PACE: Publisher-Adaptive Content Extraction via Agentic Automation
arXiv:2608.27466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web content extraction is essential for reliable LLM data pipelines, yet existing methods often struggle to jointly satisfy accuracy, scalability, and adaptability. General-purpose extractors can be applied broadly, but they are often brittle on publisher-specific layouts and richer extraction targets such as metadata, images, and tables. Direct LLM-based extraction offers greater flexibility, but incurs substantial cost and latency at scale, while manually engineered publisher-specific parsers can achieve high accuracy but require substantial human effort to build and maintain. We introduce PACE, an agentic framework for learning publisher-specific extraction configurations from representative pages and user requirements. During training, PACE uses LLMs to analyze page structure and aggregate reusable extraction patterns. At inference time, the learned configurations instantiate a fixed deterministic extractor template, enabling scalable extraction without additional LLM calls. Experiments spanning article-body, metadata, and multimodal extraction show that PACE outperforms scalable non-manual baselines while approaching the quality of manually engineered publisher-specific parsers. PACE achieves stronger extraction of article text, metadata, images, and tables, demonstrating that agentic configuration learning can automate publisher-specific extraction for LLM-ready page representations beyond article text.
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Title:PACE: Publisher-Adaptive Content Extraction via Agentic Automation
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Abstract:Web content extraction is essential for reliable LLM data pipelines, yet existing methods often struggle to jointly satisfy accuracy, scalability, and adaptability. General-purpose extractors can be applied broadly, but they are often brittle on publisher-specific layouts and richer extraction targets such as metadata, images, and tables. Direct LLM-based extraction offers greater flexibility, but incurs substantial cost and latency at scale, while manually engineered publisher-specific parsers can achieve high accuracy but require substantial human effort to build and maintain.
We introduce PACE, an agentic framework for learning publisher-specific extraction configurations from representative pages and user requirements. During training, PACE uses LLMs to analyze page structure and aggregate reusable extraction patterns. At inference time, the learned configurations instantiate a fixed deterministic extractor template, enabling scalable extraction without additional LLM calls.
Experiments spanning article-body, metadata, and multimodal extraction show that PACE outperforms scalable non-manual baselines while approaching the quality of manually engineered publisher-specific parsers. PACE achieves stronger extraction of article text, metadata, images, and tables, demonstrating that agentic configuration learning can automate publisher-specific extraction for LLM-ready page representations beyond article text.
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Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.27466
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From: Zhanlin Liu [view email] [v1] Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:12:08 UTC (1,510 KB)
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