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Agentic systems have been widely studied to automate software engineering jobs such as bug fixing. As these systems increasingly tackle complex tasks, understanding where and why they fail becomes essential for iterative refinement and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Minxing Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Yintong Huo

Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed in agentic environments must exercise multiple capabilities across different task instances, where a capability is performing one or more actions in a trajectory that are necessary for successfully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Hangoo Kang , Tarun Suresh , Jon Saad-Falcon , Azalia Mirhoseini

LLM-based multi-agent systems are increasingly deployed on long-horizon tasks, but a single decisive error is often accepted by downstream agents and cascades into trajectory-level failure. Existing work frames this as \emph{post-hoc…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Boxuan Zhang , Jianing Zhu , Zeru Shi , Dongfang Liu , Ruixiang Tang

We introduce a comprehensive validation framework for LLM-based agentic systems that provides systematic diagnosis and improvement of reliability failures. The framework includes fifteen failure-detection tools and two root-cause analysis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Hadar Mulian , Sergey Zeltyn , Ido Levy , Liane Galanti , Avi Yaeli , Segev Shlomov

Failure attribution in LLM multi-agent systems-identifying the agent and step responsible for task failures-provides crucial clues for systems debugging but remains underexplored and labor-intensive. In this paper, we propose and formulate…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shaokun Zhang , Ming Yin , Jieyu Zhang , Jiale Liu , Zhiguang Han , Jingyang Zhang , Beibin Li , Chi Wang , Huazheng Wang , Yiran Chen , Qingyun Wu

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents are widely used in real-world applications such as customer service, web navigation, and software engineering. As these systems become more autonomous and are deployed at scale, understanding why an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chen Qian , Peng Wang , Dongrui Liu , Junyao Yang , Dadi Guo , Ling Tang , Jilin Mei , Qihan Ren , Shuai Shao , Yong Liu , Jie Fu , Jing Shao , Xia Hu

Large Language Model (LLM)-based coding agents show promise in automating software development tasks, yet they frequently fail in ways that are difficult for developers to understand and debug. While general-purpose LLMs like GPT can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Arun Joshi

This paper introduces a new structural causal model tailored for representing threshold-based IT systems and presents a new algorithm designed to rapidly detect root causes of anomalies in such systems. When root causes are not causally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Lei Zan , Charles K. Assaad , Emilie Devijver , Eric Gaussier , Ali Aït-Bachir

Detecting performance issues and identifying their root causes in the runtime is a challenging task. Typically, developers use methods such as logging and tracing to identify bottlenecks. These solutions are, however, not ideal as they are…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Sneh Patel , Brendan Park , Naser Ezzati-Jivan , Quentin Fournier

Large Language Model (LLM) agents offer a powerful new paradigm for solving various problems by combining natural language reasoning with the execution of external tools. However, their dynamic and non-transparent behavior introduces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Peiran Wang , Yang Liu , Yunfei Lu , Yifeng Cai , Hongbo Chen , Qingyou Yang , Jie Zhang , Jue Hong , Ye Wu

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are critical for automating complex tasks, yet their practical deployment is severely hampered by the challenge of failure attribution. Current diagnostic tools, which rely on statistical correlations, are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Guoqing Ma , Jia Zhu , Hanghui Guo , Weijie Shi , Jiawei Shen , Jingjiang Liu , Yidan Liang

Multi-agent trajectory prediction, as a critical task in modeling complex interactions of objects in dynamic systems, has attracted significant research attention in recent years. Despite the promising advances, existing studies all follow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Tangwen Qian , Yile Chen , Gao Cong , Yongjun Xu , Fei Wang

Although recent tool-augmented benchmarks involve complex requests, evaluation remains limited to answer matching, neglecting critical trajectory aspects like efficiency, hallucination, and adaptivity. The most straightforward method for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wonjoong Kim , Sangwu Park , Yeonjun In , Sein Kim , Dongha Lee , Chanyoung Park

Agent frameworks increasingly encode tool-using behavior as explicit workflow graphs, yet safety enforcement remains a runtime concern. These frameworks expose analyzable graph structure through their APIs, enabling pre-deployment static…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Melwin Xavier , Vaisakh M A , Melveena Jolly , Midhun Xavier

Although robotic manipulation has made significant progress, reliable execution remains challenging because task failures are inevitable in dynamic and unstructured environments. To handle such failures, existing frameworks typically follow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sheng Xu , Ruixing Jin , Huayi Zhou , Bo Yue , Guanren Qiao , Yunxin Tai , Yueci Deng , Kui Jia , Guiliang Liu

Post-training data plays a pivotal role in shaping the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet datasets are often treated as isolated artifacts, overlooking the systemic connections that underlie their evolution. To disentangle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yu Li , Xiaoran Shang , Qizhi Pei , Yun Zhu , Xin Gao , Honglin Lin , Zhanping Zhong , Zhuoshi Pan , Zheng Liu , Xiaoyang Wang , Conghui He , Dahua Lin , Feng Zhao , Lijun Wu

Third-party skills are becoming the package ecosystem for LLM agents. They package natural-language instructions, helper scripts, templates, documents, and service configuration into reusable workflows. This makes skills useful, but it also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Haomin Zhuang , Hanwen Xing , Yujun Zhou , Yuchen Ma , Yue Huang , Yili Shen , Yufei Han , Xiangliang Zhang

Modern AI agents execute real-world side effects through tool calls such as file operations, shell commands, HTTP requests, and database queries. A single unsafe action, including accidental deletion, credential exposure, or data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Chenglin Yang

Root cause analysis is one of the most crucial operations in software reliability regarding system performance diagnostic. It aims to identify the root causes of system performance anomalies, allowing the resolution or the future prevention…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Andrea Tonon , Meng Zhang , Bora Caglayan , Fei Shen , Tong Gui , MingXue Wang , Rong Zhou

With the development of foundation model (FM), agentic AI systems are getting more attention, yet their inherent issues like hallucination and poor reasoning, coupled with the frequent ad-hoc nature of system design, lead to unreliable and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Minh-Dung Dao , Quy Minh Le , Hoang Thanh Lam , Duc-Trong Le , Quoc-Viet Pham , Barry O'Sullivan , Hoang D. Nguyen