arXiv:2410.19609cs.CLcs.AI2024-10ACL被引 47

开源框架让网页智能体通过真实探索自我优化

OpenWebVoyager: Building Multimodal Web Agents via Iterative Real-World Exploration, Feedback and Optimization

  • 用模仿学习训练基础模型,再通过真实网络探索收集反馈
  • 多轮迭代后性能显著提升,跨测试集表现优异
  • 适合研究自主智能体与多模态交互的开发者

大语言和多模态模型的快速发展激发了利用GPT-4o等私有模型构建可处理真实场景(如网页导航)的自主智能体的兴趣。尽管近期开源工作尝试让智能体具备环境探索与持续改进能力,但这些工作通常在合成环境中构建仅处理文本的智能体,且奖励信号明确。此类智能体难以泛化到需要多模态感知且缺乏真值信号的真实场景。本文提出一个开源框架,支持多模态网页智能体的自主真实世界探索与自我优化。首先通过模仿学习训练基础模型获得基本能力;随后让智能体在开放网络中探索并收集轨迹反馈;再由另一个通用模型评估优质轨迹,智能体据此优化策略。该探索-反馈-优化循环可多次迭代。实验表明,智能体在每轮迭代后均实现性能提升,在多个测试集上表现强劲。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The rapid development of large language and multimodal models has sparked significant interest in using proprietary models, such as GPT-4o, to develop autonomous agents capable of handling real-world scenarios like web navigation. Although recent open-source efforts have tried to equip agents with the ability to explore environments and continuously improve over time, they are building text-only agents in synthetic environments where the reward signals are clearly defined. Such agents struggle to generalize to realistic settings that require multimodal perception abilities and lack ground-truth signals. In this paper, we introduce an open-source framework designed to facilitate the development of multimodal web agent that can autonomously conduct real-world exploration and improve itself. We first train the base model with imitation learning to gain the basic abilities. We then let the agent explore the open web and collect feedback on its trajectories. After that, it further improves its policy by learning from well-performing trajectories judged by another general-purpose model. This exploration-feedback-optimization cycle can continue for several iterations. Experimental results show that our web agent successfully improves itself after each iteration, demonstrating strong performance across multiple test sets.

多模态智能体网页导航自进化

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