M <sup>2</sup> -MFP: A Multi-Scale and Multi-Level Memory Failure Prediction Framework for Reliable Cloud Infrastructure
As cloud services become increasingly integral to modern IT infrastructure, ensuring hardware reliability is essential to sustain high-quality service. Memory failures pose a significant threat to overall system stability, making accurate failure prediction through the analysis of memory error logs (i.e., Correctable Errors) imperative. Existing memory failure prediction approaches have notable limitations: rule-based expert models suffer from limited generalizability and low recall rates, while automated feature extraction methods exhibit suboptimal performance. To address these limitations, we propose M2-MFP: a Multi-scale and Multi-Level Memory Failure Prediction framework designed to enhance the reliability and availability of cloud infrastructure. M2-MFP converts correctable errors (CEs) into multi-level binary matrix representations and introduces a Binary Spatial Feature Extractor (BSFE) to automatically extract high-order features at both DIMM-level and bit-level. Building upon the BSFE outputs, we develop a dual-path temporal modeling architecture: 1) a time-patch module that aggregates multi-level features within observation windows, and 2) a time-point module that employs interpretable rule-generation trees trained on bit-level patterns. Experiments on both benchmark datasets and real-world deployment show the superiority of M2-MFP as it outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods by significant margins. Code and data are available at this repository: https://github.com/hwcloud-RAS/M2-MFP.
Authors
- Hong Xie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7935-7210)
- Defu Lian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3507-9607)
- Min Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4088-1266)
- Yu Qiao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6542-7270)
- Zhenli Sheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9127-1496)
- Jialiang Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3816-5548)
- Hongyi Xie
Institutions
- University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Huawei Technologies (China) (CN)
- Technische Universität Berlin (DE)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-08-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3711896.3737243
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Software System Performance and Reliability
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.49
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China