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In real applications, object detectors based on deep networks still face challenges of the large domain gap between the labeled training data and unlabeled testing data. To reduce the gap, recent techniques are proposed by aligning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sanli Tang , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Dashan Guo , Yi Niu , Fei Wu

Deep learning has emerged as a powerful approach for malware detection, demonstrating impressive accuracy across various data representations. However, these models face critical limitations in real-world, non-stationary environments where…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Pawan Acharya , Lan Zhang

The existing malware classification approaches (i.e., binary and family classification) can barely benefit subsequent analysis with their outputs. Even the family classification approaches suffer from lacking a formal naming standard and an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Qijing Qiao , Ruitao Feng , Sen Chen , Fei Zhang , Xiaohong Li

As powerful tools for representation learning on graphs, graph neural networks (GNNs) have played an important role in applications including social networks, recommendation systems, and online web services. However, GNNs have been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Haoran Liu , Bokun Wang , Jianling Wang , Xiangjue Dong , Tianbao Yang , James Caverlee

This work addresses classification of unknown binaries executed in sandbox by modeling their interaction with system resources (files, mutexes, registry keys and communication with servers over the network) and error messages provided by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Jan Stiborek , Tomáš Pevný , Martin Rehák

Anomaly detection aims to detect abnormal events by a model of normality. It plays an important role in many domains such as network intrusion detection, criminal activity identity and so on. With the rapidly growing size of accessible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Chu Wang , Yan-Ming Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

In recent years, there has been a significant surge in malware attacks, necessitating more advanced preventive measures and remedial strategies. While several successful AI-based malware classification approaches exist categorized into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Quincy Card , Daniel Simpson , Kshitiz Aryal , Maanak Gupta , Sheikh Rabiul Islam

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been found vulnerable to backdoor attacks, raising security concerns about their deployment in mission-critical applications. There are various approaches to detect backdoor attacks, however they all make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Haoyu Jiang , Haiyang Yu , Nan Li , Ping Yi

Deep Generative Models (DGMs) are a popular class of deep learning models which find widespread use because of their ability to synthesize data from complex, high-dimensional manifolds. However, even with their increasing industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ambrish Rawat , Killian Levacher , Mathieu Sinn

In this work we propose a graph-based model that, utilizing relations between groups of System-calls, distinguishes malicious from benign software samples and classifies the detected malicious samples to one of a set of known malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Anna Mpanti , Stavros D. Nikolopoulos , Iosif Polenakis

Deep networks have produced significant gains for various visual recognition problems, leading to high impact academic and commercial applications. Recent work in deep networks highlighted that it is easy to generate images that humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Abhijit Bendale , Terrance Boult

Malware is one of the most common and severe cyber-attack today. Malware infects millions of devices and can perform several malicious activities including mining sensitive data, encrypting data, crippling system performance, and many more.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Pascal Maniriho , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury

Behavioral malware detection aims to improve on the performance of static signature-based techniques used by anti-virus systems, which are less effective against modern polymorphic and metamorphic malware. Behavioral malware classification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Bander Alsulami , Spiros Mancoridis

Deep learning-based malware detectors have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial malware examples, i.e. malware examples that have been deliberately manipulated in order to avoid detection. In light of the vulnerability of deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Daniel Gibert , Giulio Zizzo , Quan Le , Jordi Planes

The popularity of dynamic malware analysis has grown significantly, as it enables analysts to observe the behavior of executing samples, thereby enhancing malware detection and classification decisions. With the continuous increase in new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Ran Liu , Charles Nicholas

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attack despite their tremendous success in many AI fields. Adversarial attack is a method that causes the intended misclassfication by adding imperceptible perturbations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Huy Phan , Yi Xie , Siyu Liao , Jie Chen , Bo Yuan

Traditional malware detection methods exhibit computational inefficiency due to exhaustive feature extraction requirements, creating accuracy-efficiency trade-offs that limit real-time deployment. We formulate malware classification as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Naseem Khan , Aref Y. Al-Tamimi , Amine Bermak , Issa M. Khalil

Malicious software (malware) poses an increasing threat to the security of communication systems as the number of interconnected mobile devices increases exponentially. While some existing malware detection and classification approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Julian Busch , Anton Kocheturov , Volker Tresp , Thomas Seidl

The proliferation of fake reviews, often produced by organized groups, undermines consumer trust and fair competition on online platforms. These groups employ sophisticated strategies that evade traditional detection methods, particularly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jing Zhang , Ke Huang , Yao Zhang , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu

Domain generalization involves learning a classifier from a heterogeneous collection of training sources such that it generalizes to data drawn from similar unknown target domains, with applications in large-scale learning and personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Xavier Thomas , Dhruv Mahajan , Alex Pentland , Abhimanyu Dubey