VAST Challenge


Session chair:TBA

Room:Essex center

Time:Monday, Nov 9 @ 13:00 - 16:30 (US/Eastern)

Organizers:Joseph Cottam,Steven Gomez,Curtis Larimer

Website:https://vast-challenge.github.io/2026/

Papers

AgentAudit: Visual Analytics for Tracing Behavioral Escalation in Multi-Agent Systems

Authors: Luis Sante, Dany Mauro Diaz Espino, Leighton Estrada-Rayme, Juanpablo Heredia, Joel Perca, Felipe Moreno-Vera, João Rulff, Jorge Poco

Agentic Anomaly Visual Analytics

Authors: Muqi Zhang, Chunpo Wu, Furkan Erdi, Manuel Schmidt, Daniel A Keim, Julius Rauscher

AmpliFY: Coordinated Visual Analytics for Investigating Multi-Agent Communications

Authors: HOCK LIN TAI

BUAA-Yang-MC2

Authors: shibo yang

CHS-Parasar-MC1

Authors: Nilesh Parasar

EmbargoLens: Tracing Disclosure Pathways in Multi-Agent Communications through Temporal, Behavioral, and Message-Level Visual Analysis

Authors: Ruqi Sun, Jiaping Li, Qianxi Xu, Yuxin Ma

Forensic Intelligence and Network Oversight

Authors: Juan Leibniz Aquino Espinoza, Josue Arbulu Pastor, Ricardo Amiel Acuña Villogas, Cesar Eduardo Pajuelo Reyes, Germain Garcia-Zanabria

HCMUS-Nguyen-MC1

Authors: Ngan V.T. Nguyen, My Tran, An Nguyen

HCMUS-Nguyen-MC2

Authors: Ngan V.T. Nguyen, My Tran, An Nguyen

HopViz: Tracing Anomalous Behaviour Hop-By-Hop Through a Tangled Multi-Agent System

Authors: Joel Perca, Luis Sante, Dany Mauro Diaz Espino, Leighton Estrada-Rayme, Juanpablo Heredia, Felipe Moreno-Vera, João Rulff, Jorge Poco

LeakAnalysis: Investigation of the Embargo Breach

Authors: Dmytro Murza, Michael Adewole, Julia Maria Görlach, Diana Gaus, Daniel A Keim, Manuel Schmidt, Julius Rauscher

Mission Control: Forensic Visual Analytics for AI-Agent Embargo Breach Investigation

Authors: Anna Baynes, Sheri Snehith

Multi-Agent Embargo Breach: A Visualization Dashboard

Authors: Kerem Ilgaz, Kanta Ito, Zainab Hussaini, Julius Rauscher, Manuel Schmidt, Daniel A Keim

Organelles: Visual Analytics for Governing Federated Multi-Agent Organizations

Authors: Andralyn Yao, Sizheng Cailean Chen, Aaron Wang, Justin Li, Jasmine Tang, Nabin Khanal, Qi Yang, Hannah Yanhua Zong, Jieqiong Zhao, Yingjie Victor Chen, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian

Reconstructing an Embargo Breach in a Multi-Agent Corporate Communications System Using Visual Analytics

Authors: Lauma Ernestsone, Angelos Chatzimparmpas

Ripples: Exploring Communication Patterns in Organizational Multi-Agent Systems

Authors: Nabin Khanal, Qi Yang, Sizheng Cailean Chen, Jasmine Tang, Andralyn Yao, Justin Li, Zhancheng Su, Aaron Wang, Hannah Yanhua Zong, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Yingjie Victor Chen, Jieqiong Zhao

Submission for VAST MC2 2026 - TUM

Authors: Advitya Chopra, Jacob Miller, Oscar Edgardo Navarro Banderas

Targeted and Traceable Investigation of Multi-Agent LLM Dialogue via Semantic Bundling of Knowledge Graphs

Authors: Zeyu Hua, Adam J Coscia, Alex Endert

TimeAperture: Density-Aware Visual Analytics for Comprehensive Characterization of Agentic Control Breakdown

Authors: You Li, Tongyu Wu, Xinhang Xie, Siming Chen

Tracing Agent-Mediated File-Source Posts with Visual Analytics

Authors: Feihan Chen, Wentao Song, Tao Yan

Tracing Recurring Agent Pathways: Evidence-Centered Visual Analytics for Intervention Design

Authors: Zhixuan Hu, Liduan Liu, Zhenghan Chen, Chunran Hu, Yuetong Guo, Junyan Liu, Jingqi Du

TrustStream: How Much Should We Trust AI Agents? Visual Analytics for Alignment Monitoring in Multi-Agent Systems

Authors: Aaron Wang, Justin Li, Sizheng Cailean Chen, Andralyn Yao, Nabin Khanal, Qi Yang, Jasmine Tang, Zhancheng Su, Jieqiong Zhao, Hannah Yanhua Zong, Zhenyu Cheryl Qian, Yingjie Victor Chen

TUM-Ilina-MC1

Authors: Daria Ilina, Jacob Miller

Visual Analytics for Multi-Agent Event Logs

Authors: Rients Dotinga, Angelos Chatzimparmpas

Zhejiang University of Science and Technology-Yanni Peng-MC2

Authors: Yanni Peng, Yi Zhang, Ye Fu, Qiuyu Wang