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27 papers

cs.CL2026

Playing social deduction games with reinforcement fine-tuned large language models

Lingzhe Zhang, Yunpeng Zhai, Tong Jia +7

Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) is increasingly used in applications where large language models (LLMs) interact with humans and other agents. Here we use social deduction games to…

cs.SE2026

Bifrost: Empowering Pretrained Language Model with Fallibility Representation for Log-Based Fault Diagnosis

Minghua He, Tong Jia, Lingzhe Zhang +9

Log-based fault diagnosis is crucial for runtime debugging and maintenance. Existing fault diagnosis methods use language models pre-trained on natural language (PLMs) for log repr…

cs.CE2026

From Feedback Loops to Policy Updates: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for LLM-Based Alpha Factor Discovery

Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Yunpeng Zhai +5

Modern quantitative trading increasingly relies on systematic models to extract predictive signals from large-scale financial data, where alpha factor discovery plays a central rol…

cs.SE2026

Towards Robust LLM Post-Training: Automatic Failure Management for Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Yunpeng Zhai +6

Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) has become a core paradigm for post-training large language models, yet its training process remains highly fragile. Existing efforts mainly improve…

cs.SE2026

E2E-REME: Towards End-to-End Microservices Auto-Remediation via Experience-Simulation Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

Lingzhe Zhang, Yunpeng Zhai, Tong Jia +5

Contemporary microservice systems continue to grow in scale and complexity, leading to increasingly frequent and costly failures. While recent LLM-based auto-remediation approaches…

cs.SE2026

Efficient Failure Management for Multi-Agent Systems with Reasoning Trace Representation

Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Mingyu Wang +9

Large Language Models (LLM)-based Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) have emerged as a new paradigm in software system design, increasingly demonstrating strong reasoning and collaboration…

cs.SE2026

RuntimeSlicer: Towards Generalizable Unified Runtime State Representation for Failure Management

Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Weijie Hong +9

Modern software systems operate at unprecedented scale and complexity, where effective failure management is critical yet increasingly challenging. Metrics, traces, and logs provid…

cs.SE2026★ 2 cited

Hypothesize-Then-Verify: Speculative Root Cause Analysis for Microservices with Pathwise Parallelism

Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Yunpeng Zhai +5

Microservice systems have become the backbone of cloud-native enterprise applications due to their resource elasticity, loosely coupled architecture, and lightweight deployment. Ye…

cs.SE2026★ 2 cited

Agentic Memory Enhanced Recursive Reasoning for Root Cause Localization in Microservices

Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Yunpeng Zhai +5

As contemporary microservice systems become increasingly popular and complex-often comprising hundreds or even thousands of fine-grained, interdependent subsystems-they are experie…

cs.SE2026

VarParser: Unleashing the Neglected Power of Variables for LLM-based Log Parsing

Jinrui Sun, Tong Jia, Minghua He +1

Logs serve as a primary source of information for engineers to diagnose failures in large-scale online service systems. Log parsing, which extracts structured events from massive u…

cs.SE2025

Generality Is Not Enough: Zero-Label Cross-System Log-Based Anomaly Detection via Knowledge-Level Collaboration

Xinlong Zhao, Tong Jia, Minghua He +1

Log-based anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring software system stability. However, the scarcity of labeled logs limits rapid deployment to new systems. Cross-system transfer h…

cs.SE2025

ZeroLog: Zero-Label Generalizable Cross-System Log-based Anomaly Detection

Xinlong Zhao, Tong Jia, Minghua He +2

Log-based anomaly detection is an important task in ensuring the stability and reliability of software systems. One of the key problems in this task is the lack of labeled logs. Ex…

cs.CL2025

MicroRemed: Benchmarking LLMs in Microservices Remediation

Lingzhe Zhang, Yunpeng Zhai, Tong Jia +6

Large Language Models (LLMs) integrated with agent-based reasoning frameworks have recently shown strong potential for autonomous decision-making and system-level operations. One p…

cs.LG2025

FusionLog: Cross-System Log-based Anomaly Detection via Fusion of General and Proprietary Knowledge

Xinlong Zhao, Tong Jia, Minghua He +2

Log-based anomaly detection is critical for ensuring the stability and reliability of web systems. One of the key problems in this task is the lack of sufficient labeled logs, whic…

cs.LG2025

LogAction: Consistent Cross-system Anomaly Detection through Logs via Active Domain Adaptation

Chiming Duan, Minghua He, Pei Xiao +11

Log-based anomaly detection is a essential task for ensuring the reliability and performance of software systems. However, the performance of existing anomaly detection methods hea…

cs.SE2025

United We Stand: Towards End-to-End Log-based Fault Diagnosis via Interactive Multi-Task Learning

Minghua He, Chiming Duan, Pei Xiao +8

Log-based fault diagnosis is essential for maintaining software system availability. However, existing fault diagnosis methods are built using a task-independent manner, which fail…

cs.SE2025

Walk the Talk: Is Your Log-based Software Reliability Maintenance System Really Reliable?

Minghua He, Tong Jia, Chiming Duan +6

Log-based software reliability maintenance systems are crucial for sustaining stable customer experience. However, existing deep learning-based methods represent a black box for se…

cs.SE2025

Adaptive Root Cause Localization for Microservice Systems with Multi-Agent Recursion-of-Thought

Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Kangjin Wang +4

As contemporary microservice systems become increasingly popular and complex-often comprising hundreds or even thousands of fine-grained, interdependent subsystems-they are facing…

cs.SE2025

From Few-Label to Zero-Label: An Approach for Cross-System Log-Based Anomaly Detection with Meta-Learning

Xinlong Zhao, Tong Jia, Minghua He +3

Log anomaly detection plays a critical role in ensuring the stability and reliability of software systems. However, existing approaches rely on large amounts of labeled log data, w…

cs.SE2025

A Survey of AIOps in the Era of Large Language Models

Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Mengxi Jia +7

As large language models (LLMs) grow increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, their application to various Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) tasks has garnered sig…

cs.DB2025

LogDB: Multivariate Log-based Failure Diagnosis for Distributed Databases (Extended from MultiLog)

Lingzhe Zhang, Tong Jia, Mengxi Jia +1

Distributed databases, as the core infrastructure software for internet applications, play a critical role in modern cloud services. However, existing distributed databases frequen…

cs.SE2025★ 10 cited

AgentFM: Role-Aware Failure Management for Distributed Databases with LLM-Driven Multi-Agents

Lingzhe Zhang, Yunpeng Zhai, Tong Jia +3

Distributed databases are critical infrastructures for today's large-scale software systems, making effective failure management essential to ensure software availability. However,…

cs.SE2025★ 7 cited

ThinkFL: Self-Refining Failure Localization for Microservice Systems via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

Lingzhe Zhang, Yunpeng Zhai, Tong Jia +6

As modern microservice systems grow increasingly popular and complex-often consisting of hundreds or even thousands of fine-grained, interdependent components-they are becoming mor…

cs.SE2025

Enhancing Web Service Anomaly Detection via Fine-grained Multi-modal Association and Frequency Domain Analysis

Xixuan Yang, Xin Huang, Chiming Duan +4

Anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the stability and reliability of web service systems. Logs and metrics contain multiple information that can reflect the system's operatio…