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

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

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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.

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