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In cyberattack detection and prevention systems, cybersecurity analysts always prefer solutions that are as interpretable and understandable as rule-based or signature-based detection. This is because of the need to tune and optimize these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-30 William Briguglio , Sherif Saad

Practitioners use Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) in different problems for about sixty years. Besides, Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are an alternative to HMMs and appear in the literature as different and somewhat concurrent models. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-28 Elie Azeraf , Emmanuel Monfrini , Wojciech Pieczynski

We consider learning parameters of Binomial Hidden Markov Models, which may be used to model DNA methylation data. The standard algorithm for the problem is EM, which is computationally expensive for sequences of the scale of the mammalian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Chicheng Zhang , Eran A. Mukamel , Kamalika Chaudhuri

In recent years, there has been a surge in malware attacks across critical infrastructures, requiring further research and development of appropriate response and remediation strategies in malware detection and classification. Several works…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Quincy Card , Kshitiz Aryal , Maanak Gupta

Static feature-based Android malware detection using machine learning (ML) remains critical due to its scalability and efficiency. However, existing approaches often overlook security-critical reproducibility concerns, such as dataset…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Md Tanvirul Alam , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Cyber-crimes have become a multi-billion-dollar industry in the recent years. Most cybercrimes/attacks involve deploying some type of malware. Malware that viciously targets every industry, every sector, every enterprise and even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Marwan Omar

Malware detection in IoT environments necessitates robust methodologies. This study introduces a CNN-LSTM hybrid model for IoT malware identification and evaluates its performance against established methods. Leveraging K-fold…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Ali Mehrban , Pegah Ahadian

There is an increasing trend to mine vulnerabilities from software repositories and use machine learning techniques to automatically detect software vulnerabilities. A fundamental but unresolved research question is: how do different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Esma Mouine , Yan Liu , Lu Xiao , Rick Kazman , Xiao Wang

Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are powerful tools for modeling sequential data, where the underlying states evolve in a stochastic manner and are only indirectly observable. Traditional HMM approaches are well-established for linear sequences,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-05 Farzan Vafa , Sahand Hormoz

Many studies have proposed machine-learning (ML) models for malware detection and classification, reporting an almost-perfect performance. However, they assemble ground-truth in different ways, use diverse static- and dynamic-analysis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Savino Dambra , Yufei Han , Simone Aonzo , Platon Kotzias , Antonino Vitale , Juan Caballero , Davide Balzarotti , Leyla Bilge

An exhaustive study on neural network language modeling (NNLM) is performed in this paper. Different architectures of basic neural network language models are described and examined. A number of different improvements over basic neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Dengliang Shi

Isolated sign recognition from video streams is a challenging problem due to the multi-modal nature of the signs, where both local and global hand features and face gestures needs to be attended simultaneously. This problem has recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Anil Osman Tur , Hacer Yalim Keles

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been applied to a broad range of applications, including natural language processing, drug discovery, and video recognition. Their vulnerability to input perturbation is also known. Aligning with a view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Wei Huang , Youcheng Sun , Xingyu Zhao , James Sharp , Wenjie Ruan , Jie Meng , Xiaowei Huang

Hierarchical structures exist in both linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. How to design RNNs to learn hierarchical representations of natural languages remains a long-standing challenge. In this paper, we define two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Zhaoxin Luo , Michael Zhu

Traditionally, machine learning methods for PE malware detection have relied on static features like byte histograms, string information, and PE header contents. One barrier to incorporating dynamic analysis features has been the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Rebecca Saul , Jingzhi Jiang , Elliott Chia , David Wagner

In general, the industry of malware has come to be a market which brings on loads of money by investing and implementing high end technology to escape traditional detection while vendors of anti-malware spend thousands if not millions of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Mouhammd Alkasassbeh , Samail Al-Daleen

Malware is one of the most dangerous and costly cyber threats to national security and a crucial factor in modern cyber-space. However, the adoption of machine learning (ML) based solutions against malware threats has been relatively slow.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Maksim E. Eren , Manish Bhattarai , Kim Rasmussen , Boian S. Alexandrov , Charles Nicholas

Background. Previous state-of-the-art systems on Drug Name Recognition (DNR) and Clinical Concept Extraction (CCE) have focused on a combination of text "feature engineering" and conventional machine learning algorithms such as conditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Ehsan Zare Borzeshi , Massimo Piccardi

Speech recognition has become an important task in the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence. In this study, we explore the important task of keyword spotting using speech recognition machine learning and deep learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Sumedha Rai , Tong Li , Bella Lyu

In this paper, we consider the problem of malware detection and classification based on image analysis. We convert executable files to images and apply image recognition using deep learning (DL) models. To train these models, we employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Niket Bhodia , Pratikkumar Prajapati , Fabio Di Troia , Mark Stamp