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Language evolves over time in many ways relevant to natural language processing tasks. For example, recent occurrences of tokens 'BERT' and 'ELMO' in publications refer to neural network architectures rather than persons. This type of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Johannes Bjerva , Wouter Kouw , Isabelle Augenstein

Machine learning-based Android malware classifiers achieve high accuracy in stationary environments but struggle with concept drift. The rapid evolution of malware, especially with new families, can depress classification accuracy to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yiling He , Junchi Lei , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren , Chun Chen

The public text record -- the material from which both people and AI systems now learn -- is increasingly shaped by its own outputs. Generated text enters the public record, later agents learn from it, and the cycle repeats. Here we develop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Søren Riis

With today's abundant streams of data, the only constant we can rely on is change. For stream classification algorithms, it is necessary to adapt to concept drift. This can be achieved by monitoring the model error, and triggering counter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Lukas Fleckenstein , Sebastian Kauschke , Johannes Fürnkranz

In user targeting automation systems, concept drift in input data is one of the main challenges. It deteriorates model performance on new data over time. Previous research on concept drift mostly proposed model retraining after observing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Jing Pan , Vincent Pham , Mohan Dorairaj , Huigang Chen , Jeong-Yoon Lee

Machine learning (ML) represents an efficient and popular approach for network traffic classification. However, network traffic classification is a challenging domain, and trained models may degrade soon after deployment due to the obsolete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Dominik Soukup , Richard Plný , Daniel Vašata , Tomáš Čejka

Concept drift refers to changes in the distribution of underlying data and is an inherent property of evolving data streams. Ensemble learning, with dynamic classifiers, has proved to be an efficient method of handling concept drift.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Anjin Liu , Jie Lu , Guangquan Zhang

This paper explores the concepts of modelling a software development project as a process that results in the creation of a continuous stream of data. In terms of the Jazz repository used in this research, one aspect of that stream of data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Andy M. Connor , Jacqui Finlay , Russel Pears

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is of great importance in recommendation systems and online advertising platforms. When served in industrial scenarios, the user-generated data observed by the CTR model typically arrives as a stream.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Congcong Liu , Fei Teng , Xiwei Zhao , Zhangang Lin , Jinghe Hu , Jingping Shao

In the context of Just-In-Time Software Defect Prediction (JIT-SDP), Concept drift (CD) can occur due to changes in the software development process, the complexity of the software, or changes in user behavior that may affect the stability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zeynab Chitsazian , Saeed Sedighian Kashi , Amin Nikanjam

We introduce and study knowledge drift (KD), a complex form of drift that occurs in hierarchical classification. Under KD the vocabulary of concepts, their individual distributions, and the is-a relations between them can all change over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Andrea Bontempelli , Fausto Giunchiglia , Andrea Passerini , Stefano Teso

This work proposes a structural approach to concept drift detection in malware classification using decision tree rulesets. Classifiers are trained across temporal windows on the EMBER2024 dataset, and drift is quantified by comparing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Tomáš Kalný , Martin Jureček , Mark Stamp

In real-world applications, the process generating the data might suffer from nonstationary effects (e.g., due to seasonality, faults affecting sensors or actuators, and changes in the users' behaviour). These changes, often called concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Kleanthis Malialis , Manuel Roveri , Cesare Alippi , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

In statistical modelling the biggest threat is concept drift which makes the model gradually showing deteriorating performance over time. There are state of the art methodologies to detect the impact of concept drift, however general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Kumarjit Pathak , Jitin Kapila

With the boom of machine learning (ML) techniques, software practitioners build ML systems to process the massive volume of streaming data for diverse software engineering tasks such as failure prediction in AIOps. Trained using historical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tri Minh Triet Pham , Karthikeyan Premkumar , Mohamed Naili , Jinqiu Yang

Travel mode choice (TMC) prediction, which can be formulated as a classification task, helps in understanding what makes citizens choose different modes of transport for individual trips. This is also a major step towards fostering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Paweł Golik , Maciej Grzenda , Elżbieta Sienkiewicz

Concept drift refers to the change of data distributions over time. While drift poses a challenge for learning models, requiring their continual adaption, it is also relevant in system monitoring to detect malfunctions, system failures, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Fabian Hinder , Valerie Vaquet , Barbara Hammer

A vast amount of textual web streams is influenced by events or phenomena emerging in the real world. The social web forms an excellent modern paradigm, where unstructured user generated content is published on a regular basis and in most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Vasileios Lampos

Given a stream of entries over time in a multi-dimensional data setting where concept drift is present, how can we detect anomalous activities? Most of the existing unsupervised anomaly detection approaches seek to detect anomalous events…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Siddharth Bhatia , Arjit Jain , Shivin Srivastava , Kenji Kawaguchi , Bryan Hooi

Existing drift detection methods focus on designing sensitive test statistics. They treat the detection threshold as a fixed hyperparameter, set once to balance false alarms and late detections, and applied uniformly across all datasets and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Pengqian Lu , Jie Lu , Anjin Liu , En Yu , Guangquan Zhang