WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Scalable Reinforcement Learning
Kuan Li, Zhongwang Zhang, Huifeng Yin, Rui Ye, Yida Zhao, Liwen Zhang, Litu Ou, Ding-Chu Zhang
Abstract
To significantly advance the capabilities of open-source web agents, we present WebSailor-V2, a complete post-training pipeline encompassing data construction, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), and Reinforcement Learning (RL). Our methodology features two key innovations: (1) On the data front, we developed SailorFog-QA-2, a novel dataset built from a densely interconnected knowledge graph that introduces a wide variety of uncertainties beyond simple obfuscation, fostering more sophisticated reasoning. (2) For training, we engineered a dual-environment RL framework, combining a high-fidelity simulator for rapid, low-cost algorithmic iteration with a robust, managed real-world environment for stable final policy training, all integrated within a symbiotic data-policy feedback loop. Trained on the Qwen3-30B-A3B model, WebSailor-V2 achieves state-of-the-art results, scoring 35.3 on BrowseComp-EN, 44.1 on BrowseComp-ZH, and 30.6 on Humanity's Last Exam (HLE). Notably, our 30B-A3B MOE agent significantly outperforms all existing open-source agents and surpasses even the 671B DeepSeek-V3.1, demonstrating performance competitive with leading proprietary systems.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{
li2026websailorv,
title={WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Scalable Reinforcement Learning},
author={Kuan Li and Zhongwang Zhang and Huifeng Yin and Rui Ye and Yida Zhao and Liwen Zhang and Litu Ou and Ding-Chu Zhang and Xixi Wu and Xinmiao Yu and Jialong Wu and Xinyu Wang and Zile Qiao and Zhen Zhang and Yong Jiang and Pengjun Xie and Fei Huang and Zhi-Qin John Xu and Shuai Wang and Minhao Cheng and Jingren Zhou},
booktitle={The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=HuP16O5SJf}
}