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An Industrial Study on Predicting Crash Report Log 
\nTypes Using Large Language Models

2023· dissertation· en· W7029356603 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSpectrum Research Repository (Concordia University) · 2023
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware System Performance and Reliability
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMitacsConcordia University
KeywordsCrashArtificial neural networkSoftwareClassifier (UML)Feature (linguistics)Feature engineeringRelevance (law)Process (computing)
DOInot available

Abstract

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Software crashes and failures take a fair amount of effort and time to resolve. Software developers 
\nuse information submitted in crash reports (CRs) to conduct root cause analysis of faults. The 
\nproblem is that CRs often lack all the information required. Automatic prediction of CR fields can 
\ntherefore reduce the crash resolution process time. In this thesis, we use CR headings and 
\ndescriptions to predict the type of log files that should be attached to a CR. Our approach is to use 
\nmultilabel learning algorithms to train a machine learning model using a dataset from Ericsson’s 
\nCR database to predict the type of log files based on CR headings and descriptions. We use three 
\ndifferent pre-trained language models Bert, Telecom Bert, and Word2Vector to extract feature 
\nvectors from CR headings and descriptions and then feed these vectors to three different multilabel 
\nlearning algorithms, namely Binary Relevance (BR), Classifier Chain (CC), and Neural Network 
\n(NN). Then, we compare the performance of different feature sets. We found that the use of
\nheadings alone with pre-trained language models Bert and Telecom Bert results in the best average 
\nAUC (0.70). The use of descriptions and headings and descriptions together as features resulted in 
\nan average AUC varying from 0.65 to 0.70. In general, the algorithms showed no significant 
\ndifference in their performances, but the choice of features impacts the performance. Also, the 
\nperformance of predicting each type of log is influenced by the use of keywords in headings and 
\ndescriptions that describe these files. We found that log types with a clear definition such as Key 
\nPerformance Indicators (KPI) Logs, Post-mortem Dumps (PMD), and execution traces can be 
\npredicted with higher accuracy.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.246
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.062
GPT teacher head0.332
Teacher spread0.271 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it