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Towards the Localization of Multi-Root-Cause Failures in Microservice Systems: An Active Intervention Framework

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Authors

Yazhuo Gao, Lin Yang, Lianxiao Meng, Ran Zhu, Yining Cao

Venue / Year

FSE 2026

Topics

Debugging / Fault Localization / Diagnosis / Repair; Cloud / Distributed / Service Computing; AI / LLM for SE

Research directions

Latency Diagnosis & Evidence

Abstract / Summary

This work frames distributed diagnosis as active intervention rather than passive graph propagation, using hierarchical reinforcement learning and an intervention-enhanced graph attention network for multi-root-cause microservice failures. It broadens the latency-diagnosis watch beyond single-cause ranking.

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