Summary of Netflowgen: Leveraging Generative Pre-training For Network Traffic Dynamics, by Jiawei Zhou et al.
NetFlowGen: Leveraging Generative Pre-training for Network Traffic Dynamics
by Jiawei Zhou, Woojeong Kim, Zhiying Xu, Alexander M. Rush, Minlan Yu
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A machine learning approach is proposed to efficiently model network traffic dynamics, enabling automated systems to monitor and analyze networking behaviors. The method, called NetFlowGen, aims to pre-train a general-purpose model using NetFlow records and fine-tune it for specific downstream tasks with minimal labeled data. This framework addresses challenges such as unifying network feature representations, learning from large unlabeled traffic data volumes, and testing on real-world tasks like DDoS attack detection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Network traffic dynamics can be accurately modeled using machine learning approaches, which helps to monitor and analyze networking behaviors. However, current methods are limited by the need for task-specific models trained from scratch. This leads to inefficiencies in model development and deployment. To tackle these challenges, a large-scale self-supervised learning approach is used on unlabeled data. The proposed NetFlowGen framework pre-trains a general-purpose machine learning model using only traffic data from NetFlow records, which can then be fine-tuned for specific downstream tasks with minimal labeled data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Self supervised
