, Yong
Xie, Pengjun
Huang, Fei
Zhou, Jingren
author_facet Li, Kuan
Zhang, Zhongwang
Yin, Huifeng
Ye, Rui
Zhao, Yida
Zhang, Liwen
Ou, Litu
Zhang, Dingchu
Wu, Xixi
Wu, Jialong
Wang, Xinyu
Qiao, Zile
Zhang, Zhen
Jiang, Yong
Xie, Pengjun
Huang, Fei
Zhou, Jingren
contents Transcending human cognitive limitations represents a critical frontier in LLM training. Proprietary agentic systems like DeepResearch have demonstrated superhuman capabilities on extremely complex information-seeking benchmarks such as BrowseComp, a feat previously unattainable. We posit that their success hinges on a sophisticated reasoning pattern absent in open-source models: the ability to systematically reduce extreme uncertainty when navigating vast information landscapes. Based on this insight, we introduce WebSailor, a complete post-training methodology designed to instill this crucial capability. Our approach involves generating novel, high-uncertainty tasks through structured sampling and information obfuscation, RFT cold start, and an efficient agentic RL training algorithm, Duplicating Sampling Policy Optimization (DUPO). With this integrated pipeline, WebSailor significantly outperforms all open-source agents in complex information-seeking tasks, matching proprietary agents' performance and closing the capability gap.
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spellingShingle WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Scalable Reinforcement Learning
Li, Kuan
Zhang, Zhongwang
Yin, Huifeng
Ye, Rui
Zhao, Yida
Zhang, Liwen
Ou, Litu
Zhang, Dingchu
Wu, Xixi
Wu, Jialong
Wang, Xinyu
Qiao, Zile
Zhang, Zhen
Jiang, Yong
Xie, Pengjun
Huang, Fei
Zhou, Jingren
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Transcending human cognitive limitations represents a critical frontier in LLM training. Proprietary agentic systems like DeepResearch have demonstrated superhuman capabilities on extremely complex information-seeking benchmarks such as BrowseComp, a feat previously unattainable. We posit that their success hinges on a sophisticated reasoning pattern absent in open-source models: the ability to systematically reduce extreme uncertainty when navigating vast information landscapes. Based on this insight, we introduce WebSailor, a complete post-training methodology designed to instill this crucial capability. Our approach involves generating novel, high-uncertainty tasks through structured sampling and information obfuscation, RFT cold start, and an efficient agentic RL training algorithm, Duplicating Sampling Policy Optimization (DUPO). With this integrated pipeline, WebSailor significantly outperforms all open-source agents in complex information-seeking tasks, matching proprietary agents' performance and closing the capability gap.
title WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Scalable Reinforcement Learning
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13305