Auditing Web Agent Evaluation on WebArena-Lite: Human Review of Outcomes and Trajectories

arXiv:2610.01491 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-01

Terminology

• Verification — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Failure Modes — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agent Memory — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Memory and Analysis Support Mechanism — 1× in this paper
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• WorkArena: How Capable Are Web Agents at Solving Common Knowledge Work Tasks?
• The BrowserGym Ecosystem for Web Agent Research
• Scaling Web Agent Training through Automatic Data Generation and Fine-grained Evaluation
• WebLINX: Real-World Website Navigation with Multi-Turn Dialogue
• AgentRewardBench: Evaluating Automatic Evaluations of Web Agent Trajectories
• WebGraphEval: Multi-Turn Trajectory Evaluation for Web Agents using Graph Representation
• An Illusion of Progress? Assessing the Current State of Web Agents

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