Summary of Merlot: a Distilled Llm-based Mixture-of-experts Framework For Scalable Encrypted Traffic Classification, by Yuxuan Chen et al.
MERLOT: A Distilled LLM-based Mixture-of-Experts Framework for Scalable Encrypted Traffic Classification
by Yuxuan Chen, Rongpeng Li, Zhifeng Zhao, Honggang Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces MERLOT, a novel approach to optimize large language models for encrypted traffic classification. By applying model distillation techniques, compact models are derived from GPT-2-base while maintaining high accuracy and reducing computational costs. The refined models serve as specialized experts in a mixture-of-expert (MoE) architecture, dynamically assigned via a gating network. Unlike generation-based methods, MERLOT directly classifies encrypted traffic using contextual feature embedding as input. The proposed approach demonstrates superior or competitive performance on 10 datasets while significantly reducing resource demands, highlighting its effectiveness and robustness. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper presents a new way to improve language models for identifying types of internet traffic. By making the model smaller and more efficient, it can still accurately classify encrypted traffic. The approach uses a special type of architecture that assigns different tasks to different parts of the model. This method is better than others because it doesn’t try to generate fake data like some other methods do. Instead, it directly looks at the characteristics of the internet traffic to make its decisions. The results show that this method performs well on 10 different datasets and uses fewer resources, making it a useful tool for people who need to classify large amounts of internet traffic. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Distillation » Embedding » Gpt
