MILD: Multi-Intent Learning and Disambiguation for Proactive Failure Prediction in Intent-based Networking

In multi-intent intent-based networks, a single fault can trigger co-drift where multiple intents exhibit symptomatic KPI degradation, creating ambiguity about the true root-cause intent. We present MILD, a proactive framework that reformulates intent assurance from reactive drift detection to fixed-horizon failure prediction with intent-level disambiguation. MILD uses a teacher-augmented Mixture-of-Experts where a gated disambiguation module identifies the root-cause intent while per-intent heads output calibrated risk scores. On a benchmark with non-linear failures and co-drifts, MILD provides 3.8%–92.5% longer remediation lead time and improves intent-level root-cause disambiguation accuracy by 9.4%–45.8% over baselines. MILD also provides per-alert KPI explanations, enabling actionable diagnosis.