Academic Research Poster LaTeX Template

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  \block{Introduction}{
    Anomaly detection in distributed systems is critical for maintaining service reliability. Traditional threshold-based approaches fail to capture complex inter-service dependencies.

    \vspace{6pt}
    \textbf{Our approach:} Model the system as a dynamic graph where nodes represent services and edges represent communication patterns. We apply a Graph Neural Network (GNN) to detect anomalous subgraph patterns in real-time.

    \vspace{6pt}
    \textbf{Key contributions:}
    \begin{itemize}[leftmargin=*, nosep]
      \item Temporal graph attention mechanism
      \item Sub-second detection latency
      \item 94.7\% F1-score on production data
    \end{itemize}
  }

  \block{Problem Formulation}{
    Given a system graph $G_t = (V, E_t, X_t)$ at time $t$:
    \begin{align*}
      V &= \{v_1, \ldots, v_n\} \quad \text{(services)} \\
      E_t &\subseteq V \times V \quad \text{(active connections)} \\
      X_t &\in \mathbb{R}^{n \times d} \quad \text{(feature matrix)}
    \end{align*}
    We seek a function $f_\theta$ such that:
    \[ f_\theta(G_{t-w:t}) \to \{0, 1\}^n \]
    classifying each node as normal (0) or anomalous (1) using a sliding window of $w$ graph snapshots.
  }

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  \block{Method}{
    Our architecture consists of three components:

    \vspace{6pt}
    \textbf{1. Temporal Graph Encoder.} We use a stack of $L=3$ graph attention layers with temporal self-attention across the window:
    \[ h_i^{(l)} = \sigma\!\left(\sum_{j \in \mathcal{N}(i)} \alpha_{ij}^{(l)} W^{(l)} h_j^{(l-1)}\right) \]

    \textbf{2. Anomaly Scorer.} A two-layer MLP produces per-node anomaly scores $s_i \in [0,1]$.

    \textbf{3. Graph-Level Aggregation.} We aggregate node scores via attention pooling to produce a system-level anomaly indicator for alert routing.

    \vspace{6pt}
    \textbf{Training:} We use a combination of binary cross-entropy on labeled incidents and a contrastive loss on normal operation windows.
  }

  \block{Experimental Setup}{
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      \toprule
      \textbf{Parameter} & \textbf{Value} \\
      \midrule
      Training samples  & 48,000 graphs \\
      Window size $w$   & 10 snapshots \\
      Feature dim $d$   & 32 \\
      GNN layers $L$    & 3 \\
      Learning rate     & $3 \times 10^{-4}$ \\
      Batch size        & 64 \\
      \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
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  \block{Results}{
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          (Threshold,68.2) (LSTM,78.5) (GCN,85.1) (GAT,89.3) (Ours,94.7)
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    \vspace{6pt}
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    \begin{tabular}{lrrrr}
      \toprule
      & \textbf{Precision} & \textbf{Recall} & \textbf{F1} & \textbf{Latency} \\
      \midrule
      Threshold & 71.3\% & 65.4\% & 68.2\% & 12ms \\
      LSTM      & 82.1\% & 75.2\% & 78.5\% & 85ms \\
      Ours      & \textbf{95.1\%} & \textbf{94.3\%} & \textbf{94.7\%} & 42ms \\
      \bottomrule
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  \block{Conclusion}{
    Our temporal graph attention approach significantly outperforms baselines on real production data while maintaining sub-second detection latency. The method generalizes across different microservice topologies without retraining.

    \vspace{6pt}
    \textbf{Future work:} Extend to multi-cloud deployments and integrate causal reasoning for root cause analysis.

    \vspace{6pt}
    {\small\textit{Funded by <<funding>>}}
  }

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