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Surfer-H Meets Holo1: Cost-Efficient Web Agent Powered by Open Weights

Mathieu Andreux, Breno Baldas Skuk, Hamza Benchekroun, Emilien Biré, Antoine Bonnet, Riaz Bordie, Nathan Bout, Matthias Brunel, Pierre-Louis Cedoz, Antoine Chassang, Mickaël Chen, Alexandra D. Constantinou, Antoine d'Andigné, Hubert de La Jonquière, Aurélien Delfosse, Ludovic Denoyer, Alexis Deprez, Augustin Derupti, Michael Eickenberg, Mathïs Federico, Charles Kantor, Xavier Koegler, Yann Labbé, Matthew C. H. Lee, Erwan Le Jumeau de Kergaradec, Amir Mahla, Avshalom Manevich, Adrien Maret, Charles Masson, Rafaël Maurin, Arturo Mena, Philippe Modard, Axel Moyal, Axel Nguyen Kerbel, Julien Revelle, Mats L. Richter, María Santos, Laurent Sifre, Maxime Theillard, Marc Thibault, Louis Thiry, Léo Tronchon, Nicolas Usunier, Tony Wu

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We present Surfer-H, a cost-efficient web agent that integrates Vision-Language Models (VLM) to perform user-defined tasks on the web. We pair it with Holo1, a new open-weight collection of VLMs specialized in web navigation and information extraction. Holo1 was trained on carefully curated data sources, including open-access web content, synthetic examples, and self-produced agentic data. Holo1 tops generalist User Interface (UI) benchmarks as well as our new web UI localization benchmark, WebClick. When powered by Holo1, Surfer-H achieves a 92.2% state-of-the-art performance on WebVoyager, striking a Pareto-optimal balance between accuracy and cost-efficiency. To accelerate research advancement in agentic systems, we are open-sourcing both our WebClick evaluation dataset and the Holo1 model weights.

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