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New OAT method efficiently traces LLM agent failures without step-level data

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Researchers have developed a new method called OAT for unsupervised failure attribution in LLM-based agentic systems. This approach trains on successful trajectories to identify error steps in failure trajectories at inference time, avoiding the need for costly step-level annotations. OAT utilizes neural controlled differential equations to model the dynamics of successful trajectories, assigning anomaly scores to deviation steps. Experiments show OAT is significantly faster and more accurate than existing prompting-based methods, even with limited training data. AI

IMPACT This research offers a more efficient and scalable method for debugging LLM agents, potentially accelerating their development and deployment.

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Samuel Yeh, Yiwen Zhu, Shaleen Deep, Sharon Li ·

    Tracing Agentic Failure from the Flow of Success

    arXiv:2607.12747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Failure attribution for LLM-based agentic systems, i.e., identifying which steps in a failure trajectory caused the task to fail, is critical for debugging and improving these systems. Existing approaches either rely on prompting-ba…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Sharon Li ·

    Tracing Agentic Failure from the Flow of Success

    Failure attribution for LLM-based agentic systems, i.e., identifying which steps in a failure trajectory caused the task to fail, is critical for debugging and improving these systems. Existing approaches either rely on prompting-based pipelines, which are computationally expensi…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Tracing Agentic Failure from the Flow of Success

    Failure attribution for LLM-based agentic systems, i.e., identifying which steps in a failure trajectory caused the task to fail, is critical for debugging and improving these systems. Existing approaches either rely on prompting-based pipelines, which are computationally expensi…

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