Contrastive Learning and Correlation Clustering for Sequences of Network Telescope Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04733v1
• Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:15:37 GMT
• Title: Contrastive Learning and Correlation Clustering for Sequences of Network Telescope Data
• Abstract summary: This work investigates whether semantically meaningful pairwise relationships can be estimated by contrastive learning, without pretraining and without annotations.<n>We propose a transformer model that embeds minimally preprocessed sequences of network flow records and train it using contrastive learning.<n> Learned similarities are higher on average for sequences originating from the same source than for sequences originating from different sources, and this property generalizes to unseen sequences of unseen sources.
• Score: 42.40186787583839
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Understanding activities of Internet scanners is challenging; it often requires identifying relationships between sources, a task for which semantic annotations are scarce. This work investigates whether semantically meaningful pairwise relationships between sequences of network flow records can be estimated by contrastive learning, without pretraining and without annotations. To this end, we propose a transformer model that embeds minimally preprocessed sequences of network flow records and train it using contrastive learning. With the similarities obtained from this model, we state a correlation clustering problem and solve it locally. Experimentally, we show: Learned similarities are higher on average for sequences originating from the same source than for sequences originating from different sources, and this property generalizes to unseen sequences of unseen sources. Moreover, correlation clustering yields clusters consistent with scanner labels. The complete source code of the algorithms and for reproducing the experiments is publicly available.

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