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Beyond Conditional Independence: Root Cause Analysis with Deep Causal Models
Sep 29, 2026Md Musfiqur Rahman, Kenneth Lee, Ziwei Jiang +3Root Cause Analysis Conditional Independence
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University · Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University · Intuit AI Research +1
Automatic Harness Evolution for Hardware Design Verification: Can LLMs Consolidate Gains Across Discovered Harnesses?
Sep 24, 2026Kidus Seyoum, Ajay MitturAutomated Heuristic Design Deterministic Replay
NVIDIA
Does Graph Structure Earn Its Place in Microservice Root-Cause Analysis? A Controlled Study on RCAEval, and What the Benchmark Was Really Measuring
Sep 22, 2026Imad BuljićRoot Cause Analysis Microservices
Polytechnic Faculty, University of Zenica
TriFleetRCA: On-Premise LLM Root Cause Analysis for Kubernetes
Sep 20, 2026Rohit Patel, Susil Kumar Mohanty, Jeenal ChaudharyRoot Cause Analysis Kubernetes
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India
TriCalRAG: A Three-Strategy, Retrieval-Augmented Benchmark for On-Premise LLM-Based Root Cause Analysis in AIOps
Sep 13, 2026Rohit Patel, Susil Kumar Mohanty, Jeenal ChaudharyRoot Cause Analysis
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India
Root-Cause Attribution Is a Search Problem: Continual Search for Long-Horizon Agent Failures
Sep 11, 2026Harsh Raj, David Lee, Anas Mahmoud +7Root Cause Analysis Long-Horizon Agents
Scale AI · Scale AI Research
GALA: Graph-Augmented LLM Agents for Root Cause Analysis and Incident Response in Microservices
Aug 10, 2026Yifang Tian, Yaming Liu, Zichun Chong +3Microservices Root Cause Analysis
University of Toronto Toronto, Canada
SearchAuditor: Auditing and Attributing Failures in Long-Horizon Search Agents
Aug 5, 2026Zhixiang Liang, Yifei Liu, Yidan Huang +5Search Agents Model Auditing
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · 2Joy Future Academy, JD
TELLER: Non-intrusive Cross-Layer Root-Cause Analysis for LLM Inference
Aug 3, 2026Ruilin Xu, Junyi Li, Pengfei Chen +1LLM Inference Optimization Root Cause Analysis
Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou, China
CUADebug: Diagnosing and Repairing Computer-Use Agent Failures
Jul 31, 2026Weijia Zhang, Kunlun Zhu, Zeyi Liu +8Model Debugging Computer-Use Agents
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · 2Yale University
ORCA-bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?
Jul 30, 2026Albert Gong, Kyuseong Choi, Abhineet Agarwal +5Root Cause Analysis Coding Agents
Cornell Tech · Traversal · Columbia University
EvoCause: LLM-Guided Evolution of Causal Graphs for Root Cause Analysis
Jul 29, 2026Lei Zan, Keli Zhang, Shifeng Xie +7Root Cause Analysis Causal Graph
Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab · Guangdong University of Technology, Peng Cheng Laboratory
Conformal Changepoint Localization and Root Cause Analysis with Corrupted Observations
Jul 29, 2026Seunghun Yu, Meiyi Zhu, Petar Popovski +2Change-Point Detection Conformal Inference
Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, South Korea · Department of Engineering, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS, London, U.K. · Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg, Denmark +2
Untangling Co-Drift: Proactive Multi-Intent Failure Prediction and Root-Cause Disambiguation for Self-Driving Networks
Jul 28, 2026Md. Kamrul Hossain, Walid AljobyEarly Failure Prediction Root Cause Analysis
Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia · Information and Computer Science Department, and IRC for Intelligent Secure Systems, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
Agentic Root Cause Analysis through Evidence-Grounded Reasoning
Jul 24, 2026Amaury Wei, Olga FinkRoot Cause Analysis Multimodal Industrial Anomaly Detection
EPFL - IMOS Laboratory CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland
FailureAtlas: A Taxonomy of Failure Modes in Multi-Provider LLM Serving Infrastructure
Jul 20, 2026Vishal Pandey, Gopal SinghLatent Failure Patterns Large Language Models Fail
Metriqual London, UK · Metriqual Athens, GR
How Far Can Root Cause Analysis Go on Real-World Telemetry Data?
Jul 15, 2026Athira Gopal, Ashwanth KrishnanRoot Cause Analysis Microservices
QPIAI India
From Noisy Traces to Root Causes: Structural Trajectory Analysis and Causal Extraction for Agent Optimization
Jul 8, 2026Ying Chang, Jiahang Xu, Xuan Feng +3Agentic Optimization Traces
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Microsoft Research.
Sample-Efficient Learning of Probabilistic Causes for Reachability in Markov Decision Processes with Probabilistic Guarantees
Jun 29, 2026Ryohei Oura, Georgios Fainekos, Hideki Okamoto +1Markov Decision Processes Reachability
Toyota Research Institute of North America, Toyota Motor North America · Frontier Research Center, Toyota Motor Corporation
Pooled Leaderboards Hide System-Specific Winners: A Reporting-Protocol Audit of Offline Root-Cause Analysis Benchmarks
Jun 28, 2026Lining Hu, Ting Liu, Yuzhuo FuRoot Cause Analysis Leaderboard
School of Electronic, Information and Electrical Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China
RecallRisk-BERT: A Multi-Task Framework for Post-Report Medical Device Recall Triage
Jun 25, 2026Ali Semih Atalay, Sevgi Yigit-SertTriage Root Cause Analysis
aDepartment of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ankara University, Ankara, 06830, Türkiye
OpenRCA 2.0: From Outcome Labels to Causal Process Supervision
Jun 25, 2026Aoyang Fang, Yifan Yang, Jin'ao Shang +7Root Cause Analysis Real-World Cloud Fault Injection Dataset
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Lero · The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Holmes: Multimodal Agentic Diagnosis for Mixed-Language Mobile Crashes at Industrial Scale
Jun 20, 2026Jia Li, Wenyuan Ma, Ting Peng +2Root Cause Analysis Multimodal Clinical Data
Tencent Inc. Shenzhen, China
Root Cause Analysis with Latent Confounders using Partial Ancestral Graphs
Jun 18, 2026Henrique O. Caetano, Rafael Arone, Carlos Dias MacielRoot Cause Analysis Latent Confounders
Signal Processing Laboratory, São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil · Guaratinguetá School of Engineering, São Paulo State University, Guaratinguetá, Brazil
A Topology-Aware, Memory-Centric Architecture that Separates Root-Cause Derivation from Root-Cause Explanation
Jun 18, 2026Momil SeedatMicroservices Root Cause Analysis
Independent Research Prototype
JustDiag!: A Diagnostic Justification Engine for Accountable Root Cause Analysis
Jun 17, 2026Tingzhu Bi, Xinrui Jiang, Xun Zhang +5Root Cause Analysis Diagnosis
Peking University · University of Edinburgh · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
SDVDiag: Multimodal Causal Discovery for Online Diagnosis in Software-defined Vehicles
Jun 14, 2026Matthias Weiß, Athreya Hosahalli Prakash, Falk Dettinger +2Root Cause Analysis Real-World Cloud Fault Injection Dataset
Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering (IAS) University of Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 47, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
NetCause: Counterfactual Learning for Root Cause Analysis in Large-Scale Networks
Jun 11, 2026Fabien Chraim, Jian Zhang, Dominik Janzing +3Root Cause Analysis Causal Graph
Amazon Web Services, Seattle, Washington, USA
Graphical Causal Reasoning for Root Cause Analysis in Cloud Networks
Jun 11, 2026Fabien Chraim, Dominik Janzing, John EvansRoot Cause Analysis Causal Graph
Amazon Web Services
Multi-Field Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Maritime Accident Root Cause Analysis
Jun 11, 2026Seongjin Kim, Sungil KimMaritime Navigation Root Cause Analysis
Department of Industrial Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea.
Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis for Microservice Systems
Jun 8, 2026Luan PhamMicroservices Root Cause Analysis
Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City - University of Technology (HCMUT) · School of Computing Technologies, College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Auditable Graph-Guided Root Cause Analysis for Kubernetes Incidents
Jun 7, 2026Anastasiia Kuvshinova, Seungmin JinRoot Cause Analysis Reasoning Graphs
HSE University Moscow, Russia
StableRCA: Robust Graph-Agnostic Mechanism-Level Root Cause Analysis
Jun 4, 2026Xiaoyu Lin, Nicholas Tagliapietra, Kehan Li +2Root Cause Analysis Causal Graph
Computer Science Department TU Darmstadt, Germany
StepFinder: A Temporal Semantic Framework for Failure Attribution in Multi-Agent Systems
Jun 2, 2026Taiyu Zhu, Yifan Wu, Weilin Jin +2Root Cause Analysis
Peking University Beijing, China
QoEReasoner: An Agentic Reasoning Framework for Automated and Explainable QoE Diagnosis in RANs
Jun 1, 2026Qizhe Li, Haolong Chen, Shan Dai +5Open Radio Access Networks Root Cause Analysis
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. +1
Agent System Operations: Categorization, Challenges, and Future Directions
Jun 1, 2026Zexin Wang, Changhua Pei, Yuanhao Liu +10Production Agentic Systems Root Cause Analysis
CNIC, CAS · Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS · Singapore Management University +1
PropLLM: Propagation-Aware Scene Reconstruction for Network Fault Diagnosis
May 30, 2026Zongzong Wu, Ming Zhao, Fengxiao Tang +1Root Cause Analysis Diagnosis
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China · Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
ORCA: An End-to-End Interactive Copilot for Optimized Root Cause Analysis
May 26, 2026Phi Nguyen Xuan, Nicholas Tagliapietra, Lavdim Halilaj +2Causal Discovery Methods Root Cause Analysis
Bosch Global Software Technologies Company Limited, Vietnam · Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany · Computer Science Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany +2
Causely: A Causal Intelligence Layer for Enterprise AI A Benchmark Study on SRE and Reliability Workflows
May 18, 2026Dhairya Dalal, Endre Sara, Ben Yemini +2Root Cause Analysis Microservices
Causely
Automated Root-Cause Subclassification and No-Code Fix Generation for Invalid Bug Reports
May 17, 2026Mahmut Furkan Gon, Emre Dinc, Tevfik Emre Sungur +1Bug Code Generation
Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, T̈urkiye.
TopoEvo: A Topology-Aware Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Framework for Root Cause Analysis in Microservices
May 15, 2026Junle Wang, Xingchuang Liao, Wenjun WuRoot Cause Analysis Microservices
School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University Beijing, China
STAR: A Stage-attributed Triage and Repair framework for RCA Agents in Microservices
May 15, 2026Junle Wang, Xingchuang Liao, Wenjun WuRoot Cause Analysis Microservices
School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University
Towards In-Depth Root Cause Localization for Microservices with Multi-Agent Recursion-of-Thought
May 14, 2026Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Kangjin Wang +8Microservices Root Cause Analysis
Peking University, Beijing, China · Huawei Theory Lab, China
PRIM: Meta-Learned Bayesian Root Cause Analysis
May 9, 2026Christopher Lohse, Anish Dhir, Amadou Ba +3Root Cause Analysis Causal Inferences
University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland · IBM · Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London +2
SADE: Symptom-Aware Diagnostic Escalation for LLM-Based Network Troubleshooting
May 6, 2026Kuan-Hao Tseng, Niruth Bogahawatta, Yasod Ginige +3Root Cause Analysis Triage
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia · University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
EventADL: Open-Box Anomaly Detection and Localization Framework for Events in Cloud-Based Service Systems
May 1, 2026Luan Pham, Victor Nicolet, Joey Dodds +2Interpretable Anomaly Detection Root Cause Analysis
RMIT University, Australia · Amazon Web Services, United States
Hypergraph and Latent ODE Learning for Multimodal Root Cause Localization in Microservices
May 1, 2026Xin Liu, Yuhang He, Sichen Zhao +2Root Cause Analysis Microservices
Independent Researcher New York, USA · Independent Researcher Chicago, USA · Northeastern University Boston, USA +2
TRUST: A Framework for Decentralized AI Service v.0.1
Apr 29, 2026Yu-Chao Huang, Zhen Tan, Mohan Zhang +3Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence AI Trustworthiness
UNITES Lab, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Arizona State University · Columbia University
Bian Que: An Agentic Framework with Flexible Skill Arrangement for Online System Operations
Apr 29, 2026Bochao Liu, Zhipeng Qian, Yang Zhao +10Incident Response Agentic Framework
Kuaishou Technology
AgentEval: DAG-Structured Step-Level Evaluation for Agentic Workflows with Error Propagation Tracking
Apr 26, 2026Dongxin Guo, Jikun Wu, Siu Ming YiuAgentic Evaluations Agentic Workflows
The University of Hong Kong · Stellaris AI Limited
RAVEN: Retrieval-Augmented Vulnerability Exploration Network for Memory Corruption Analysis in User Code and Binary Programs
Apr 20, 2026Parteek Jamwal, Minghao Shao, Boyuan Chen +15Root Cause Analysis
2New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE · 3Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
Conditional Attribution for Root Cause Analysis in Time-Series Anomaly Detection
Apr 19, 2026Shashank Mishra, Karan Patil, Cedric Schockaert +2Time-Series Anomaly Detection Interpretable Anomaly Detection
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany · Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany · Paul Wurth S.A, Luxembourg
Root Cause Analysis of Outliers in Unknown Cyclic Graphs
Oct 8, 2025Daniela Schkoda, Dominik JanzingCausal Graph Root Cause Analysis
Amazon Research Tübingen, Germany · Technical University of Munich, Germany

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Beyond Conditional Independence: Root Cause Analysis with Deep Causal Models

Md Musfiqur Rahman, Kenneth Lee, Ziwei Jiang, Padmaja Jonnalagedda+2

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University · Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University · Intuit AI Research+1

Root Cause Analysis Conditional Independence Latent Confounders

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Root cause analysis (RCA) is a critical problem in many real-world scenarios. RCA enables the identification of faulty or failing mechanisms in a system by comparing anomalous observations with corresponding reference (i.e., regular) observations. However, existing approaches rely either on heuristic methods or on conditional independence tests with a strong unconfoundedness assumption, and thus fail to exploit other complicated distributional constraints in the presence of latent variables. To relax these assumptions, we model the underlying system as a causal model and the anomalous system as a change in the structural functions of the same causal model. Specifically, to handle unobserved confounders, we establish an implicit connection between distributional constraint testing and root cause analysis. To adapt our approach to data generated from arbitrary causal models, we employ the deep causal model (DCM) framework, in which we design the causal model using neural networks. Finally, we illustrate how our method, RCA-DCM, can utilize different levels of partial graphical knowledge to perform RCA. We evaluate RCA-DCM against state-of-the-art baselines on simulated datasets, a physics-based causal chamber and two micro-service applications. RCA-DCM improves top-1 accuracy over the strongest baseline on both Sock Shop (0.880 vs. 0.752) and Online Boutique (0.776 vs. 0.712), and when the true root cause in the causal chamber is unobserved and acts as a latent confounder, it recovers the exact root-cause set more often than any competing method (perfect recovery rate (PRR) 0.846 vs. 0.731).

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