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Web Agents

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Definition

Web agents are AI agents whose primary action space is the web: browsing pages, filling forms, clicking through flows, scraping results. They sit at the intersection of capability and risk because the web is huge, untrusted, and full of prompt-injection-shaped objects.

Episodes covering this

  1. 165
    A Free-Lunch Tweak That Lets a Tiny Agent Beat Frontier Giants
    Group-Graph Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Reinforcement Learning
    Wang, Song, Zhang et al. · Peking University·22 min·Jun 23, 2026
  2. 111
    How a 4B Web Agent Beat Models 60x Its Size on 500 Demonstrations
    OpenWebRL: Demystifying Online Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning for Visual Web Agents
    Yang, Wu, Chen et al. · UIUC·24 min·Jun 03, 2026
  3. 092
    When Search Agents Don't Really Search: The Memory Shortcut Hiding in Browsing Benchmarks
    LiveBrowseComp: Are Search Agents Searching, or Just Verifying What They Already Know?
    Fan, Wang, Chu et al. · Harbin Institute of Technology·27 min·May 28, 2026
  4. 083
    Training the Translator: How a Small Communication Model Lets Agent Teams Outperform Themselves
    AgentFugue: Agent Scaling for Long-Horizon Tasks through Collective Reasoning
    Hu, Qian, Wang et al. · GSAI·24 min·May 26, 2026
  5. 063
    Why Web Agents Are Slow: A Compiler-Style Fix for Computer-Use Latency
    Agent JIT Compilation for Latency-Optimizing Web Agent Planning and Scheduling
    Winston, Wang, Mirhoseini et al. · Stanford University·26 min·May 21, 2026
  6. 051
    Why Parallel Sampling Plateaus, And What Evidence Graphs Do Instead
    Argus: Evidence Assembly for Scalable Deep Research Agents
    Zhang, Su, Chen et al. · MiroMind AI·22 min·May 18, 2026
  7. 008
    Why Long-Horizon AI Agents Get Stuck, and a Milestone-Based Fix That Helps
    A Subgoal-driven Framework for Improving Long-Horizon LLM Agents
    Wang, Gooding, Hartmann et al. · Google DeepMind·24 min·May 02, 2026

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