arXiv AI

SAAG: Structured Agent Assessment and Grounding

arXiv:2607. 18245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Exact-match evaluation of agent-calling obscures qualitatively different failure modes: a model may select the right function yet hallucinate argument values, or satisfy a schema while choosing a agent for the wrong reason.

arXiv AI
Aug 7

TRAJDEBUG: Tracing Error Lifecycle to Identify Critical Failures in Long-Horizon Agent Trajectories

arXiv:2608. 06346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agentic systems have shown remarkable capabilities in complex domains, while suffering from cascading errors and difficulty in debugging.

By Yunjia Qi, Zehua Yin, Xintong Shi, Hao Peng, Songyuanyi Lu, Yixian Liu, Richeng Xuan, Yuhong Liu, Zhichao Hu, Xiaozhi Wang, Lei Hou, Bin Xu, Juanzi Li
arXiv AI
3d ago

Agent Error Dataset: Scaling 50,000 Error--Diagnosis Pairs for Failure Analysis and Error-Aware Post-Training

The Agent Error Dataset (AED) presents 50,228 error–diagnosis pairs collected from 9,961 source tasks across 33 environments, 19 harness families, and 23 policy models in text‑based agent systems. A five‑stage Agentic Error‑to‑Training (AET) pipeline generates diagnoses and proposed corrections, verifies them against recorded evidence, and creates separate training views for diagnosis and actor recovery. Experiments show that first‑proposal corrections improve verifier pass rates from 18.4% to 51.1%, and fine‑tuning with full‑diagnosis data raises Qwen3‑8B’s exact‑step agreement from 47.2% to 63.6% on a holdout set.

By Kunlun Zhu, Xuyan Ye, Yibo Li, Cheng Qian, Beibin Li, Heng Ji
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Cascading Hallucination in Agentic RAG: The CHARM Framework for Detection and Mitigation

arXiv:2606. 04435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines have demonstrated significant capability for complex reasoning tasks, yet remain vulnerable to a class of failure that existing hallucination detection mechanisms systematically miss: cascading hallucination, where errors introduced at early pipeline stages propagate and amplify across successive reasoning steps, producing confident but factually incorrect final outputs.

By Saroj Mishra
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

ParaRecover: A Process-Level Benchmark for Error Localization and Recovery in Parallel Tool-Use Agents

ParaRecover is a new process-level benchmark designed to evaluate error localization and recovery in multi-turn parallel tool-use agents. It contains 10,626 instances across two difficulty levels, built on a taxonomy of 14 error types that cover planning dependencies, tool selection, and argument matching. The benchmark introduces the SDE rubric, which assesses structural integrity, diagnostic reasoning, and evolutionary strategy during agent execution, and demonstrates that it can guide improvements in agents’ reflective recovery capabilities.

By Bowen Guan, Zhentao Yin, Yanming Shen
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Understanding Automated Program Repair Agents Through the Lens of Traceability: An Empirical Study

The paper presents a systematic analysis of five state‑of‑the‑art automated program repair agents, tracing their decision‑making across 500 real‑world repair tasks. It finds that while the agents perform well on simple fixes, they struggle with logic‑intensive bugs, often producing verbose, overfitted patches that pass tests without addressing root causes. Key bottlenecks identified include poor test generation, limited regression test selection, and reliance on primitive tooling without access to debuggers or advanced program analysis tools.

By Ira Ceka, Hailie Mitchell, Saurabh Pujar, Luca Buratti, Shyam Ramji, Junfeng Yang, Gail Kaiser, Baishakhi Ray
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Diagnosing with Insights: Structured Analysis of Agent Failures via Behavioral Abstractions

The paper introduces AGENTSCOPE, a neuro‑symbolic method for diagnosing failures in large language model agents. It abstracts agent trajectories into structured representations and employs neural invariants to define behavior properties. Using LLM‑guided reasoning on these abstractions, AGENTSCOPE identifies both the failure step and its type, outperforming existing techniques on several datasets.

By Jiayi Bi, Yanjie Gao, Yuanmin Xie, Liqun Li, Tianyin Xu, Fan Yang, Mao Yang
arXiv AI
Jun 30

A Multi-Dataset Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Agents in Microservice Failure Diagnosis

arXiv:2606. 29193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents are reshaping microservice operations into AgentOps, where benchmarks are key to evaluating failure diagnosis over multimodal observability data.

By Yuanhong Cai, Xiaohui Nie, Kanglin Yin, Changhua Pei, Yongqian Sun, Shenglin Zhang, Haibin Liu, Guiyang Liu, Xidao Wen, Fang Situ, Dan Pei
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Monitoring Agentic Systems Before They're Reliable

arXiv:2606. 02494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic systems entering production typically operate as partially integrated assemblies where structural defects, not task-level errors, dominate the failure landscape.

By Marisa Ferrara Boston, Glen Hanson, Effi Georgala, JD Hudgens, Heather Frase