EconSkills: Studying Skill Transfer and Retrieval for Web Agents on Live Economic Data

arXiv:2609.19523 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-17 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-10-08

Code: https://github.com/ServiceNow/BrowserGym

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Verification — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agent Skills — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Search — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• In International Conference on Machine Learning — 2× in this paper
• Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics — 1× in this paper
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web
• WebVoyager: Building an End-to-End Web Agent with Large Multimodal Models
• VideoWebArena: Evaluating Long Context Multimodal Agents with Video Understanding Web Tasks
• The BrowserGym Ecosystem for Web Agent Research
• SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks
• EconWebArena: Benchmarking Autonomous Agents on Economic Tasks in Realistic Web Environments
• WebLINX: Real-World Website Navigation with Multi-Turn Dialogue
• ContractSkill: Repairable Contract-Based Skills for Multimodal Web Agents
• SkillGen: Verified Inference-Time Agent Skill Synthesis
• WebCanvas: Benchmarking Web Agents in Online Environments
• EconLogicQA: A Question-Answering Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Economic Sequential Reasoning
• InvAgent: A Large Language Model based Multi-Agent System for Inventory Management in Supply Chains
• CRMAgent: A Multi-Agent LLM System for E-Commerce CRM Message Template Generation
• Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning
• Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
• FinRobot: An Open-Source AI Agent Platform for Financial Applications using Large Language Models
• PolySkill: Learning Generalizable Skills Through Polymorphic Abstraction
• GPT-4V(ision) is a Generalist Web Agent, if Grounded
• SkillWeaver: Web Agents can Self-Improve by Discovering and Honing Skills
• WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents

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