arXiv Machine Learning By Avinash Baidya, Xinran Liang, Ruocheng Guo, Xiang Gao, Kamalika Das

When Evidence is Sparse: Weakly Supervised Early Failure Alerting in Dialogs and LLM-Agent Trajectories

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arXiv:2606. 05414v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early failure alerting requires deciding, while a dialog or agent trajectory is still unfolding, whether to flag it as likely to fail.

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