English
Related papers

Related papers: AgentForesight: Online Auditing for Early Failure …

200 papers

LLM Agents are becoming central to intelligent systems. However, their deployment raises serious safety concerns. Existing defenses largely rely on "Safety Checks", which struggle to capture the complex semantic risks posed by harmful user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shiyu Xiang , Tong Zhang , Ronghao Chen

Multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs) require many coordination choices that are difficult to fix a priori: which skill protocol to invoke, which agent role should perform a subtask, which model to bind to each role, how…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Nicole Koenigstein

LLM-agent training pipelines routinely discard failed trajectories even though GPT-4o achieves only 14-20% on WebArena and below 55% pass@1 on ToolBench; even specialised systems at 50-65% leave the majority of trajectories unused. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Liang Ding

LLM agents rely heavily on high-quality trajectory data to guide their problem-solving behaviors, yet producing such data requires substantial task design, high-capacity model generation, and manual filtering. Despite the high cost of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wenlong Meng , Chen Gong , Terry Yue Zhuo , Fan Zhang , Kecen Li , Zheng Liu , Zhou Yang , Chengkun Wei , Wenzhi Chen

This paper introduces lateral thinking to implement System-2 reasoning capabilities in AI systems, focusing on anticipatory and causal reasoning under uncertainty. We present a framework for systematic generation and modeling of lateral…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Stefan Dernbach , Alejandro Michel , Khushbu Agarwal , Christopher Brissette , Geetika Gupta , Sutanay Choudhury

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has led to the rise of LLM-based agents. Recent research shows that multi-agent systems (MAS), where each agent plays a specific role, can outperform individual LLMs. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Chi-Min Chan , Jianxuan Yu , Weize Chen , Chunyang Jiang , Xinyu Liu , Weijie Shi , Zhiyuan Liu , Wei Xue , Yike Guo

Agent orchestration frameworks have proliferated, collectively exceeding 290,000 GitHub stars across LangGraph, CrewAI, Google ADK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Semantic Kernel, Strands, and LlamaIndex. All follow the same pattern: an external…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Simon Dennis , Rivaan Patil , Kevin Shabahang , Hao Guo

Recent advances in agentic AI have shifted the focus from standalone Large Language Models (LLMs) to integrated systems that combine LLMs with tools, memory, and other agents to perform complex tasks. These multi-agent architectures enable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sreemaee Akshathala , Bassam Adnan , Mahisha Ramesh , Karthik Vaidhyanathan , Basil Muhammed , Kannan Parthasarathy

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) like o3 and DeepSeek-R1 have achieved remarkable progress in reasoning tasks with long cot. However, they remain computationally inefficient and struggle with accuracy when solving problems requiring complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haipeng Luo , Huawen Feng , Qingfeng Sun , Can Xu , Kai Zheng , Yufei Wang , Tao Yang , Han Hu , Yansong Tang

Large Language Model (LLM) agents increasingly operate across domains such as robotics, virtual assistants, and web automation. However, their stochastic decision-making introduces safety risks that are difficult to anticipate during…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Haoyu Wang , Christopher M. Poskitt , Jiali Wei , Jun Sun

Large language model-driven multi-agent systems (LLM-MAS) excel at complex tasks, yet unreliable agents remain a key bottleneck to system-level reliability. Automatic failure attribution is therefore critical, but existing approaches, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hezhe Qiao , Hanghang Tong , Ee-Peng Lim , Bing Liu , Guansong Pang

Multi-agent Large Language Model (LLM) systems have emerged as powerful architectures for complex task decomposition and collaborative problem-solving. However, their long-term behavioral stability remains largely unexamined. This study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Abhishek Rath

Tool-calling agents are evaluated on tool selection, parameter accuracy, and scope recognition, yet LLM trajectory assessments remain inherently post-hoc. Disconnected from the active execution loop, such assessments identify errors that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Anh Ta , Junjie Zhu , Shahin Shayandeh

Effective incident management in large-scale IT systems relies on troubleshooting guides (TSGs), but their manual execution is slow and error-prone. While recent advances in LLMs offer promise for automating incident management tasks,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jiayi Mao , Liqun Li , Yanjie Gao , Zegang Peng , Shilin He , Chaoyun Zhang , Si Qin , Samia Khalid , Qingwei Lin , Saravan Rajmohan , Sitaram Lanka , Dongmei Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, but optimizing LLM-based agentic systems remains challenging due to the vast search space of agent configurations, prompting strategies, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Patara Trirat , Wonyong Jeong , Sung Ju Hwang

Although LLM-based agents, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), can use external tools and memory mechanisms to solve complex real-world tasks, they may also introduce critical security vulnerabilities. However, the existing literature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hanrong Zhang , Jingyuan Huang , Kai Mei , Yifei Yao , Zhenting Wang , Chenlu Zhan , Hongwei Wang , Yongfeng Zhang

Verifiers have been demonstrated to enhance LLM reasoning via test-time scaling (TTS). Yet, they face significant challenges in complex domains. Error propagation from incorrect intermediate reasoning can lead to false positives for…

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has sparked growing interest in their integration into autonomous systems for reasoning-driven perception, planning, and decision-making. However, evaluating and training such agentic AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Abderrahmane Lakas , Merouane Debbah

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed within agentic systems - collections of interacting, LLM-powered agents that execute complex, adaptive workflows using memory, tools, and dynamic planning. While enabling powerful new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Dany Moshkovich , Sergey Zeltyn

Failure attribution in LLM-based multi-agent systems aims to identify the steps that contribute to a failed execution. This task remains difficult because a single execution can contain many agent actions and tool calls, failure evidence…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yang Liu , Hongjiang Feng , Junsong Pu , Zhuangbin Chen