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Where FactsGo Missing: A LayerwiseTaxonomy and Per-Layer Attribution of Information Omissionin Air-Gapped LLM Agent Pipelines

Santhiya Rajan

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Published 2026-07-24 · First seen 2026-07-27

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Air-gapped and on-premises deployments in regulated settings (clinical FHIR services, legal review, sovereign infrastructure) cannot call frontier APIs; they run quantized 4-8B models via llama.cpp or vLLM behind tool servers. The dominant reliability failure is omission: the silent absence of a decision-critical fact, such as an agent reading 20 of 400 records and reporting "no anomalies." We argue omission is a pipeline phenomenon, not a model phenomenon, and make four contributions. First, a nine-layer taxonomy (L0-L8) locating every omission mechanism from ingestion through the agent loop. Second, an attribution methodology separating deterministic layers (L0-L3) from behavioral layers (L4-L8) via controlled ablation and logit decomposition, quantifying each with an omission waterfall. Third, an open cross-architecture harness comparing sliding-window-hybrid, full-attention, and SSM-hybrid models across engines and frameworks. Fourth, a runtime-detection framework for air-gapped settings where you own the logits. Results from a 75,476-trial sweep across five models and two engines show a pooled omission rate of 0.62; 68% originates in deterministic middleware (L0-L3), relocating where operators should intervene. Server-side profile factors (weight quantization, KV-cache type, RoPE scaling) were fixed and left for future work.

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@article{rajan2026where,
  title = {Where FactsGo Missing: A LayerwiseTaxonomy and Per-Layer Attribution of Information Omissionin Air-Gapped LLM Agent Pipelines},
  author = {Santhiya Rajan},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Air-gapped and on-premises deployments in regulated settings (clinical FHIR services, legal review, sovereign infrastructure) cannot call frontier APIs; they run quantized 4-8B models via llama.cpp or vLLM behind tool servers. The dominant reliability failure is omission: the silent absence of a decision-critical fact, such as an agent reading 20 of 400 records and reporting "no anomalies." We argue omission is a pipeline phenomenon, not a model phenomenon, and make four contributions. First, a },
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22448},
  keywords = {cs.MA},
  eprint = {2607.22448},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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