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Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in mobile networks remains a challenging task due to the need for interpretability, domain expertise, and causal reasoning. In this work, we propose a lightweight framework that leverages Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Mohamed Sana , Nicola Piovesan , Antonio De Domenico , Yibin Kang , Haozhe Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Fadhel Ayed

Availability issues of industrial microservice systems (e.g., drop of successfully placed orders and processed transactions) directly affect the running of the business. These issues are usually caused by various types of service anomalies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dewei Liu , Chuan He , Xin Peng , Fan Lin , Chenxi Zhang , Shengfang Gong , Ziang Li , Jiayu Ou , Zheshun Wu

Large Language Models (LLMs) integrated with agent-based reasoning frameworks have recently shown strong potential for autonomous decision-making and system-level operations. One promising yet underexplored direction is microservice…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Lingzhe Zhang , Yunpeng Zhai , Tong Jia , Chiming Duan , Minghua He , Leyi Pan , Zhaoyang Liu , Bolin Ding , Ying Li

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is becoming increasingly crucial for ensuring the reliability of microservice systems. However, performing RCA on modern microservice systems can be challenging due to their large scale, as they usually comprise…

As modern microservice systems grow increasingly popular and complex-often consisting of hundreds or even thousands of fine-grained, interdependent components-they are becoming more susceptible to frequent and subtle failures. Ensuring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Lingzhe Zhang , Yunpeng Zhai , Tong Jia , Chiming Duan , Siyu Yu , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding , Zhonghai Wu , Ying Li

The growing complexity of cloud based software systems has resulted in incident management becoming an integral part of the software development lifecycle. Root cause analysis (RCA), a critical part of the incident management process, is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Devjeet Roy , Xuchao Zhang , Rashi Bhave , Chetan Bansal , Pedro Las-Casas , Rodrigo Fonseca , Saravan Rajmohan

Detecting failures and identifying their root causes promptly and accurately is crucial for ensuring the availability of microservice systems. A typical failure troubleshooting pipeline for microservices consists of two phases: anomaly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Luan Pham , Huong Ha , Hongyu Zhang

Applications are moving away from monolithic designs to microservice and serverless architectures, where fleets of lightweight and independently deployable components run on public clouds. Autoscaling serves as the primary control mechanism…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Haoyu Bai , Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam , Minxian Xu , Rajkumar Buyya

Effectively localizing root causes of performance anomalies is crucial to enabling the rapid recovery and loss mitigation of microservice applications in the cloud. Depending on the granularity of the causes that can be localized, a service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ruyue Xin , Peng Chen , Zhiming Zhao

Failures in large-scale cloud systems incur substantial financial losses, making automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA) essential for operational stability. Recent efforts leverage Large Language Model (LLM) agents to automate this task, yet…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Taeyoon Kim , Woohyeok Park , Hoyeong Yun , Kyungyong Lee

Large language model (LLM) services have become an integral part of search, assistance, and decision-making applications. However, unlike traditional web or microservices, the hardware and software stack enabling LLM inference deployment is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dominik Scheinert , Alexander Acker , Thorsten Wittkopp , Soeren Becker , Hamza Yous , Karnakar Reddy , Ibrahim Farhat , Hakim Hacid , Odej Kao

Root cause analysis (RCA) in microservice systems is challenging, requiring on-call engineers to rapidly diagnose failures across heterogeneous telemetry such as metrics, logs, and traces. Traditional RCA methods often focus on single…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yifang Tian , Yaming Liu , Zichun Chong , Zihang Huang , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Text-guided object segmentation requires both cross-modal reasoning and pixel grounding abilities. Most recent methods treat text-guided segmentation as one-shot grounding, where the model predicts pixel prompts in a single forward pass to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xingqi He , Yujie Zhang , Shuyong Gao , Wenjie Li , Lingyi Hong , Mingxi Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Jiyuan Fu , Wenqiang Zhang

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve strong performance on complex tasks through extended chains of thought but suffer from high inference latency due to autoregressive reasoning. Recent work explores using Small Reasoning Models (SRMs) to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yi Zhao , Yajuan Peng , Cam-Tu Nguyen , Zuchao Li , Xiaoliang Wang , Xiaoming Fu , Hai Zhao

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

Edge computing environments host increasingly complex microservice-based IoT applications, which are prone to performance anomalies that can propagate across dependent services. Identifying the true source of such anomalies, known as Root…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Duneesha Fernando , Maria A. Rodriguez , Rajkumar Buyya

Bug localization remains a key bottleneck in downstream software maintenance tasks, including root cause analysis, triage, and automated program repair (APR), despite recent advances in large language model (LLM)-based repair systems.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Md Afif Al Mamun , Gias Uddin

Issue localization, which identifies faulty code elements such as files or functions, is critical for effective bug fixing. While recent LLM-based and LLM-agent-based approaches improve accuracy, they struggle in large-scale repositories…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ying Wang , Wenjun Mao , Chong Wang , Zhenhao Zhou , Yicheng Zhou , Wenyun Zhao , Yiling Lou , Xin Peng

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

Identifying root causes for unexpected or undesirable behavior in complex systems is a prevalent challenge. This issue becomes especially crucial in modern cloud applications that employ numerous microservices. Although the machine learning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Michaela Hardt , William R. Orchard , Patrick Blöbaum , Shiva Kasiviswanathan , Elke Kirschbaum