WebDART: Dynamic Decomposition and Re-planning for Complex Web Tasks

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Authors: Jingbo Yang, Bairu Hou, Wei Wei, Shiyu Chang, Yujia Bao
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Abstract

Large-language-model (LLM) agents are becoming competent at straightforward web tasks, such as opening an item page or submitting a form, but still struggle with objectives that require long-horizon navigation, large-scale information extraction, and reasoning under constraints.We present WEBDART, a general framework that enables a single LLM to handle such complex chores.WEBDART (i) dynamically decomposes each objective into three focused subtasks-navigation, information extraction, and execution-so the model concentrates on one skill at a time, and (ii) continuously re-plans the decomposition as new webpages are revealed, taking advantage of newly discovered filters or shortcuts and avoiding redundant exploration.Evaluated on WebChore-Arena, WEBDART lifts end-to-end success rates by up to 13.7 percentage points over previous state-of-the-art agents, while matching their performance on the easier WebArena suite and completing tasks with up to 14.7 fewer navigation steps.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services Advanced Database Systems and Queries Web Data Mining and Analysis

Publication details

Journal / source
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages
11696–11715
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN