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8 papers

cs.AI2026

CUBE: A Standard for Unifying Agent Benchmarks

Alexandre Lacoste, Nicolas Gontier, Oleh Shliazhko +23

The proliferation of agent benchmarks has created critical fragmentation that threatens research productivity. Each new benchmark requires substantial custom integration, creating…

cs.AI2026

JEF-Hinter: Leveraging Offline Knowledge for Improving Web Agents Adaptation

Hadi Nekoei, Aman Jaiswal, Patrice Bechard +7

Large language model (LLM) agents perform well in sequential decision-making tasks, but improving them on unfamiliar domains often requires costly online interactions or fine-tunin…

cs.LG2026

Privileged Information Distillation for Language Models

Emiliano Penaloza, Dheeraj Vattikonda, Nicolas Gontier +3

Training-time privileged information (PI) can enable language models to succeed on tasks they would otherwise fail, making it a powerful tool for reinforcement learning in hard, lo…

cs.AI2026

How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis

Dheeraj Vattikonda, Santhoshi Ravichandran, Emiliano Penaloza +13

LLM-based web agents have recently made significant progress, but much of it has occurred in closed-source systems, widening the gap with open-source alternatives. Progress has bee…

cs.CL2025

FocusAgent: Simple Yet Effective Ways of Trimming the Large Context of Web Agents

Imene Kerboua, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Megh Thakkar +7

Web agents powered by large language models (LLMs) must process lengthy web page observations to complete user goals; these pages often exceed tens of thousands of tokens. This sat…

cs.CL2025

LineRetriever: Planning-Aware Observation Reduction for Web Agents

Imene Kerboua, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Megh Thakkar +6

While large language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in web navigation tasks, the extensive context of web pages, often represented as DOM or Accessibility Tree (A…