WebGrader: Training LLMs for Web Development with Self-Evolving Programmatic Grader
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- arxiv.org
- Author
- Boshui Chen, Huiping Liu, Shaolei Zhang
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Context
WebGrader rewards a website-building model only after observing the requested behavior in a browser. It turns a website request into executable interaction flows, locates the relevant controls using both source code and the live page, and gathers evidence of the resulting state. This addresses a grading problem: a page can look convincing before anyone establishes that its requested interactions work. Research abstract
The system develops reusable verification skills offline and freezes them before model training. On WebGen-Bench, the authors report 52.01% functional success for an eight-billion-parameter model trained with WebGrader, 7.88 percentage points above a matched reward based on appearance and scripts. The result connects the choice of training feedback to better measured website functionality. Reported evaluation
- eval — A repeatable test for AI quality — a set of tasks plus scoring — used the way software teams use test suites, because model output is too variable to judge by eyeballing.
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