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Large language models (LLMs) hallucinate with confidence: their outputs can be fluent, authoritative, and simply wrong. In medical, legal, and scientific applications this failure causes direct harm, and detecting it from internal model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Khizar Hussain , Murat Kantarcioglu

Prior studies investigating the internal workings of LLMs have uncovered sparse subnetworks, often referred to as circuits, that are responsible for performing specific tasks. Additionally, it has been shown that model performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Nikhil Prakash , Donghao Ren , Dominik Moritz , Yannick Assogba

Software debugging is a time-consuming endeavor involving a series of steps, such as fault localization and patch generation, each requiring thorough analysis and a deep understanding of the underlying logic. While large language models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Cheryl Lee , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Longji Yang , Jen-tse Huang , Zhouruixin Zhu , Lingming Zhang , Michael R. Lyu

Fault Localization (FL) is an essential step during the debugging process. With the strong capabilities of code comprehension, the recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in diagnosing bugs in the code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yihao Qin , Shangwen Wang , Yiling Lou , Jinhao Dong , Kaixin Wang , Xiaoling Li , Xiaoguang Mao

Bug bisection has been an important security task that aims to understand the range of software versions impacted by a bug, i.e., identifying the commit that introduced the bug. However, traditional patch-based bisection methods are faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zheng Zhang , Haonan Li , Xingyu Li , Hang Zhang , Zhiyun Qian

With the growing adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in automating complex, multi-agent workflows, organizations face mounting risks from errors, emergent behaviors, and systemic failures that current evaluation methods fail to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-19 NVJK Kartik , Garvit Sapra , Rishav Hada , Nikhil Pareek

We show that large language models (LLMs) exhibit an $\textit{internal chain-of-thought}$: they sequentially decompose and execute composite tasks layer-by-layer. Two claims ground our study: (i) distinct subtasks are learned at different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhipeng Yang , Junzhuo Li , Siyu Xia , Xuming Hu

We present CIFLEX (Contextual Instruction Flow for Sub-task Execution), which is a novel execution system for efficient sub-task handling in multi-turn interactions with a single on-device large language model (LLM). As LLMs become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Juntae Lee , Jihwan Bang , Seunghan Yang , Simyung Chang

The shift from monolithic LLMs to distributed multi-agent architectures demands new frameworks for verifying and securing autonomous coordination. Unlike traditional multi-agent systems focused on cooperative state alignment, modern LLM…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Muhammad Umar Javed

There is a rapidly growing interest in using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate complex network operations, but their reliable adoption requires rigorous assessment of their effectiveness and safety. Existing benchmarks do not address…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ioannis Protogeros , Rufat Asadli , Benjamin Hoffman , Laurent Vanbever

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as conversational assistants in open-domain, multi-turn settings, where users often provide incomplete or ambiguous information. However, existing LLM-focused clarification benchmarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Sichun Luo , Yi Huang , Mukai Li , Shichang Meng , Fengyuan Liu , Zefa Hu , Junlan Feng , Qi Liu

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) improves large language models (LLMs) by allocating additional computation during inference, typically through parallel, sequential, or hybrid scaling. However, prior studies often assume fixed collaboration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Fali Wang , Jihai Chen , Shuhua Yang , Runxue Bao , Tianxiang Zhao , Zhiwei Zhang , Xianfeng Tang , Hui Liu , Qi He , Suhang Wang

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are overwhelmed by tens of thousands of daily alerts, with only a small fraction corresponding to genuine attacks. This overload creates alert fatigue, leading to overlooked threats and analyst burnout.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Bowen Wei , Yuan Shen Tay , Howard Liu , Jinhao Pan , Kun Luo , Ziwei Zhu , Chris Jordan

Agentic AI will be an essential enabling technology for designing future mobile communication systems, which could provide flexible and customized services, automate complex network operations, and drive autonomous decision-making across…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Purna Sai Garigipati , Onur Ayan , Kishor Chandra Joshi , Xueli An

Multi-agent LLM systems have demonstrated impressive capabilities in complex collaborative tasks, yet most frameworks treat communication as instantaneous and free, overlooking a fundamental constraint in real world teamwork, collaboration…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yiming Lu , Xun Wang , Simin Ma , Shujian Liu , Sathish Reddy Indurthi , Song Wang , Haoyun Deng , Fei Liu , Kaiqiang Song

We present here a SAT-based framework for LTLf (Linear Temporal Logic on Finite Traces) satisfiability checking. We use propositional SAT-solving techniques to construct a transition system for the input LTLf formula; satisfiability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Jianwen Li , Kristin Y. Rozier , Geguang Pu , Yueling Zhang , Moshe Y. Vardi

While integrating tools like Code Interpreter and Search has significantly enhanced Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning in models like ChatGPT Agent and Gemini-Pro, practical guidance on optimal tool use is lacking. The core challenge is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yongchao Chen , Jiefeng Chen , Rui Meng , Ji Yin , Na Li , Chuchu Fan , Chi Wang , Tomas Pfister , Jinsung Yoon

LLM agents with persistent memory store information as flat factual records, providing little context for temporal reasoning, change tracking, or cross-session aggregation. Inspired by the drawing effect [3], we introduce dual-trace memory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Benjamin Stern , Peter Nadel

Validating the correctness of network protocol implementations is highly challenging due to the oracle and traceability problems. The former determines when a protocol implementation can be considered buggy, especially when the bugs do not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Mingwei Zheng , Danning Xie , Qingkai Shi , Chengpeng Wang , Xiangyu Zhang

Colluding language-model agents can hide coordination in messages that remain policy-compliant at the surface level. We present CLBC, a protocol where generation and admission are separated: a message is admitted to transcript state only if…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Om Tailor