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Machine learning has been applied to network traffic classification (TC) for over two decades. While early efforts used shallow models, the latter 2010s saw a shift toward complex neural networks, often reporting near-perfect accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kamil Jerabek , Jan Luxemburk , Richard Plny , Josef Koumar , Jaroslav Pesek , Karel Hynek

Modern neural networks have the capacity to overfit noisy labels frequently found in real-world datasets. Although great progress has been made, existing techniques are limited in providing theoretical guarantees for the performance of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Kaidi Cao , Jure Leskovec

This paper proposes to develop a network phenotyping mechanism based on network resource usage analysis and identify abnormal network traffic. The network phenotyping may use different metrics in the cyber physical system (CPS), including…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Minhui Zou , Chengliang Wang , Fangyu Li , WenZhan Song

The ability of learning from noisy labels is very useful in many visual recognition tasks, as a vast amount of data with noisy labels are relatively easy to obtain. Traditionally, the label noises have been treated as statistical outliers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Yuncheng Li , Jianchao Yang , Yale Song , Liangliang Cao , Jiebo Luo , Li-Jia Li

Most, if not all, modern deep learning systems restrict themselves to a single dataset for neural network training and inference. In this article, we are interested in systematic ways to join datasets that are made of similar purposes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Jake Zhao , Mingfeng Ou , Linji Xue , Yunkai Cui , Sai Wu , Gang Chen

In this work, we for the first time present a method for detecting label errors in image datasets with semantic segmentation, i.e., pixel-wise class labels. Annotation acquisition for semantic segmentation datasets is time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Matthias Rottmann , Marco Reese

Most studies on learning from noisy labels rely on unrealistic models of i.i.d. label noise, such as class-conditional transition matrices. More recent work on instance-dependent noise models are more realistic, but assume a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Glenn Dawson , Robi Polikar

In a setting where segmentation models have to be built for multiple datasets, each with its own corresponding label set, a straightforward way is to learn one model for every dataset and its labels. Alternatively, multi-task architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Deepa Anand , Bipul Das , Vyshnav Dangeti , Antony Jerald , Rakesh Mullick , Uday Patil , Pakhi Sharma , Prasad Sudhakar

Realistic network traffic simulation is critical for evaluating intrusion detection systems, stress-testing network protocols, and constructing high-fidelity environments for cybersecurity training. While attack traffic can often be layered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Kristen Moore , Diksha Goel , Cody James Christopher , Zhen Wang , Minjune Kim , Ahmed Ibrahim , Ahmad Mohsin , Seyit Camtepe

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) are an increasingly important tool for the prevention and mitigation of cyber attacks. A number of labelled synthetic datasets generated have been generated and made publicly available by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Siamak Layeghy , Marcus Gallagher , Marius Portmann

Network traffic classification has been widely studied to fundamentally advance network measurement and management. Machine Learning is one of the effective approaches for network traffic classification. Specifically, Deep Learning (DL) has…

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Labeled data are critical to modern machine learning applications, but obtaining labels can be expensive. To mitigate this cost, machine learning methods, such as transfer learning, semi-supervised learning and active learning, aim to be…

Transportation mode detection with personal devices has been investigated for over ten years due to its importance in monitoring ones' activities, understanding human mobility, and assisting traffic management. However, two main limitations…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yuren Zhou , Jin Wang , Peng Shi , Daniel Dahlmeier , Nils Tippenhauer , Erik Wilhelm

The adoption of modern encryption protocols such as TLS 1.3 has significantly challenged traditional network traffic classification (NTC) methods. As a consequence, researchers are increasingly turning to machine learning (ML) approaches to…

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Online continual learning, the process of training models on streaming data, has gained increasing attention in recent years. However, a critical aspect often overlooked is the label delay, where new data may not be labeled due to slow and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Botos Csaba , Wenxuan Zhang , Matthias Müller , Ser-Nam Lim , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Philip Torr , Adel Bibi

The last two decades witnessed tremendous advances in the Information and Communications Technologies. Beside improvements in computational power and storage capacity, communication networks carry nowadays an amount of data which was not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Martino Trevisan

As graph data grows increasingly complicate, training graph neural networks (GNNs) on large-scale datasets presents significant challenges, including computational resource constraints, data redundancy, and transmission inefficiencies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Liangliang Zhang , Haoran Bao , Yao Ma

The prevalence of noisy labels in real-world datasets poses a significant impediment to the effective deployment of deep learning models. While meta-learning strategies have emerged as a promising approach for addressing this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Mengyang Li

Data-driven analysis of complex networks has been in the focus of research for decades. An important area of research is to study how well real networks can be described with a small selection of metrics, furthermore how well network models…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Marcell Nagy , Roland Molontay

The performance of machine learning models relies heavily on the quality of input data, yet real-world applications often face significant data-related challenges. A common issue arises when curating training data or deploying models: two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Varun Babbar , Zhicheng Guo , Cynthia Rudin