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Record W4321780066 · doi:10.1109/access.2023.3248652

Toward a Superintelligent Action Recommender for Network Operation Centers Using Reinforcement Learning

2023· article· en· W4321780066 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Access · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques
Canadian institutionsCiena (Canada)University of Ottawa
FundersMitacs
KeywordsComputer scienceReinforcement learningAutomationAction (physics)Artificial intelligenceRecommender systemHuman–computer interactionMachine learningEngineering

Abstract

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Today’s Network Operation Centres (NOC) consist of teams of network professionals responsible for monitoring and taking actions for their network’s health. Most of these NOC actions are relatively complex and executed manually; only the simplest tasks can be automated with rules-based software. But today’s networks are getting larger and more complex. Therefore, deciding what action to take in the face of non-trivial problems has essentially become an art that depends on collective human intelligence of NOC technicians, specialized support teams organized by technology domains, and vendors’ technical support. This model is getting increasingly expensive and inefficient, and the automation of all or at least some NOC tasks is now considered a desirable step towards autonomous and self-healing networks. In this article, we investigate whether an autonomous NOC can achieve superintelligence; i.e., it can recommend or take actions that lead to better results than those achieved by the collective human intelligence, in this case rules designed by human experts. Our investigation is inspired by the superintelligence achieved in computer games recently. Specifically, we build an Action Recommendation Engine based on Reinforcement Learning, a type of Artificial Intelligence method, and we train it with expert rules and lets it explore actions by itself. We then show that it can learn new and more efficient strategies that outperform expert rules designed by humans. This can be used in face of network problems to either quickly recommend actions to NOC technicians or autonomously take actions for fast recovery.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.951
Threshold uncertainty score0.511

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.209
GPT teacher head0.403
Teacher spread0.194 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it