The paper introduces a structured reasoning framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) for root cause analysis (RCA) in telecom networks. It organizes heterogeneous network telemetry into canonical contexts, enforces decision‑path reasoning, and produces evidence‑grounded explanations to improve fault identification. Experiments on two 5G RCA datasets, TeleLogs and TelecomTS, show that this approach consistently outperforms baseline techniques in diagnostic accuracy and decision consistency.
By Hao Zhou (Jianzhong), Mandar Kulkarni (Jianzhong), Hao Chen (Jianzhong), Yan Xin (Jianzhong), Charlie (Jianzhong), Zhang
Identifying root causes in production microservice failures requires reasoning over large-scale, multimodal telemetry spanning metrics, logs, and traces, a problem that has proved resistant to both classical and LLM-based approaches. The OpenRCA dataset exemplifies these challenges: it is large-scale, multimodal, and lacks detailed domain knowledge, and yields consistently low accuracy across all existing methods.
arXiv:2607. 13548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying root causes in production microservice failures requires reasoning over large-scale, multimodal telemetry spanning metrics, logs, and traces, a problem that has proved resistant to both classical and LLM-based approaches.
By Athira Gopal, Ashwanth Krishnan
TelecomGPT‑R1‑9B is an open‑source large language model designed specifically for telecom reasoning tasks. It was trained on a 67,427‑example supervised fine‑tuning corpus that covers protocol, knowledge, modeling, and fault reasoning, and further refined with a two‑stage post‑training process involving low‑rank adaptation and policy optimization. The model tops the GSMA open telco leaderboard and matches state‑of‑the‑art closed‑source reasoners across seven public telecom benchmarks.
By Bohao Wang, Chenwei Wu, Haoyu Li, Hang Zou, Yu Tian, Lina Bariah, Li Wei, Chongwen Huang, Yongliang Shen, Zhaoyang Zhang, Merouane Debbah
arXiv:2606. 00582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Network faults propagate layer by layer along topology and protocol dependencies, yet operations systems typically observe only symptomatic alerts at the tail end of propagation chains, where distinct root-cause faults may produce highly similar end-point symptoms.
By Zongzong Wu, Ming Zhao, Fengxiao Tang, Nei Kato
The next generation of mobile networks is envisioned as fully AI-native, with AI-RAN architectures embedding small language models (SLMs) to perform reasoning over real-time telemetry. The state-of-th...