Summary of One Train For Two Tasks: An Encrypted Traffic Classification Framework Using Supervised Contrastive Learning, by Haozhen Zhang et al.
One Train for Two Tasks: An Encrypted Traffic Classification Framework Using Supervised Contrastive Learning
by Haozhen Zhang, Xi Xiao, Le Yu, Qing Li, Zhen Ling, Ye Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 proposes a novel approach to encrypted traffic classification, addressing limitations in existing methods that neglect common characteristics between data samples. The authors introduce the Contrastive Learning Enhanced Temporal Fusion Encoder (CLE-TFE), which leverages supervised contrastive learning and graph data augmentation to capture fine-grained semantic-invariant characteristics. CLE-TFE simultaneously performs packet-level and flow-level classification tasks, achieving state-of-the-art results with significantly reduced computational overhead compared to pre-trained models like ET-BERT. This work has implications for network security and could inform future research in this area. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to classify encrypted internet traffic. It’s an important problem because we need to keep the internet safe from bad actors. The existing methods don’t work very well, so researchers came up with a new approach called CLE-TFE. This method combines two ideas: contrastive learning and graph data augmentation. It also does two tasks at once, which makes it more efficient. The results show that this method is the best one yet, and it uses less computer power than other methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Bert * Classification * Data augmentation * Encoder * Supervised
