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Evidence-Grounded Decision Support for IT Incident Triage with Local Language Models

Author(s) Dhananjay Ojha
Country India
Abstract IT incident triage involves determining if there is enough evidence for a safe fix, if details are missing and more information is needed, or if conflicting information is present and escalation is required. This research investigates the capabilities of the local language model, Ollama 3.2 3B, to perform this task using three methods: a prompt only baseline (G1), retrieval augmented generation (G2), and a structured output method (G3).
The development of a judgment only generation module means an easy to implement baseline. Using a 50 case development set, we got agreement rates of 72% for G1, 64% for G2, and 66% for G3. On a 30 case challenge set (G4), G1 got agreement of 76.7% vs. 40% and 50% for G2 and G3 respectively. The greatest variation was seen in detecting conflicts. The baseline G1 caught 9 out of 10 conflicts, while the other methods failed to catch any. We found G3 reliably enforced the structural schemas, but the relationships it identified were not sufficient to draw conflicts.
A judge-only human review of 90 outputs showed excellent consensus on judgment, truth and safety of the action suggested by the generated text. Human judges rated all outputs safe and judged them as extremely useful. Because of dataset and author conservatism, we believe enforcing a structural schema does not ensure correct relationships. Results reflect the performance in the environments tested.
Keywords incident management; retrieval-augmented generation; local language models; evidence grounding; decision support; synthetic evaluation
Field Computer > Artificial Intelligence / Simulation / Virtual Reality
Published In Volume 8, Issue 5, September-October 2026
Published On 2026-10-19
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i05.90084

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