---
language:
- en
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
config_names:
- chat
configs:
- config_name: chat
  default: true
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train.csv
  - split: validation
    path: data/valid.csv
  - split: test
    path: data/test_iid.csv
  - split: test_geo
    path: data/test_geo.csv
  - split: test_vis
    path: data/test_vis.csv
  - split: test_cat
    path: data/test_cat.csv
  - split: test_web
    path: data/test_web.csv
tags:
- conversational
- image-to-text
- vision
- convAI
task_categories:
- image-to-text
- text-generation
- text2text-generation
- sentence-similarity
pretty_name: weblinx
---

<div align="center">
  <h1 style="margin-bottom: 0.5em;">WebLINX: Real-World Website Navigation with Multi-Turn Dialogue</h1>
  <em>Xing Han Lù*, Zdeněk Kasner*, Siva Reddy</em>
</div>

<div style="margin-bottom: 2em"></div>


<div style="display: flex; justify-content: space-around; align-items: center; font-size: 120%;">
  <div><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05930">📄Paper</a></div>
  <div><a href="https://mcgill-nlp.github.io/weblinx">🌐Website</a></div>
  <div><a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/McGill-NLP/weblinx-explorer">💻Explorer</a></div>
  <div><a href="https://github.com/McGill-NLP/WebLINX">💾Code</a></div>
  <div><a href="https://twitter.com/sivareddyg/status/1755799365031965140">🐦Tweets</a></div>
  <div><a href="https://huggingface.co/collections/McGill-NLP/weblinx-models-65c57d4afeeb282d1dcf8434">🤖Models</a></div>
</div>

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</video>


## Quickstart

To get started, simply install `datasets` with `pip install datasets` and load the chat data splits:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download

# Load the validation split
valid = load_dataset("McGill-NLP/weblinx", split="validation")

# Download the input templates and use the LLaMA one
snapshot_download(
    "McGill-NLP/WebLINX", repo_type="dataset", allow_patterns="templates/*", local_dir="."
)
with open('templates/llama.txt') as f:
    template = f.read()

# To get the input text, simply pass a turn from the valid split to the template
turn = valid[0]
turn_text = template.format(**turn)
```

You can now use `turn_text` as an input to LLaMA-style models. For example, you can use Sheared-LLaMA:

```python
from transformers import pipeline

action_model = pipeline(
    model="McGill-NLP/Sheared-LLaMA-2.7B-weblinx", device=0, torch_dtype='auto'
)
out = action_model(turn_text, return_full_text=False, max_new_tokens=64, truncation=True)
pred = out[0]['generated_text']

print("Ref:", turn["action"])
print("Pred:", pred)
```

## Raw Data

To use the raw data, you will need to use the `huggingface_hub`:

```python
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download

snapshot_download(repo_id="McGill-NLP/WebLINX-full", repo_type="dataset", local_dir="./wl_data")

# You can download specific demos, for example
demo_names = ['saabwsg', 'ygprzve', 'iqaazif']  # 3 random demo from valid
patterns = [f"demonstrations/{name}/*" for name in demo_names]
snapshot_download(
    repo_id="McGill-NLP/WebLINX-full", repo_type="dataset", local_dir="./wl_data", allow_patterns=patterns
)
```

For more information on how to use this data using our [official library](https://github.com/McGill-NLP/WebLINX), please refer to the [WebLINX documentation](https://mcgill-nlp.github.io/weblinx/docs).

## Citation

If you use our dataset, please cite our work as follows:

```bibtex
@misc{lu-2024-weblinx,
      title={WebLINX: Real-World Website Navigation with Multi-Turn Dialogue}, 
      author={Xing Han Lù and Zdeněk Kasner and Siva Reddy},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2402.05930},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```