@inproceedings{gangi-reddy-etal-2025-infogent,
    title = "Infogent: An Agent-Based Framework for Web Information Aggregation",
    author = {Gangi Reddy, Revanth  and
      Mukherjee, Sagnik  and
      Kim, Jeonghwan  and
      Wang, Zhenhailong  and
      Hakkani-T{\"u}r, Dilek  and
      Ji, Heng},
    editor = "Chiruzzo, Luis  and
      Ritter, Alan  and
      Wang, Lu",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025",
    month = apr,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.findings-naacl.318/",
    pages = "5745--5758",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-195-7",
    abstract = "Despite seemingly performant web agents on the task-completion benchmarks, most existing methods evaluate the agents based on a presupposition: the web navigation task consists of a linear sequence of actions with an end state that marks task completion. In contrast, our work focuses on web navigation for information aggregation, wherein the agent must explore different websites to gather information for a complex query. We consider web information aggregation from two different perspectives: i) Direct API-driven Access relies on a text-only view of the Web, leveraging external tools such as Google Search API to navigate the Web and a scraper to extract website contents. (ii) Interactive Visual Access uses screenshots of the webpages and requires interaction with the browser to navigate and access information. Motivated by these diverse information access settings, we introduce Infogent, a novel modular framework for web information aggregation involving three distinct components: Navigator, Extractor, and Aggregator. Experiments on different information access settings demonstrate that Infogent beats an existing SOTA multi-agent search framework by 7{\%} under Direct API-Driven Access on FRAMES and improves over an existing information-seeking web agent by 4.3{\%} under Interactive Visual Access on AssistantBench."
}