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Machine learning has achieved state-of-the-art results in network intrusion detection; however, its performance significantly degrades when confronted by a new attack class -- a zero-day attack. In simple terms, classical machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jack Wilkie , Hanan Hindy , Craig Michie , Christos Tachtatzis , James Irvine , Robert Atkinson

Network intrusion detection systems face significant challenges in identifying emerging attack patterns, especially when limited data samples are available. To address this, we propose a novel Multi-Space Prototypical Learning (MSPL)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Fernando Martinez-Lopez , Lesther Santana , Mohamed Rahouti

Network security is a critical concern in the digital landscape of today, with users demanding secure browsing experiences and protection of their personal data. This study explores the dynamic integration of Machine Learning (ML)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Pablo Benlloch , Oscar Romero , Antonio Leon , Jaime Lloret

Machine learning (ML)-based network intrusion detection is susceptible to attacks that perturb malicious network flows to evade detection. Existing approaches to evaluating the robustness of these models rely on gradient-based optimization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kyle Domico , Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand , Patrick McDaniel

Machine learning (ML) systems have introduced significant advances in various fields, due to the introduction of highly complex models. Despite their success, it has been shown multiple times that machine learning models are prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Mehmet Kerim Yucel , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis , Pinar Duygulu

Detecting Zero-Day intrusions has been the goal of Cybersecurity, especially intrusion detection for a long time. Machine learning is believed to be the promising methodology to solve that problem, numerous models have been proposed but a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Qianru Zhou , Dimitrios Pezaros

The use of Machine Learning (ML) models in cybersecurity solutions requires high-quality data that is stripped of redundant, missing, and noisy information. By selecting the most relevant features, data integrity and model efficiency can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Miguel Silva , João Vitorino , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a promising approach to generalizing a model to categories unseen during training by leveraging class attributes, but challenges remain. Recently, methods using generative models to combat bias towards classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Vinay K Verma , Nikhil Mehta , Kevin J Liang , Aakansha Mishra , Lawrence Carin

Zero Day Threats (ZDT) are novel methods used by malicious actors to attack and exploit information technology (IT) networks or infrastructure. In the past few years, the number of these threats has been increasing at an alarming rate and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Christopher Redino , Dhruv Nandakumar , Robert Schiller , Kevin Choi , Abdul Rahman , Edward Bowen , Matthew Weeks , Aaron Shaha , Joe Nehila

Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) to detect malicious attacks continue to meet challenges. NIDS are often developed offline while they face auto-generated port scan infiltration attempts, resulting in a significant time lag from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Zong-Zhi Lin , Thomas D. Pike , Mark M. Bailey , Nathaniel D. Bastian

Machine learning (ML) has become a core component of many real-world applications and training data is a key factor that drives current progress. This huge success has led Internet companies to deploy machine learning as a service (MLaaS).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Ahmed Salem , Yang Zhang , Mathias Humbert , Pascal Berrang , Mario Fritz , Michael Backes

The uses of Machine Learning (ML) in detection of network attacks have been effective when designed and evaluated in a single organisation. However, it has been very challenging to design an ML-based detection system by utilising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Mohanad Sarhan , Siamak Layeghy , Nour Moustafa , Marius Portmann

Machine Learning (ML) has automated a multitude of our day-to-day decision making domains such as education, employment and driving automation. The continued success of ML largely depends on our ability to trust the model we are using.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Sakshi Udeshi , Shanshan Peng , Gerald Woo , Lionell Loh , Louth Rawshan , Sudipta Chattopadhyay

Machine Learning (ML)-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) have proven to become a reliable intelligence tool to protect networks against cyberattacks. Network data features has a great impact on the performances of ML-based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Mohanad Sarhan , Siamak Layeghy , Nour Moustafa , Marius Portmann

Network intrusion detection (NID) is an essential defense strategy that is used to discover the trace of suspicious user behaviour in large-scale cyberspace, and machine learning (ML), due to its capability of automation and intelligence,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Shiyi Yang , Peilun Wu , Hui Guo

Supervised detection of network attacks has always been a critical part of network intrusion detection systems (NIDS). Nowadays, in a pivotal time for artificial intelligence (AI), with even more sophisticated attacks that utilize advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Iakovos-Christos Zarkadis , Christos Douligeris

With massive data being generated daily and the ever-increasing interconnectivity of the world's Internet infrastructures, a machine learning based intrusion detection system (IDS) has become a vital component to protect our economic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zachary Tauscher , Yushan Jiang , Kai Zhang , Jian Wang , Houbing Song

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) for image classification focuses on recognizing novel categories that have no labeled data available for training. The learning is generally carried out with the help of mid-level semantic descriptors associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Debasmit Das , C. S. George Lee

Increasing use of machine learning (ML) technologies in privacy-sensitive domains such as medical diagnoses, lifestyle predictions, and business decisions highlights the need to better understand if these ML technologies are introducing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Shagufta Mehnaz , Sayanton V. Dibbo , Ehsanul Kabir , Ninghui Li , Elisa Bertino

A significant increase in the number of interconnected devices and data communication through wireless networks has given rise to various threats, risks and security concerns. Internet of Things (IoT) applications is deployed in almost…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Poornima Mahadevappa , Syeda Mariam Muzammal , Raja Kumar Murugesan