NetMamba

Efficient Network Traffic Classification via Pre-training Unidirectional Mamba

Tongze Wang, Xiaohui Xie, Wenduo Wang, Chuyi Wang, Youjian Zhao, Yong Cui

ICNP 2024 (arXiv paper)

Overview

Updates

[2026-04-05] We have released the source code for our journal paper NetMamba+. Click here and try the latest version.

Environment Setup

• Create python environment
  • conda create -n NetMamba python=3.10.13
  • conda activate NetMamba
• Install PyTorch 2.1.1+cu121 (we conduct experiments on this version)
  • pip install torch==2.1.1 torchvision==0.16.1 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121
• Install Mamba 1.1.1
  • cd mamba-1p1p1
  • pip install -e .
• Install other dependent libraries
  • pip install -r requirements.txt

Data Preparation

Download our processed datasets

For simplicity, you are welcome to download our processed datasets on which our experiments are conducted from google drive.

Each dataset is organized into the following structure:

.
|-- train
| |-- Category 1
| | |-- Sample 1
| | |-- Sample 2
| | |-- ...
| | `-- Sample M
| |-- Category 2
| |-- ...
| `-- Catergory N
|-- test
`-- valid

Process your own datasets

If you'd like to generate customized datasets, please refer to preprocessing scripts provided in dataset. Note that you need to change several file paths accordingly.

Run NetMamba

• Run pre-training:

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python src/pre-train.py \\
--batch_size 128 \\
--blr 1e-3 \\
--steps 150000 \\
--mask_ratio 0.9 \\
--data_path <your-dataset-dir>\\
--output_dir <your-output-dir>\\
--log_dir <your-output-dir>\\
--model net_mamba_pretrain \\
--no_amp

• Run fine-tuning (including evaluation)

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python src/fine-tune.py \\
--blr 2e-3 \\
--epochs 120 \\
--nb_classes <num-class>\\
--finetune <pretrain-checkpoint-path>\\
--data_path <your-dataset-dir>\\
--output_dir <your-output-dir>\\
--log_dir <your-output-dir>\\
--model net_mamba_classifier \\
--no_amp

Note that you should replace variable in the < > format with your actual values.

Checkpoint

The pre-trained checkpoint of NetMamba is available for download on our huggingface repo. Feel free to access it at your convenience. If you require any other type of checkpoints, please contact us via email (wangtz23@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn).

Citation

@inproceedings{wang2024netmamba,
title={Netmamba: Efficient network traffic classification via pre-training unidirectional mamba},
author={Wang, Tongze and Xie, Xiaohui and Wang, Wenduo and Wang, Chuyi and Zhao, Youjian and Cui, Yong},
booktitle={2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)},
pages={1--11},
year={2024},
organization={IEEE}
}