SABR: A Stable Adaptive Bitrate Framework Using Behavior Cloning Pretraining and Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning
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| author | Luo, Pengcheng Zhao, Yunyang Zhang, Bowen Yang, Genke Soong, Boon-Hee Yuen, Chau |
| author_facet | Luo, Pengcheng Zhao, Yunyang Zhang, Bowen Yang, Genke Soong, Boon-Hee Yuen, Chau |
| contents | With the advent of 5G, the internet has entered a new video-centric era. From short-video platforms like TikTok to long-video platforms like Bilibili, online video services are reshaping user consumption habits. Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) control is widely recognized as a critical factor influencing Quality of Experience (QoE). Recent learning-based ABR methods have attracted increasing attention. However, most of them rely on limited network trace sets during training and overlook the wide-distribution characteristics of real-world network conditions, resulting in poor generalization in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. To address this limitation, we propose SABR, a training framework that combines behavior cloning (BC) pretraining with reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning. We also introduce benchmarks, ABRBench-3G and ABRBench-4G+, which provide wide-coverage training traces and dedicated OOD test sets for assessing robustness to unseen network conditions. Experimental results demonstrate that SABR achieves the best average rank compared with Pensieve, Comyco, and NetLLM across the proposed benchmarks. These results indicate that SABR enables more stable learning across wide distributions and improves generalization to unseen network conditions. |
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| spellingShingle | SABR: A Stable Adaptive Bitrate Framework Using Behavior Cloning Pretraining and Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning Luo, Pengcheng Zhao, Yunyang Zhang, Bowen Yang, Genke Soong, Boon-Hee Yuen, Chau Networking and Internet Architecture Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Multimedia With the advent of 5G, the internet has entered a new video-centric era. From short-video platforms like TikTok to long-video platforms like Bilibili, online video services are reshaping user consumption habits. Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) control is widely recognized as a critical factor influencing Quality of Experience (QoE). Recent learning-based ABR methods have attracted increasing attention. However, most of them rely on limited network trace sets during training and overlook the wide-distribution characteristics of real-world network conditions, resulting in poor generalization in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. To address this limitation, we propose SABR, a training framework that combines behavior cloning (BC) pretraining with reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning. We also introduce benchmarks, ABRBench-3G and ABRBench-4G+, which provide wide-coverage training traces and dedicated OOD test sets for assessing robustness to unseen network conditions. Experimental results demonstrate that SABR achieves the best average rank compared with Pensieve, Comyco, and NetLLM across the proposed benchmarks. These results indicate that SABR enables more stable learning across wide distributions and improves generalization to unseen network conditions. |
| title | SABR: A Stable Adaptive Bitrate Framework Using Behavior Cloning Pretraining and Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Multimedia |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10486 |