Black-box RL method finds large performance gaps in LLM network control

LENS uses reinforcement learning to discover adversarial inputs that cause LLM-based traffic engineering and GPU allocation systems to fail significantly, even when those systems report high average accuracy.

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Mahdi Alizadeh · Pooria Namyar · Arvin Ghavidel · Ramesh Govindan

University of Southern California · Microsoft Research

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Alizadeh et al.

The authors developed LENS, a reinforcement learning (RL)-based framework that treats adversarial input generation as an RL problem.

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