CAIN 2025
Sun 27 - Mon 28 April 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
co-located with ICSE 2025
Sun 27 Apr 2025 11:15 - 11:25 at 208 - Engineering AI systems with LLMs Chair(s): Justus Bogner

With advancements in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there has been an increasing need for tools that rely on Large Language Models (LLMs). As these models may produce undesired answers, there is a need to prevent such events, especially in enterprise environments. Even if models are trained on safe data, user inputs and even model behavior can be unpredictable, leading to problems like leakage of confidential data that could result in revenue loss. In this paper, we describe our experiences on developing tools for “guardrailing” LLMs. We describe how we started with a quick monolith implementation, and later transitioned to a microservices architecture. As results, we share our lessons learned throughout the process, and how the re-architecture to microservices led to runtime performance gains, easier maintenance and extensibility, and also allowed us to open source the main component of the solution, so anyone can contribute and use it.

Sun 27 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
Engineering AI systems with LLMsResearch and Experience Papers at 208
Chair(s): Justus Bogner Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
11:00
15m
Talk
Rule-Based Assessment of Reinforcement Learning Practices Using Large Language ModelsDistinguished paper Award Candidate
Research and Experience Papers
Evangelos Ntentos University of Vienna, Stephen John Warnett University of Vienna, Uwe Zdun University of Vienna
11:15
10m
Talk
Designing and implementing LLM guardrails components in production environments
Research and Experience Papers
11:25
15m
Talk
Themes of Building LLM-based Applications for Production: A Practitioner's View
Research and Experience Papers
Alina Mailach Leipzig University, Sebastian Simon Leipzig University, Johannes Dorn Leipzig University, Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University
Pre-print
11:40
15m
Talk
InsightAI: Root Cause Analysis in Large Hierarchical Log Files with Private Data Using Large Language Models
Research and Experience Papers
Maryam Ekhlasi Polytechnique Montreal, Anurag Prakash Ciena, Michel Dagenais Polytechnique Montréal, Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montreal
11:55
10m
Talk
Developing Multi-Agent LLM Applications through Continuous Human-LLM Co-Programming
Research and Experience Papers
Hui Song SINTEF Digital, Arda Goknil SINTEF Digital, Xiaojun Jiang Oslo University Hospital, Espen Melum Oslo University Hospital, Hyunwhan Joe Seoul National University, Caterina Gazzotti University of Modena, Valerio Frascolla Intel, Adela Nedisan Videsjorden SINTEF, Phu Nguyen SINTEF
12:05
25m
Other
Discussion
Research and Experience Papers