What a Pooled Leaderboard Does Not Say: Auditing the Scope and Provenance of Method Comparisons in Microservice RCA Benchmarks

arXiv:2606.29159 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-06-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-28

Updated: 2026-10-13

Terminology

• Benchmark — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Exchangeability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Regret — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• AIOpsLab: A Holistic Framework to Evaluate AI Agents for Enabling Autonomous Clouds
• The Benchmark Lottery
• ITBench: Evaluating AI Agents across Diverse Real-World IT Automation Tasks
• Why Do AI Agents Systematically Fail at Cloud Root Cause Analysis?
• Cloud-OpsBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Agentic Root Cause Analysis in Cloud Systems
• LEMMA-RCA: A Large Multi-modal Multi-domain Dataset for Root Cause Analysis

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