ASE 2026
Mon 12 - Fri 16 October 2026 Munich, Germany

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 representation. However, system faults are reflected in the multi-level structure of system logs. PLMs pre-trained on natural language struggle to comprehensively capture multi-level fault information, failing to meet the requirements of fault diagnosis. We refer to this information as fallibility representations. To address this problem, we propose a novel log representation learning method, Bifrost. It draws inspiration from the log analysis experience of Site Reliability Engineers and meticulously designs strategies based on self-supervised contrastive learning to learn the fallibility representations of logs. Across three public systems and one industrial ML-as-a-Service system, the log representations produced by Bifrost outperform existing PLMs by average margins of 9.83% in F1 for anomaly detection, 18.28% in HR@k for root cause localization, and 20.88% in Macro-F1 for fault identification.

Wed 14 Oct

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14:00 - 16:00
Security and Other Non-Functional Properties: Reliability and Availability 3Research Papers / Journal First / Industry Showcase at Forum 15
14:00
15m
Talk
HERO: Hypothesis-Centered Root-Cause Analysis for Microservice Incidents
Research Papers
Jiewei Lyu Sun Yat-sen University, Junquan Yi Tencent, Shu Liang Tencent, Pengfei Chen Sun Yat-sen University, Long Pan Tencent
14:15
15m
Talk
Enhancing Trace-Based Root Cause Analysis for Microservice Systems via Code Change Understanding
Research Papers
Min Zhang Fudan University, Chenxi Zhang Xidian University, Senyu Xie Fudan University, Shihong Chen McDonald's, Lei Wu McDonald's China, Xin Peng Fudan University
14:30
15m
Talk
Bifrost: Empowering Pretrained Language Model with Fallibility Representation for Log-Based Fault Diagnosis
Research Papers
Minghua He Peking University, Tong Jia Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Beijing, China, Lingzhe Zhang Peking University, China, Chiming Duan Peking University, Xinlong Zhao Peking University, Leyi Pan Tsinghua University, Cheng Wang Alibaba Group, Kangjin Wang Alibaba Group, Yinghao Yu Alibaba Group, Liping Zhang Alibaba Group, Yifan Wu Peking University, Ying Li School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China
14:45
15m
Talk
LLM-Assisted Joint Ticket and Log Analysis for Incident Triage in Intelligent and Connected Vehicles
Industry Showcase
Ruowei Fu Nankai University, Shenglin Zhang Nankai University, Wenwei Gu Nankai University, Weiguo Li Huawei, Yongqian Sun Nankai University, Dan Pei Tsinghua University, China
15:00
15m
Talk
AlarmClaw: Context-Enriched Alarm Management with Category-/Severity-Aware Incident Graphs
Industry Showcase
Siyu Yu Peking University, Meizhen Li ByteDance, Jiacheng Yang ByteDance, Yifan Wu Peking University, Ning Wang Bytedance, Zhaoxing Chen Bytedance, Ming Liu Bytedance, Xinchi Ren ByteDance, Xincheng Ren ByteDance, Chan Li Bytedance, Tong Jia Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Beijing, China, Xiang Zhang Bytedance, Ying Li School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China
15:15
15m
Talk
Smart Brain: Semantic Anomaly Detection for Operational Time Series in Large Scale Service Systems
Research Papers
Hang Cui University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Computer Network Information Center at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zexin Wang Computer Network Information Center at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jingjing Li Computer Network Information Center at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Juncheng Hu Jilin University, Haotian Si Independent Researcher, Cenjie Hu Shenyang Institute of Automation at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Quan Zhou Computer Network Information Center at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yongchang Hu Huawei Technologies, Lei Han Huawei Technologies, Dan Pei Tsinghua University, China, Changhua Pei Computer Network Information Center at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Gaogang Xie Computer Network Information Center at Chinese Academy of Sciences
15:30
15m
Talk
KRCA: An Efficient Root Cause Analysis System in Hyper-scale Microservice Systems via Agentic AI
Industry Showcase
Jiamin Jiang Nankai University, Jingfei Feng Nankai University, Yu Luo Nankai University, Qingliang Zhang Nankai University, Yongqian Sun Nankai University, Wenwei Gu Nankai University, Shenglin Zhang Nankai University, Tianyu Cui Kuaishou Technology, Yao Wu Kuaishou Technology, Jielong Huang Kuaishou Technology, Nan Qi Kuaishou Technology, Dan Pei Tsinghua University, China
15:45
15m
Talk
Assessing the adoption of security policies by developers in terraform across different cloud providers
Journal First
Alexandre Verdet Polytechnique Montreal, Mohammad Hamdaqa Polytechnique Montreal, Leuson Da Silva Polytechnique Montreal, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal
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