2026-10-28 · ArXiv
arXiv:2605.29927v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Despite recent advances, LLM-based web agents still struggle with limited exploration, omission of critical steps, and sensitivity to task constraints. Prior work suggests that many of these failures stem from weaknesses in planning, yet the impact of alternative natural language plan representations remains unexplored. To address this, we introduce PlanAhead, a static planner-executor framework that evaluates the impact of plan representation on agent performance. We first automatically categorize WebArena tasks into 3 difficulty levels, enabling consistent difficulty grading without human annotation. Then we systematically evaluate 4 different plan representations on the tasks categorized as hard: sequential subgoals, narrative, pseudocode, and checklist; across different families of multimodal LLM-powered agents(OpenAI, Alibaba, and Google). To account for stochastic variability, we introduce a novel decomposition of agent Success Rate (SR) into 2 interpretable evaluation metrics: Achievement Rate (AR) and Solved-Task Consistency (STC). Our results show that both, the plan formulation and the underlying LLM generating the plan, significantly influence web-agent robustness and task success.
原文链接：https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29927
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