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Anomaly detection on attributed networks aims to find the nodes whose behaviors are significantly different from other majority nodes. Generally, network data contains information about relationships between entities, and the anomaly is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Enbo He , Yitong Hao , Yue Zhang , Guisheng Yin , Lina Yao

This study proposes an unsupervised anomaly detection method for distributed backend service systems, addressing practical challenges such as complex structural dependencies, diverse behavioral evolution, and the absence of labeled data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yun Zi , Ming Gong , Zhihao Xue , Yujun Zou , Nia Qi , Yingnan Deng

The adoption of modern encryption protocols such as TLS 1.3 has significantly challenged traditional network traffic classification (NTC) methods. As a consequence, researchers are increasingly turning to machine learning (ML) approaches to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Nimesha Wickramasinghe , Arash Shaghaghi , Gene Tsudik , Sanjay Jha

The SHAP (short for Shapley additive explanation) framework has become an essential tool for attributing importance to variables in predictive tasks. In model-agnostic settings, SHAP uses the concept of Shapley values from cooperative game…

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Safe operation of machine learning models requires architectures that explicitly delimit their operational ranges. We evaluate the ability of anomaly detection algorithms to provide indicators correlated with degraded model performance. By…

Anomaly detection is concerned with identifying data patterns that deviate remarkably from the expected behaviour. This is an important research problem, due to its broad set of application domains, from data analysis to e-health,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 L. Erhan , M. Ndubuaku , M. Di Mauro , W. Song , M. Chen , G. Fortino , O. Bagdasar , A. Liotta

As the use of Blockchain for digital payments continues to rise in popularity, it also becomes susceptible to various malicious attacks. Successfully detecting anomalies within Blockchain transactions is essential for bolstering trust in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Mohammad Hasan , Mohammad Shahriar Rahman , Helge Janicke , Iqbal H. Sarker

With the high requirements of automation in the era of Industry 4.0, anomaly detection plays an increasingly important role in higher safety and reliability in the production and manufacturing industry. Recently, autoencoders have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Yiwen Liao , Alexander Bartler , Bin Yang

In this paper we focus on the detection of network anomalies like Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and port scans in a unified manner. While there has been an extensive amount of research in network anomaly detection, current state of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Tahereh Babaie , Sanjay Chawla , Sebastien Ardon

The sophistication and diversity of contemporary cyberattacks have rendered the use of proxies, gateways, firewalls, and encrypted tunnels as a standalone defensive strategy inadequate. Consequently, the proactive identification of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Liyang Wang , Yu Cheng , Hao Gong , Jiacheng Hu , Xirui Tang , Iris Li

With the rapid development of Internet of Things technologies, the next generation traffic monitoring infrastructures are connected via the web, to aid traffic data collection and intelligent traffic management. One of the most important…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yue Hu , Yuhang Zhang , Yanbing Wang , Daniel Work

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) present a considerable challenge to cybersecurity due to their stealthy, long-duration nature. Traditional supervised learning methods typically require large amounts of labeled data, which is often scarce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Talal Rahwan

Anomaly detection is a critical task in cybersecurity, where identifying insider threats, access violations, and coordinated attacks is essential for ensuring system resilience. Graph-based approaches have become increasingly important for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Laura Jiang , Reza Ryan , Qian Li , Nasim Ferdosian

Many social and economic systems can be represented as attributed networks encoding the relations between entities who are themselves described by different node attributes. Finding anomalies in these systems is crucial for detecting abuses…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Leonardo Gutiérrez-Gómez , Alexandre Bovet , Jean-Charles Delvenne

Deep neural networks are increasingly used in natural language processing (NLP) models. However, the need to interpret and explain the results from complex algorithms are limiting their widespread adoption in regulated industries such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Wei Zhao , Tarun Joshi , Vijayan N. Nair , Agus Sudjianto

This paper proposes to develop a network phenotyping mechanism based on network resource usage analysis and identify abnormal network traffic. The network phenotyping may use different metrics in the cyber physical system (CPS), including…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Minhui Zou , Chengliang Wang , Fangyu Li , WenZhan Song

This paper presents a tutorial for network anomaly detection, focusing on non-signature-based approaches. Network traffic anomalies are unusual and significant changes in the traffic of a network. Networks play an important role in today's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Hong Huang , Hussein Al-Azzawi , Hajar Brani

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) models have recently attracted a great deal of interest from a variety of application sectors. Despite significant developments in this area, there are still no standardized methods or approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Sarit Maitra , Vivek Mishra , Pratima Verma , Manav Chopra , Priyanka Nath

The use of data-driven methods in fluid mechanics has surged dramatically in recent years due to their capacity to adapt to the complex and multi-scale nature of turbulent flows, as well as to detect patterns in large-scale simulations or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-19 Andrés Cremades , Sergio Hoyas , Ricardo Vinuesa

To address the problem that traditional network traffic anomaly detection algorithms do not suffi-ciently mine potential features in long time domain, an anomaly detection method based on mul-ti-scale residual features of network traffic is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Xueyuan Duan , Yu Fu , Kun Wang