Mango: Multi-Agent Web Navigation via Global-View Optimization

arXiv cs.CL / 4/22/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper introduces Mango, a multi-agent web navigation method that uses knowledge of a website’s structure to choose better starting URLs than starting from the root.
  • Mango formulates URL selection as a multi-armed bandit and uses Thompson Sampling to adaptively distribute the navigation budget across candidate URLs during search.
  • It adds episodic memory to record navigation history, allowing the system to learn from prior attempts and reduce wasted exploration.
  • Experiments on WebVoyager show Mango reaches a 63.6% success rate with GPT-5-mini, improving by 7.3% over the best baseline, and on WebWalkerQA it achieves 52.5%, a 26.8% gain.
  • The method is reported to generalize across both open-source and closed-source models, and the authors provide open-source data and code on GitHub.

Abstract

Existing web agents typically initiate exploration from the root URL, which is inefficient for complex websites with deep hierarchical structures. Without a global view of the website's structure, agents frequently fall into navigation traps, explore irrelevant branches, or fail to reach target information within a limited budget. We propose Mango, a multi-agent web navigation method that leverages the website structure to dynamically determine optimal starting points. We formulate URL selection as a multi-armed bandit problem and employ Thompson Sampling to adaptively allocate the navigation budget across candidate URLs. Furthermore, we introduce an episodic memory component to store navigation history, enabling the agent to learn from previous attempts. Experiments on WebVoyager demonstrate that Mango achieves a success rate of 63.6% when using GPT-5-mini, outperforming the best baseline by 7.3%. Furthermore, on WebWalkerQA, Mango attains a 52.5% success rate, surpassing the best baseline by 26.8%. We also demonstrate the generalizability of Mango using both open-source and closed-source models as backbones. Our data and code are open-source and available at https://github.com/VichyTong/Mango.