arxivcs.AIcs.CL2026-07-14
Tracing Agentic Failure from the Flow of Success
Samuel Yeh, Yiwen Zhu, Shaleen Deep, Sharon Li
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…