用Transformer快速分解网络服务协议,省去复杂计算。
Cascaded Transformer for Robust and Scalable SLA Decomposition via Amortized Optimization

- 分层Transformer结构,结合历史数据与跨域依赖。
- 相比传统方法,分解精度更高,运行速度提升显著。
- 适合需要实时响应的6G网络自动化场景。
6G网络发展越来越依赖网络切片,在共享物理基础设施上提供端到端(E2E)逻辑网络。核心挑战是如何将端到端服务等级协议(SLA)高效分解为各域特定的SLA。现有方法依赖计算量大、迭代式的优化过程,导致高延迟和复杂性。为此,本文提出Casformer,一种用于快速、免优化的SLA分解级联Transformer架构。该模型第一层利用领域特定Transformer编码器编码历史域反馈,第二层通过基于Transformer的聚合器整合跨域依赖。模型采用受领域感知神经网络(DINNs)启发的学习范式,融合风险建模与摊销优化,学习稳定、前向传播的SLA分解策略。大量实验表明,Casformer在分解质量上优于现有优化框架,且在动态和噪声环境下具备更强可扩展性与鲁棒性。此外,其前向设计显著降低运行时复杂度,简化部署与维护。研究揭示了摊销优化与Transformer序列建模结合在推进网络自动化方面的潜力,为5G及以后网络环境中的实时SLA管理提供了高效可扩展的解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The evolution toward 6G networks increasingly relies on network slicing to provide tailored, End-to-End (E2E) logical networks over shared physical infrastructures. A critical challenge is effectively decomposing E2E Service Level Agreements (SLAs) into domain-specific SLAs, which current solutions handle through computationally intensive, iterative optimization processes that incur substantial latency and complexity. To address this, we introduce Casformer, a cascaded Transformer architecture designed for fast, optimization-free SLA decomposition. Casformer leverages historical domain feedback encoded through domain-specific Transformer encoders in its first layer, and integrates cross-domain dependencies using a Transformer-based aggregator in its second layer. The model is trained under a learning paradigm inspired by Domain-Informed Neural Networks (DINNs), incorporating risk-informed modeling and amortized optimization to learn a stable, forward-only SLA decomposition policy. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that Casformer achieves improved SLA decomposition quality against state-of-the-art optimization-based frameworks, while exhibiting enhanced scalability and robustness under volatile and noisy network conditions. In addition, its forward-only design reduces runtime complexity and simplifies deployment and maintenance. These insights reveal the potential of combining amortized optimization with Transformer-based sequence modeling to advance network automation, providing a scalable and efficient solution suitable for real-time SLA management in advanced 5G-and-beyond network environments.
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