Interactive, Visual Uncertainty Quantification

for Encrypted Network Traffic Situation Awareness

Harry X. Li, Allan Wollaber


Presented at VizSec21, Best Poster
   

Demo Video

As machine learning-based applications reach the hands of operators, the models often struggle to communicate the confidence of their predictions. Operators may end up blindly trusting a model, unaware that the model is only marginally confident or has never seen the input data during training. We present a visualization dashboard for encrypted network traffic labels that combines confidence sliders and visualizations to contextualize the model’s uncertainty.

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