Why do I see "training: start" message after invoking scan_for_anomalies.sh? Is training done as a part of scanning?

[nhasabni]

Why do I see "training: start" and "training: end" messages, when I invoke scan_for_anomalies.sh

$ scripts/scan_for_anomalies.sh -t c_lang_if_stmts_6000_gitrepos.ts -d ~/tmp/glb-director/
Training: start.
Trie L1 build took: 911.168s
Trie L2 build took: 461.512s
Training: complete.
Storing logs in /tmp

[nhasabni]

We agree that "Training: start" message could be misleading. Note, however, that ControlFlag is using a simple machine learning model that is quick to train with modest compute power. So, indeed, scan_for_anomalies script ends up training that model at the start before scanning the target repository for anomalies. That being said, we see that being able to use the pre-trained models could be useful. We plan to add this feature soon.

-- The ControlFlag team