MambaNetBurst: Direct Byte-level Network Traffic Classification without Tokenization or Pretraining

Gayan K. Kulatilleke, Siamak Layeghy, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh +1

We present MambaNetBurst, a compact tokenizer-free byte-level sequence classifier for network burst classification based on a Mamba-2 backbone. In contrast to most recent strong tr…