FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
Wed 8 Jul 2026 11:30 - 11:50 at MB 2.435 - Cloud Chair(s): Mariam El Mezouar

AI workloads incur frequent failures and incidents from the underlying infrastructure. The current incident management workflow follows a provider-centric paradigm, where users report incidents to the infrastructure provider who then conducts troubleshooting. Due to the large number of incidents and the manual nature of the troubleshooting process, the provider often takes several days to resolve an incident, resulting in operational delays and productivity loss.

To address these challenges, we present TSGuard, a user-centric multi-agent system that delivers immediate incident diagnosis to users who deploy the workloads. The core innovation of TSGuard is twofold: (1) constructing domain-specific knowledge bases by mining historical on-call experiences in the offline phase, and (2) mimicking human expert diagnosis via structured reasoning and iterative trial-and-error in the online phase. Evaluation using production incident records from public cloud A demonstrates that TSGuard significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, improving diagnostic accuracy by 19.8%. Furthermore, TSGuard reduces the average verification time by 63.4% compared to sequential benchmark execution baseline.

Wed 8 Jul

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10:30 - 12:30
10:30
20m
Talk
Aloha: Localizing Batch Failures in Large-scale Cloud Systems via Contrast Analysis and Human-in-the-Loop Agent
Industry Papers
Shenglin Zhang Nankai University, Yujia Wu Nankai University, Jinghuan Ren Nankai University, College of Software, Yongqian Sun Nankai University, Wenwei Gu Nankai University, Chaoyun Zhang Microsoft, Liqun Li Microsoft Research, Qingwei Lin Microsoft, Dongmei Zhang Microsoft, Saravanakumar Rajmohan Microsoft 365, Chetan Bansal Microsoft Research, Minghua Ma Microsoft
10:50
20m
Talk
Attention Enhanced Entity Recommendation for Intelligent Monitoring in Cloud Systems
Industry Papers
Fiza Husain Independent, Anson Bastos Microsoft, Anjaly Parayil Microsoft, Ayush Choure Independent, Chetan Bansal Microsoft Research, Rujia Wang Microsoft, Saravanakumar Rajmohan Microsoft 365
11:10
20m
Talk
An Agentic Framework for Triaging Incidents in Production Cloud Infrastructure
Industry Papers
Yuhan Yao Microsoft, Yuxuan Jiang University of Michigan Ann-Arbor, Minghua Ma Microsoft, Madhura Vaidya Microsoft, Jieren Deng Microsoft, Yigong Hu Boston University, Chetan Bansal Microsoft Research, Ze Li Microsoft Azure, Murali Chintalapati Microsoft Azure
11:30
20m
Talk
TSGuard: Automated User-Centric Incident Diagnosis for AI Workloads in the Cloud
Research Papers
Yitao Yang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yangtao Deng The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yifan Xiong Microsoft Research, Baochun Li University of Toronto, Hong Xu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peng Cheng Microsoft Research Asia
Pre-print
11:50
20m
Talk
Exploring the impact of cloud computing on software architecture for sustainability: A practitioners' perspective
Journal-First Paper
Sahar Ahmadisakha University of Groningen, Vasilios Andrikopoulos University of Groningen
12:10
20m
Talk
AccessRefinery: Fast Mining Concise Access Control Intents on Public Cloud
Research Papers
Ning Kang Xi'an Jiaotong University, Peng Zhang Xi'an Jiaotong University, Jianyuan Zhang Xi'an Jiaotong University, Hao Li Xi'an Jiaotong University, Dan Wang Xi'an Jiaotong University, Zhenrong Gu Xi'an Jiaotong University, Weibo Lin Huawei Cloud, Shibiao Jiang Huawei Cloud, Zhu He Huawei Cloud, Xu Du Huawei Cloud, Longfei Chen Huawei Cloud, Jun Li Huawei, Xiaohong Guan Xi'an Jiaotong University
DOI Pre-print