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Source localization in graphs involves identifying the origin of a phenomenon or event, such as an epidemic outbreak or a misinformation source, by leveraging structural graph properties. One key concept in this context is the metric…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Paula Mürmann , Robin Jaccard , Maximilien Dreveton , Aryan Alavi Razavi Ravari , Patrick Thiran

The newly deployed service -- one kind of change service, could lead to a new type of minority fault. Existing state-of-the-art methods for fault localization rarely consider the imbalanced fault classification in change service. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Rui Ren , Jingbang Yang , Linxiao Yang , Xinyue Gu , Liang Sun

In this paper, we propose a new covering technique localized for the trajectories of SGD. This localization provides an algorithm-specific complexity measured by the covering number, which can have dimension-independent cardinality in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-20 Sejun Park , Umut Şimşekli , Murat A. Erdogdu

Despite much progress being made in the field of object recognition with the advances of deep learning, there are still several factors negatively affecting the performance of deep learning models. Domain shift is one of these factors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Kaiyu Guo , Brian Lovell

GROUSE (Grassmannian Rank-One Update Subspace Estimation) is an iterative algorithm for identifying a linear subspace of R^n from data consisting of partial observations of random vectors from that subspace. This paper examines local…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Laura Balzano , Stephen J. Wright

Root cause localization in cloud native microservice systems requires modeling complex service dependencies, irregular temporal dynamics, and heterogeneous observability data. We present HyperODE RCA, a unified framework that combines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Xin Liu , Yuhang He , Sichen Zhao , Kejian Tong , Xingyu Zhang

While fuzzing has demonstrated its effectiveness in exposing vulnerabilities within embedded firmware, the discovery of crashing test cases is only the first step in improving the security of these critical systems. The subsequent fault…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Boyu Chang , Binbin Zhao , Qiao Zhang , Peiyu Liu , Yuan Tian , Raheem Beyah , Shouling Ji

The routing algorithms for parallel computers, on-chip networks, multi-core processors, and multiprocessors system-on-chip (MP-SoCs) exhibit router failures must be able to handle interconnect router failures that render a symmetrical mesh…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-28 Farshad Safaei , Majed ValadBeigi

Automatic failure diagnosis is crucial for large microservice systems. Currently, most failure diagnosis methods rely solely on single-modal data (i.e., using either metrics, logs, or traces). In this study, we conduct an empirical study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Shenglin Zhang , Pengxiang Jin , Zihan Lin , Yongqian Sun , Bicheng Zhang , Sibo Xia , Zhengdan Li , Zhenyu Zhong , Minghua Ma , Wa Jin , Dai Zhang , Zhenyu Zhu , Dan Pei

In many applications, linear models fit the data poorly. This article studies an appealing alternative, the generalized regression model. This model only assumes that there exists an unknown monotonically increasing link function connecting…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-24 Fang Han , Hongkai Ji , Zhicheng Ji , Honglang Wang

The dynamics and complexity of cloud-native systems present significant challenges for Root Cause Analysis (RCA). While causality-based RCA methods have shown significant progress in recent years, their practical adoption is fundamentally…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shuai Liang , Pengfei Chen , Bozhe Tian , Gou Tan , Maohong Xu , Youjun Qu , Yahui Zhao , Yiduo Shang , Chongkang Tan

This paper presents an approach for identifying the root causes of collective anomalies given observational time series and an acyclic summary causal graph which depicts an abstraction of causal relations present in a dynamic system at its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Charles K. Assaad , Imad Ez-zejjari , Lei Zan

As the issue of robustness in AI systems becomes vital, statistical learning techniques that are reliable even in presence of partly contaminated data have to be developed. Preference data, in the form of (complete) rankings in the simplest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Morgane Goibert , Clément Calauzènes , Ekhine Irurozki , Stéphan Clémençon

The complexity and dynamism of microservices pose significant challenges to system reliability, and thereby, automated troubleshooting is crucial. Effective root cause localization after anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Cheryl Lee , Tianyi Yang , Zhuangbin Chen , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Local SGD is a communication-efficient variant of SGD for large-scale training, where multiple GPUs perform SGD independently and average the model parameters periodically. It has been recently observed that Local SGD can not only achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Xinran Gu , Kaifeng Lyu , Longbo Huang , Sanjeev Arora

Root cause analysis in microservice systems typically involves two core tasks: root cause localization (RCL) and failure type identification (FTI). Despite substantial research efforts, conventional diagnostic approaches still face two key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shuaiyu Xie , Hanbin He , Jian Wang , Bing Li

Emergency response is highly dependent on the time of incident reporting. Unfortunately, the traditional approach to receiving incident reports (e.g., calling 911 in the USA) has time delays. Crowdsourcing platforms such as Waze provide an…

The performance of fault localization techniques is critical to their adoption in practice. This paper reports on an empirical study of a wide range of fault localization techniques on real-world faults. Different from previous studies,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Daming Zou , Jingjing Liang , Yingfei Xiong , Michael D. Ernst , Lu Zhang

The unavailability of training data is a permanent source of much frustration in research, especially when it is due to privacy concerns. This is particularly true for location data since previous techniques all suffer from the inherent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Szilvia Lestyán , Gergely Ács , Gergely Biczók

While cloud-native microservice architectures have revolutionized software development, their inherent operational complexity makes failure Root Cause Analysis (RCA) a critical yet challenging task. Numerous data-driven RCA models have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Aoyang Fang , Songhan Zhang , Yifan Yang , Haotong Wu , Junjielong Xu , Xuyang Wang , Rui Wang , Manyi Wang , Qisheng Lu , Pinjia He