Date: Nov 1, 2023 

Agenda

Antitrust Policy

• Agenda Bashing (Roll Call, Action Items (5 minutes)

• General Topics

  • <Topics>

• Thoth project overview - @Sridhar Rao 

• Telco Data anonymization using AI initiative - @Sridhar Rao 

• LFN AI Use case deck draft - @Muddasar Ahmed  LFN AI-ML Use case formulation_RH.pptx

  • Discuss additional use cases

  • Review feasibility/value of listed use cases

Pending Action Items

Minutes

• Thoth project overview - @Sridhar Rao  

  • Project was created to address the AI challenges of NFV

  • Q: @Muddasar Ahmed - What type of data is required by Thoth? A: The project defined the data it requires, mostly infrastructure metrics (CPU, Interface throughput)

  • @Muddasar Ahmed - The NSF is funding several research programs in the US

  • Currently there are 3 academic contributors, in addition to @Sridhar Rao who are active on this project

• Telco Data anonymization using AI initiative - @Sridhar Rao 

  • Several popular techniques were considered

  • Q: @Muddasar Ahmed - How do you anonymize data while still preserving the relations between different layers of data? A: This is still under investigation. The team has not yet tried different approaches to linkage preservation. @Muddasar Ahmed suggested some possible approaches

  • Q: @Olaf Renner is there runnable code avaialble

• Thoth & Anonymization Slides

• We will continue the discussion on Thoth and the anonymization during the next Taskforce meeting, which will be hybrid virtual and in-person in Budapest

  • Action item for all - How can we move Thoth forward and make it the vessel for delivering the LFN AI functionality?

  • LFN AI Use case deck draft - @Muddasar Ahmed  LFN AI-ML Use case formulation_RH.pptx

  • @Ranny Haiby - How do we rank all the use cases by value?

  • @Olaf Renner - Can we reach out to projects that worked on intent based and zero touch automation?

• Meeting time - this recurring meeting time conflicts with an LFAI TAC meeting. We should run a poll to find a new time