WebSailor: Navigating Super-human Reasoning for Web Agent

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02592v1
• Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:59:07 GMT
• Title: WebSailor: Navigating Super-human Reasoning for Web Agent
• Authors: Kuan Li, Zhongwang Zhang, Huifeng Yin, Liwen Zhang, Litu Ou, Jialong Wu, Wenbiao Yin, Baixuan Li, Zhengwei Tao, Xinyu Wang, Weizhou Shen, Junkai Zhang, Dingchu Zhang, Xixi Wu, Yong Jiang, Ming Yan, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou,
• Abstract summary: WebSailor is a complete post-training methodology designed to instill this crucial capability.<n>Our approach involves generating novel, high-uncertainty tasks through structured sampling and information obfuscation.<n>WebSailor significantly outperforms all opensource agents in complex information-seeking tasks.
• Score: 72.5231321118689
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: 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 opensource agents in complex information-seeking tasks, matching proprietary agents' performance and closing the capability gap.

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