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most citedRCAgent: Cloud Root Cause Analysis by Autonomous Agents with Tool-Augmented Large Language Models

87 citations · 140 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.LG2026

Towards A Unified Information Bottleneck Framework for Time Series Explanations

Xu Zheng, Zichuan Liu, Zhuomin Chen +7

Explaining deep learning models operating on time series data is crucial in various applications that require transparent and interpretable insights into model behavior. {Existing…

cs.IR2026

Tool-Adaptive LLM Reranker

Zichuan Liu, Ruijin Hua

Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized information retrieval, yet their strictly parametric nature frequently leads to severe factual hallucinations when confr…

cs.LG2026

Diversified Scaling Inference in Time Series Foundation Models

Ruijin Hua, Zichuan Liu, Kun Zhang +1

The advancement of Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) has been driven primarily by large-scale pre-training, but inference-time compute potential remains largely untapped. This…

cs.LG2025

Sample-efficient LLM Optimization with Reset Replay

Zichuan Liu, Jinyu Wang, Lei Song +1

Recent advancements in LLM post-training, particularly through reinforcement learning and preference optimization, are key to boosting their reasoning capabilities. However, these…

cs.LG2025

Time-RA: Towards Time Series Reasoning for Anomaly Diagnosis with LLM Feedback

Yiyuan Yang, Zichuan Liu, Lei Song +6

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) has traditionally focused on binary classification and often lacks the fine-grained categorization and explanatory reasoning required for trans…

cs.LG2025

On the Effect of Sampling Diversity in Scaling LLM Inference

Tianchun Wang, Zichuan Liu, Yuanzhou Chen +5

Large language model (LLM) scaling inference is key to unlocking greater performance, and leveraging diversity has proven an effective way to enhance it. Motivated by the observed…

cs.LG2024

Solving Hidden Monotone Variational Inequalities with Surrogate Losses

Ryan D'Orazio, Danilo Vucetic, Zichu Liu +3

Deep learning has proven to be effective in a wide variety of loss minimization problems. However, many applications of interest, like minimizing projected Bellman error and min-ma…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Humanizing the Machine: Proxy Attacks to Mislead LLM Detectors

Tianchun Wang, Yuanzhou Chen, Zichuan Liu +4

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the field of text generation, producing outputs that closely mimic human-like writing. Although academic and industria…

cs.AI2024

Position: Rethinking Post-Hoc Search-Based Neural Approaches for Solving Large-Scale Traveling Salesman Problems

Yifan Xia, Xianliang Yang, Zichuan Liu +3

Recent advancements in solving large-scale traveling salesman problems (TSP) utilize the heatmap-guided Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) paradigm, where machine learning (ML) models…

cs.MA2024★ 1 cited

Knowing What Not to Do: Leverage Language Model Insights for Action Space Pruning in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Zhihao Liu, Xianliang Yang, Zichuan Liu +7

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is employed to develop autonomous agents that can learn to adopt cooperative or competitive strategies within complex environments. Howeve…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

TimeX++: Learning Time-Series Explanations with Information Bottleneck

Zichuan Liu, Tianchun Wang, Jimeng Shi +7

Explaining deep learning models operating on time series data is crucial in various applications of interest which require interpretable and transparent insights from time series s…

cs.LG2024

Higher Replay Ratio Empowers Sample-Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Linjie Xu, Zichuan Liu, Alexander Dockhorn +4

One of the notorious issues for Reinforcement Learning (RL) is poor sample efficiency. Compared to single agent RL, the sample efficiency for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MA…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Protecting Your LLMs with Information Bottleneck

Zichuan Liu, Zefan Wang, Linjie Xu +6

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the field of natural language processing, yet they might be attacked to produce harmful content. Despite efforts to et…

cs.LG2024

Explaining Time Series via Contrastive and Locally Sparse Perturbations

Zichuan Liu, Yingying Zhang, Tianchun Wang +8

Explaining multivariate time series is a compound challenge, as it requires identifying important locations in the time series and matching complex temporal patterns. Although prev…

cs.SE2023★ 87 cited

RCAgent: Cloud Root Cause Analysis by Autonomous Agents with Tool-Augmented Large Language Models

Zefan Wang, Zichuan Liu, Yingying Zhang +6

Large language model (LLM) applications in cloud root cause analysis (RCA) have been actively explored recently. However, current methods are still reliant on manual workflow setti…

cs.MA2023★ 2 cited

Boosting Value Decomposition via Unit-Wise Attentive State Representation for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Qingpeng Zhao, Yuanyang Zhu, Zichuan Liu +2

In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), the environmental stochasticity and uncertainties will increase exponentially when the number of agents increases, which p…

cs.MA2023

NQ: Neural Attention Additive Model for Interpretable Multi-Agent Q-Learning

Zichuan Liu, Yuanyang Zhu, Chunlin Chen

Value decomposition is widely used in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, however, its implicit credit assignment mechanism is not yet fully understood due to black-box…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

MIXRTs: Toward Interpretable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Mixing Recurrent Soft Decision Trees

Zichuan Liu, Yuanyang Zhu, Zhi Wang +2

While achieving tremendous success in various fields, existing multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with a black-box neural network makes decisions in an opaque manner that hi…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Multi View Spatial-Temporal Model for Travel Time Estimation

ZiChuan Liu, Zhaoyang Wu, Meng Wang +1

Taxi arrival time prediction is essential for building intelligent transportation systems. Traditional prediction methods mainly rely on extracting features from traffic maps, whic…

cs.LG2021★ 34 cited

Spatial-temporal Conv-sequence Learning with Accident Encoding for Traffic Flow Prediction

Zichuan Liu, Rui Zhang, Chen Wang +2

In an intelligent transportation system, the key problem of traffic forecasting is how to extract periodic temporal dependencies and complex spatial correlations. Current state-of-…