FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
Wed 8 Jul 2026 15:10 - 15:30 at MB 5.215 - Anomaly and failure 1 Chair(s): Mohamed Aymen Saied

Contemporary microservice systems continue to grow in scale and complexity, leading to increasingly frequent and costly failures. While recent LLM-based auto-remediation approaches have emerged, they primarily translate textual instructions into executable Ansible playbooks and rely on expert-crafted prompts, lacking runtime knowledge guidance and depending on large-scale general-purpose LLMs, which limits their accuracy and efficiency. We introduce \textit{End-to-End Microservice Remediation} (E2E-MR), a new task that requires directly generating executable playbooks from diagnosis reports to autonomously restore faulty systems. To enable rigorous evaluation, we build \textit{MicroRemed}, a benchmark that automates microservice deployment, failure injection, playbook execution, and post-repair verification. We further propose \textit{E2E-REME}, an end-to-end auto-remediation model trained via experience-simulation reinforcement fine-tuning. Experiments on public and industrial microservice platforms, compared with nine representative LLMs, show that E2E-REME achieves superior accuracy and efficiency.

Wed 8 Jul

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14:00 - 15:30
Anomaly and failure 1Journal-First Paper / Industry Papers / Research Papers at MB 5.215
Chair(s): Mohamed Aymen Saied Concordia University
14:00
20m
Talk
EventADL: Open-Box Anomaly Detection and Localization Framework for Events in Cloud-Based Service Systems
Research Papers
Luan Pham University of New South Wales, Australia, Victor Nicolet Amazon, Joey Dodds Amazon, Inc., Hui Guan Amazon Web Services, USA, Daniel Kroening Amazon
Pre-print
14:20
20m
Talk
A Comprehensive Study of Machine Learning Techniques for Log-Based Anomaly Detection
Journal-First Paper
Shan Ali University of Ottawa, Chaima Boufaied University of Calgary, Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg, Paula Branco University of Ottawa, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
14:40
10m
Talk
From Load Tests to Live Streams: Graph Embedding-Based Anomaly Detection in Microservice Architectures
Industry Papers
Srinidhi Madabhushi Amazon Prime Video, Pranesh Vyas Amazon Prime Video, Swathi Vaidyanathan Amazon Prime Video, Mayur Premkumar Kurup Amazon.com, Elliott Nash Amazon Prime Video, Yegor Silyutin Amazon Prime Video
14:50
20m
Talk
Holmes: Multimodal Agentic Diagnosis for Mixed-Language Mobile Crashes at Industrial Scale
Industry Papers
Jia Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wenyuan Ma Tencent Inc., Ting Peng Tencent Inc., Haibing Zheng Tencent, Yuetang Deng Tencent
15:10
20m
Talk
E2E-REME: Towards End-to-End Microservices Auto-Remediation via Experience-Simulation Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
Industry Papers
Lingzhe Zhang Peking University, China, Yunpeng Zhai Alibaba Group, Tong Jia Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Beijing, China, Minghua He Peking University, Chiming Duan Peking University, Zhaoyang Liu Alibaba Group, Bolin Ding Alibaba Group, Ying Li School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China