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Root-Cause Attribution Is a Search Problem: Continual Search for Long-Horizon Agent Failures

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 11, 2026 · UTC

The increasing deployment of AI agents in long-horizon tasks yields massive execution logs. Diagnosing failures within these records is crucial for reliability, as it transforms outcome-level signals into actionable interventions. The sheer scale of the data renders human review impractical, driving the need for automated root-cause attribution (RCA). However, automated RCA methods using LLMs suffer from low diagnostic accuracy, especially as execution traces grow larger. They struggle because relevant information is often sparse, distributed across distant actions, and disconnected from the v

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