Yuanlei Wang
Author directory2026
WebSync: A Self-Evolving Web Agent Framework for Co-Evolving Strategic Advice and Executable Skills
Yuanlei Wang | Haohao Luo | Zihao Yi | Ying Shen | Liang Lin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yuanlei Wang | Haohao Luo | Zihao Yi | Ying Shen | Liang Lin
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
With the advent of large language models, autonomous web agents have achieved more sophisticated capabilities in planning, reflecting, and tool using, enabling automating navigation in complex and dynamic web environments. Despite this, existing efforts to instill experiential learning through memory-centric retrieval or skill-centric synthesis are respectively limited by computational inefficiency and a lack of robustness, preventing web agents from truly self-evolving. To tackle this problem, we introduce a novel web agent framework called WebSync, which is designed to unify strategic advice and skill synthesis through a structured skill recipe to compile experience into executable skills more efficiently and robustly. Furthermore, it enables continuous self-evolving by using runtime feedback to trigger iterative recipe and skill refinement, thus achieving a robust transition from trial-and-error reasoning to proven execution. Experimental results on WebArena and WebVoyager benchmarks demonstrate the superiority and versatility of WebSync across multiple backbone large language models.
2025
INREACT: An Inspire-Then-Reinforce Training Framework For Multimodal GUI Agent
Yuanlei Wang | Liuzhou Zhang | Haohao Luo | Ying Shen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Yuanlei Wang | Liuzhou Zhang | Haohao Luo | Ying Shen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Graphical User Interface (GUI) interaction, which aims to develop an intelligent GUI agent that executes user instructions to perform tasks such as installing applications by controlling digital devices, has gained significant attention due to its practical value. Although current advanced multimodal large language models (LLMs) provide GUI agents with robust perception and reasoning capabilities, they often struggle with the precise localization of small elements. To tackle this problem, we propose InReAct, a multimodal GUI agent framework that unifies observing, thinking, and acting for precise and interpretable decision-making. It is trained via a two-stage process: curriculum learning to progressively build perception, grounding, and reasoning abilities, followed by reinforcement learning to refine pixel-level grounding with an outcome-based reward. We introduce a rule-based reward function that jointly optimizes action-type selection and pixel-level localization accuracy. Experimental results on multiple datasets demonstrate the superiority of InReAct in both grounding and navigation tasks.