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WebSailor: Navigating Super-human Reasoning for Web Agent

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Transcending human cognitive limitations represents a critical frontier in LLM training. Proprietary agentic systems like DeepResearch have demonstrated superhuman capabilities on extremely complex information-seeking benchmarks such as BrowseComp, a feat previously unattainable. We posit that their success hinges on a sophisticated reasoning pattern absent in open-source models: the ability to systematically reduce extreme uncertainty when navigating vast information landscapes. Based on this insight, we introduce WebSailor, a complete post-training methodology designed to instill this crucial capability. Our approach involves generating novel, high-uncertainty tasks through structured sampling and information obfuscation, RFT cold start, and an efficient agentic RL training algorithm, Duplicating Sampling Policy Optimization (DUPO). With this integrated pipeline, WebSailor significantly outperforms all opensource agents in complex information-seeking tasks, matching proprietary agents' performance and closing the capability gap.

Kuan Li, Zhongwang Zhang, Huifeng Yin, Liwen Zhang, Litu Ou, Jialong Wu, Wenbiao Yin, Baixuan Li, Zhengwei Tao, Xinyu Wang, Weizhou Shen, Junkai Zhang, Dingchu Zhang, Xixi Wu, Yong Jiang, Ming Yan, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou• 2025

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TaskDatasetResultRank
General AI Assistant TasksGAIA
Accuracy74.1
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Question Answering2Wiki--
152
Deep searchBrowse Comp ZH
Score44.1
50
Deep ResearchBrowseComp-ZH (BC-zh) original (test)
Pass@130.1
45
Web ResearchBrowseComp-ZH
Accuracy (%)30.1
39
Deep searchBrowse Comp
Score35.3
38
Deep ResearchBrowsecomp
Pass@110.5
33
Data Science Agent tasksxBench-DS
Pass@155
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Deep searchBrowseComp-ZH (test)
Accuracy25.5
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Deep searchBrowseComp (test)
Accuracy10.5
27
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