MKD2World: A Typed Spatial MarkDown World Model For Web Agents

arXiv:2611.06544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphical user interface (GUI) agents can improve decision-making with world-model foresight, provided that predicted states accurately reflect post-action interfaces. Existing state representations fail to jointly capture interface layout, UI semantics, and explicit locations. We introduce Typed Spatial Markdown (TSM), a Markdown-style textual state representation for desktop web interfaces. TSM serializes block-level and atomic-level UI elements according to their spatial relationships, jointly encoding their types, visual semantics, explicit locations, optional control states, and hierarchical membership. To train a screenshot-to-TSM renderer, we construct AtomBlock-WebUI, a dataset with precise annotations at both granularities. By injecting element-type labels into HTML and directly extracting bounding boxes after rendering, we avoid annotation errors caused by post-hoc inference from webpage structures. Building on TSM, we propose MKD2World, a desktop web world model trained in two stages for current-state description and action-conditioned next-state prediction. During inference, the web agent queries MKD2World as needed and performs a ``digest'' step, in which it interprets each predicted state and extracts task-relevant evidence for selecting the best action. Experiments show that MKD2World-9B achieves an EleF1 score of 26.50 on the out-of-domain test set, outperforming GPT-5.6-Sol(14.98) by 11.52 points. Across Online-Mind2Web tasks, MKD2World-9B improves the success rate of the Qwen3.5-35B web agent from 22.94% to 37.61%, achieving competitive performance among leading open-source GUI world models. Code is available at https://github.com/OmniAI-Lab-CUHKSZ/MKD2World.