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Feedforward Neural Networks for Caching: Enough or Too Much?

Networking and Internet Architecture 2018-10-17 v1

Abstract

We propose a caching policy that uses a feedforward neural network (FNN) to predict content popularity. Our scheme outperforms popular eviction policies like LRU or ARC, but also a new policy relying on the more complex recurrent neural networks. At the same time, replacing the FNN predictor with a naive linear estimator does not degrade caching performance significantly, questioning then the role of neural networks for these applications.

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@article{arxiv.1810.06930,
  title  = {Feedforward Neural Networks for Caching: Enough or Too Much?},
  author = {Vladyslav Fedchenko and Giovanni Neglia and Bruno Ribeiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06930},
  year   = {2018}
}
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