Quality of Service (QoS) prediction is an essential task in recommendation
systems, where accurately predicting unknown QoS values can improve user
satisfaction. However, existing QoS prediction techniques may perform poorly in
the presence of noise data, such as fake location information or virtual
gateways. In this paper, we propose the Probabilistic Deep Supervision Network
(PDS-Net), a novel framework for QoS prediction that addresses this issue.
PDS-Net utilizes a Gaussian-based probabilistic space to supervise intermediate
layers and learns probability spaces for both known features and true labels.
Moreover, PDS-Net employs a condition-based multitasking loss function to
identify objects with noise data and applies supervision directly to deep
features sampled from the probability space by optimizing the Kullback-Leibler
distance between the probability space of these objects and the real-label
probability space. Thus, PDS-Net effectively reduces errors resulting from the
propagation of corrupted data, leading to more accurate QoS predictions.
Experimental evaluations on two real-world QoS datasets demonstrate that the
proposed PDS-Net outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, validating the
effectiveness of our approach.

通过使用概率深度监督网络 (PDS-Net) 的新框架，该研究解决了噪声数据对于质量服务 (QoS) 预测的负面影响，通过减少错误传播，提高准确性。