Collaborative AI Agents and Critics for Fault Detection and Cause Analysis in Network Telemetry

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 31 Mar 2026] Collaborative AI Agents and Critics for Fault Detection and Cause Analysis in Network Telemetry Syed Eqbal Alam, Zhan Shu We develop algorithms for collaborative control of AI agents and critics in a multi-actor, multi-critic federated multi-agent system. Each AI agent and critic has access to classical machine learning or generative AI foundation models. The AI agents and critics collaborate with a central server to complete multimodal tasks such as fault detection, severity, and cause analysis in a network telemetry system, text-to-image generation, video generation, healthcare diagnostics from medical images and patient records, etcetera. The AI agents complete their tasks and send them to AI critics for evaluation. The critics then send feedback to agents to improve their responses. Collaboratively, they minimize the overall cost to the system with no inter-agent or inter-critic communication. AI agents and critics keep their cost functions or derivatives of cost functions private. Using multi-time scale stochastic approximation techniques, we provide convergence guarantees on the time-average active states of AI agents and critics. The communication overhead is a little on the system, of the order of \mathcal{O}(m), for m modalities and is independent of the number of AI agents and critics. Finally, we present an example of fault detection, severity, and cause analysis in network telemetry and thorough evaluation to check the algorithm's efficacy. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) Cite as: arXiv:2604.00319 [cs.AI]   (or arXiv:2604.00319v1 [cs.AI] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.00319 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Syed Eqbal Alam [view email] [v1] Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:33:56 UTC (949 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.AI < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-04 Change to browse by: cs cs.MA References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)