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Causal analysis on relational databases is challenging, as analysis datasets must be repeatedly queried from complex schemas. Recent LLM systems can automate individual steps, but they hardly manage dependencies across analysis stages,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Joanie Hayoun Chung , Sumin Lee , Sungbin Lim

In the realm of microservices architecture, the occurrence of frequent incidents necessitates the employment of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for swift issue resolution. It is common that a serious incident can take several domain experts hours…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Changhua Pei , Zexin Wang , Fengrui Liu , Zeyan Li , Yang Liu , Xiao He , Rong Kang , Tieying Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Jianhui Li , Gaogang Xie , Dan Pei

Credible safety plans for advanced AI development require methods to verify agent behavior and detect potential control deficiencies early. A fundamental aspect is ensuring agents adhere to safety-critical principles, especially when these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ram Potham

Verifying LLM-generated systems code is hard: bugs are prevalent, formal specifications are missing, and safety contracts are encoded implicitly at call sites rather than enforced at function boundaries. We propose agentic model checking, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Youcheng Sun , Jiawen Liu , Daniel Kroening , Jason Xue

Ensuring the security of complex system-on-chips (SoCs) designs is a critical imperative, yet traditional verification techniques struggle to keep pace due to significant challenges in automation, scalability, comprehensiveness, and…

Large Language Model (LLM) agents trained with reinforcement learning (RL) show great promise for solving complex, multi-step tasks. However, their performance is often crippled by "Context Explosion", where the accumulation of long text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xuanzhang Liu , Jianglun Feng , Zhuoran Zhuang , Junzhe Zhao , Maofei Que , Jieting Li , Dianlei Wang , Hao Tong , Ye Chen , Pan Li

Multi-agent systems achieve state-of-the-art outcomes through peer collaboration. However, when an agent in the pipeline silently drops a constraint, the system's final output may look correct even though the reasoning chain was quietly…

LLM-based agents have demonstrated promising adaptability in real-world applications. However, these agents remain vulnerable to a wide range of attacks, such as tool poisoning and malicious instructions, that compromise their execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jiahao Liu , Bonan Ruan , Xianglin Yang , Zhiwei Lin , Yan Liu , Yang Wang , Tao Wei , Zhenkai Liang

We stress test monitoring systems for detecting covert misbehavior in autonomous LLM agents (e.g., secretly sharing private information). To this end, we systematize a monitor red teaming (MRT) workflow that incorporates: (1) varying levels…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Neil Kale , Chen Bo Calvin Zhang , Kevin Zhu , Ankit Aich , Paula Rodriguez , Scale Red Team , Christina Q. Knight , Zifan Wang

Automated intrusion-style workflows require LLM agents to reason over partial observations, tool outputs, and executable artifacts under bounded budgets. A single LLM instance often compresses evidence extraction, planning, execution, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Minfeng Qi , Tianqing Zhu , Zijie Xu , Congcong Zhu , Qin Wang , Wanlei Zhou

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in assisting cybersecurity tasks, yet existing approaches struggle with automatic vulnerability discovery and exploitation due to limited interaction, weak execution grounding, and a lack of…

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agentic systems have shown growing promise in tackling complex, multi-step tasks through autonomous planning, reasoning, and interaction with external environments. However, the stochastic nature of LLM…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shuo Yan , Xiaolin Wen , Shaolun Ruan , Yanjie Zhang , Jiaming Mi , Yushi Sun , Huamin Qu , Rui Sheng

Security incident analysis (SIA) poses a major challenge for security operations centers, which must manage overwhelming alert volumes, large and diverse data sources, complex toolchains, and limited analyst expertise. These difficulties…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Sourov Jajodia , Madeena Sultana , Suryadipta Majumdar , Adrian Taylor , Grant Vandenberghe

Training trustworthy agentic LLMs requires data that shows the grounded reasoning process, not just the final answer. Existing datasets fall short: question-answering data is outcome-only, chain-of-thought data is not tied to specific…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Saber Zerhoudi , Michael Granitzer , Jelena Mitrovic

Many modern software systems are built as a set of autonomous software components (also called agents) that collaborate with each other and are situated in an environment. To keep these multiagent systems operational under abnormal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-19 João Faccin , Ingrid Nunes , Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj

Organisations are starting to adopt LLM-based AI agents, with their deployments naturally evolving from single agents towards interconnected, multi-agent networks. Yet a collection of safe agents does not guarantee a safe collection of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Alistair Reid , Simon O'Callaghan , Liam Carroll , Tiberio Caetano

A critical limitation in large-scale multi-agent systems is the cascading of errors. And without intermediate verification, downstream agents exacerbate upstream inaccuracies, resulting in significant quality degradation. To bridge this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Churong Liang , Jinling Gan , Kairan Hong , Qiushi Tian , Zongze Wu , Runnan Li

Current safety evaluations for LLM-driven agents primarily focus on atomic harms, failing to address sophisticated threats where malicious intent is concealed or diluted within complex tasks. We address this gap with a two-dimensional…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zihan Ma , Dongsheng Zhu , Shudong Liu , Taolin Zhang , Junnan Liu , Qingqiu Li , Minnan Luo , Songyang Zhang , Kai Chen

Modern Security Operations Centers struggle with alert fatigue, fragmented tooling, and limited cross-source event correlation. Challenges that current Security Information Event Management and Extended Detection and Response systems only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Anes Abdennebi , Nadjia Kara , Laaziz Lahlou , Hakima Ould-Slimane

The meteoric rise and proliferation of autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents promise significant capabilities across various domains. However, their deployment is increasingly constrained by substantial computational demands,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Manish Bhatt , Ronald F. Del Rosario , Vineeth Sai Narajala , Idan Habler