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WebWatcher: Breaking New Frontier of Vision-Language Deep Research Agent research paper by Alibaba (Qwen), 2025

Alibaba (Qwen) · Aug 7, 2025 · Agents and evaluation · 117 citations · 141 upvotes · unverified

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WebWatcher, a multimodal agent with enhanced visual-language reasoning, outperforms existing agents in complex visual and textual information retrieval tasks using synthetic trajectories and reinforcement learning.

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About this paper
Authors
Xinyu Geng, Peng Xia, Zhen Zhang and 11 more
arXiv
2508.05748 · PDF
Venue
arXiv.org
Citations
117, 19 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
141 · Hugging Face
Code
github.com/Alibaba-NLP/WebAgent
Lab
Alibaba (Qwen) · on Companies · on Quarterly

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Influential citationsfirst count: 19Sep 25, 2026
Citationsfirst count: 117Sep 25, 2026
New paperFound by the weekly scan, unverifiedSep 25, 2026

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