WebWorld: A Large-Scale World Model for Web Agent Training

Zikai Xiao, Jianhong Tu, Chuhang Zou, Yuxin Zuo, Zhi Li +5 more
2/16/2026
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Abstract

Web agents require massive trajectories to generalize, yet real-world training is constrained by network latency, rate limits, and safety risks. We introduce \textbf{WebWorld} series, the first open-web simulator trained at scale. While existing simulators are restricted to closed environments with thousands of trajectories, WebWorld leverages a scalable data pipeline to train on 1M+ open-web interactions, supporting reasoning, multi-format data, and long-horizon simulations of 30+ steps. For intrinsic evaluation, we introduce WebWorld-Bench with dual metrics spanning nine dimensions, where WebWorld achieves simulation performance comparable to Gemini-3-Pro. For extrinsic evaluation, Qwen3-14B trained on WebWorld-synthesized trajectories improves by +9.2\% on WebArena, reaching performance comparable to GPT-4o. WebWorld enables effective inference-time search, outperforming GPT-5 as a world model. Beyond web simulation, WebWorld exhibits cross-domain generalization to code, GUI, and game environments, providing a replicable recipe for world model construction.

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@article{xiao2026webworld,
  title  = {WebWorld: A Large-Scale World Model for Web Agent Training},
  author = {Zikai Xiao and Jianhong Tu and Chuhang Zou and Yuxin Zuo and Zhi Li and Peng Wang and Bowen Yu and Fei Huang and Junyang Lin and Zuozhu Liu},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.14721},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14721v1}
}

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