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Abstract

Modern AI assistants have made significant progress in natural language understanding and API/tool integration, with emerging efforts to incorporate diverse interfaces (such as Web interfaces) for enhanced scalability and functionality. However, current approaches that heavily rely on repeated LLM-driven HTML parsing are computationally expensive and error-prone, particularly when handling dynamic web interfaces and multi-step tasks. To overcome these challenges, we introduce PAFFA (Premeditated Actions For Fast Agents), a framework designed to enhance web interaction capabilities through an Action API Library of reusable, verified browser interaction functions. By pre-computing interaction patterns and employing two core methodologies - "Dist-Map" for task-agnostic element distillation and "Unravel" for incremental page-wise exploration - PAFFA reduces inference calls by 87% while maintaining robust performance even as website structures evolve. This framework accelerates multi-page task execution and offers a scalable solution to advance autonomous web agent research.

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Title
PAFFA: Premeditated Actions For Fast Agents
Publication title
arXiv.org; Ithaca
Publication year
2024
Publication date
Dec 10, 2024
Section
Computer Science
Publisher
Cornell University Library, arXiv.org
Source
arXiv.org
Place of publication
Ithaca
Country of publication
United States
University/institution
Cornell University Library arXiv.org
e-ISSN
2331-8422
Source type
Working Paper
Language of publication
English
Document type
Working Paper
Publication history
 
 
Online publication date
2024-12-12
Milestone dates
2024-12-10 (Submission v1)
Publication history
 
 
   First posting date
12 Dec 2024
ProQuest document ID
3143450801
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2024-12-13
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