Title
Multi-task Feature Selection based Anomaly Detection.
Abstract
Network anomaly detection is still a vibrant research area. As the fast growth of network bandwidth and the tremendous traffic on the network, there arises an extremely challengeable question: How to efficiently and accurately detect the anomaly on multiple traffic? In multi-task learning, the traffic consisting of flows at different time periods is considered as a task. Multiple tasks at different time periods performed simultaneously to detect anomalies. In this paper, we apply the multi-task feature selection in network anomaly detection area which provides a powerful method to gather information from multiple traffic and detect anomalies on it simultaneously. In particular, the multi-task feature selection includes the well-known l1-norm based feature selection as a special case given only one task. Moreover, we show that the multi-task feature selection is more accurate by utilizing more information simultaneously than the l1-norm based method. At the evaluation stage, we preprocess the raw data trace from trans-Pacific backbone link between Japan and the United States, label with anomaly communities, and generate a 248-feature dataset. We show empirically that the multi-task feature selection outperforms independent l1-norm based feature selection on real traffic dataset.
Year
Venue
Field
2014
CoRR
Anomaly detection,Data mining,Feature selection,Pattern recognition,Feature (computer vision),Raw data,Bandwidth (signal processing),Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Mathematics,Special case
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1403.4017
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Longqi Yang102.70
Yibing Wang26219.79
ZhiSong Pan37320.41
GuYu Hu43415.21