Disentangling Multi-View Scanning in Mamba for Network Traffic Anomaly Detection

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Authors: Xinglin Lian, Chengtai Cao, Ting Zhong, Fan Zhou
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Abstract

Network Traffic Anomaly Detection (NTAD) is a critical task in cybersecurity, yet timely and accurate anomaly detection remains challenging. Mamba has emerged as a particularly promising backbone for NTAD due to its linear-time complexity for long-sequence modeling. It further incorporates a dedicated multi-view scanning mechanism to enhance detection precision through complementary contextual cues. However, we identify a previously overlooked structural deficiency in multi-view Mamba scanning for NTAD: redundancy accumulation. Specifically, distinct scanning branches capture substantial view-invariant information, which is repeatedly amplified during multi-view fusion; conversely, view-specific information is diluted or even suppressed, leading to representation homogenization and multi-view degradation. To address this problem, we propose DisenMamba, a novel disentangled multi-view Mamba framework. DisenMamba reformulates multi-view scanning as a two-stage disentangle-then-fuse process that explicitly separates view-invariant and view-specific components prior to fusion. This design prevents the invariant information accumulation while preserving complementary multi-view cues, yielding more discriminative representations for subtle traffic anomalies. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of~\method, establishing a new disentangled multi-view Mamba paradigm. Code is available at https://github.com/ikun0124/DisenMamba.

Publication details

Journal / source
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2
Publisher
ACM
Pages
2991–3002
Publication date
6 August 2026