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
Oct 5

Lightweight, Rubric-Guided Trajectory Evaluation for Production AI Agents

LiteTrajEval is a lightweight architecture designed for budget‑bounded trajectory evaluation of large‑language‑model agents. It creates compact domain‑specific rule profiles offline, preprocesses trajectories online to flag heuristic failure signals, and then uses a single rubric‑guided LLM judge to generate structured diagnostic reports. On public Magnetic‑One‑style and τ‑bench‑style datasets, LiteTrajEval improves failure‑localization alignment with human annotations by 20–35 percentage points and reduces cost and evaluation time by 6× and 8× respectively, and has been deployed in an enterprise agentic platform.

By Linh-An Phan, MingXue Wang, Guangyu Wu, Feng Pan, Zhaoyu Pang, Yanbin Zhang
arXiv AI
Oct 2

DeFA: Dependency-Guided Failure Attribution for LLM Agents

DeFA is a dependency-guided framework that attributes failures in large language model agents by constructing an event dependency graph and a failure propagation graph from protocol relations and semantic dependencies. It identifies violating events, traces their sources and effects, and determines the decisive error, responsible agent, and error category. The method supports long trajectories through segmentation and has shown superior accuracy on text, image, and video tasks, while its diagnostic feedback can improve agent performance on subsequent tasks.

By Bo Deng, Xinlei Zheng, Yi Wei, Kang Zhou, Chongyang Tao, Renzhao Liang, Xuanren Chen, Lifan Guo, Chi Zhang