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Log analysis is crucial for ensuring the orderly and stable operation of information systems, particularly in the field of Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Tianyu Cui , Shiyu Ma , Ziang Chen , Tong Xiao , Shimin Tao , Yilun Liu , Shenglin Zhang , Duoming Lin , Changchang Liu , Yuzhe Cai , Weibin Meng , Yongqian Sun , Dan Pei

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are prolonged, stealthy intrusions by skilled adversaries that compromise high-value systems to steal data or disrupt operations. Reconstructing complete attack chains from massive, heterogeneous logs is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rujie Dai , Peizhuo Lv , Yujiang Gui , Qiujian Lv , Yuanyuan Qiao , Yan Wang , Degang Sun , Weiqing Huang , Yingjiu Li , XiaoFeng Wang

The rapidly evolving cloud platforms and the escalating complexity of network traffic demand proper network traffic monitoring and anomaly detection to ensure network security and performance. This paper introduces a large language model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Ze Yang , Yihong Jin , Juntian Liu , Xinhe Xu , Yihan Zhang , Shuyang Ji

In computer security, designing a robust intrusion detection system is one of the most fundamental and important problems. In this paper, we propose a system-call language-modeling approach for designing anomaly-based host intrusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Gyuwan Kim , Hayoon Yi , Jangho Lee , Yunheung Paek , Sungroh Yoon

Machine learning (ML) is crucial in network anomaly detection for proactive threat hunting, reducing detection and response times significantly. However, challenges in model training, maintenance, and frequent false positives impact its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Tarek Ali , Panos Kostakos

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionised natural language processing tasks, particularly as chat agents. However, their applicability to threat detection problems remains unclear. This paper examines the feasibility of employing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Paul R. B. Houssel , Priyanka Singh , Siamak Layeghy , Marius Portmann

In modern IT systems and computer networks, real-time and offline event log analysis is a crucial part of cyber security monitoring. In particular, event log analysis techniques are essential for the timely detection of cyber attacks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Risto Vaarandi , Hayretdin Bahsi

Log-based anomaly detection is fundamentally constrained by training data sparsity. Our empirical study reveals that public benchmark datasets cover less than 10% of source code log templates. Consequently, models frequently misclassify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xinyu Li , Yintong Huo , Chenxi Mao , Shiwen Shan , Yuxin Su , Yanlin Wang , Zibin Zheng

Large language models (LLMs) have become central to modern AI workflows, powering applications from open-ended text generation to complex agent-based reasoning. However, debugging these models remains a persistent challenge due to their…

This systematic literature review comprehensively examines the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in forecasting and anomaly detection, highlighting the current state of research, inherent challenges, and prospective future…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Jing Su , Chufeng Jiang , Xin Jin , Yuxin Qiao , Tingsong Xiao , Hongda Ma , Rong Wei , Zhi Jing , Jiajun Xu , Junhong Lin

With the rapid development of technology and the acceleration of digitalisation, the frequency and complexity of cyber security threats are increasing. Traditional cybersecurity approaches, often based on static rules and predefined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Shuang Tian , Tao Zhang , Jiqiang Liu , Jiacheng Wang , Xuangou Wu , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Ruichen Zhang , Weiting Zhang , Zhenhui Yuan , Shiwen Mao , Dong In Kim

Despite various approaches being employed to detect vulnerabilities, the number of reported vulnerabilities shows an upward trend over the years. This suggests the problems are not caught before the code is released, which could be caused…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Karl Tamberg , Hayretdin Bahsi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained prominence in various applications, including security. This paper explores the utility of LLMs in scam detection, a critical aspect of cybersecurity. Unlike traditional applications, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Liming Jiang

Detecting system anomalies based on log data is important for ensuring the security and reliability of computer systems. Recently, deep learning models have been widely used for log anomaly detection. The core idea is to model the log…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiao Han , Shuhan Yuan , Mohamed Trabelsi

Ensuring the security of critical infrastructure has become increasingly vital with the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, the heterogeneous nature of IoT data and the lack of human-comprehensible insights from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ashutosh Ghimire , Ghazal Ghajari , Karma Gurung , Love K. Sah , Fathi Amsaad

Anomaly detection (AD) is an important machine learning task with many real-world uses, including fraud detection, medical diagnosis, and industrial monitoring. Within natural language processing (NLP), AD helps detect issues like spam,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tiankai Yang , Yi Nian , Shawn Li , Ruiyao Xu , Yuangang Li , Jiaqi Li , Zhuo Xiao , Xiyang Hu , Ryan Rossi , Kaize Ding , Xia Hu , Yue Zhao

Malicious examples are crucial for evaluating the robustness of machine learning algorithms under attack, particularly in Industrial Control Systems (ICS). However, collecting normal and attack data in ICS environments is challenging due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed

Despite the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across various sectors, cyber security continues to rely on traditional static and dynamic analysis tools, hampered by high false positive rates and superficial code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Rajesh Yarra

Large Language Models (LLMs) are swiftly advancing in architecture and capability, and as they integrate more deeply into complex systems, the urgency to scrutinize their security properties grows. This paper surveys research in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Erfan Shayegani , Md Abdullah Al Mamun , Yu Fu , Pedram Zaree , Yue Dong , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Modern software relies on a multitude of automated testing and quality assurance tools to prevent errors, bugs and potential vulnerabilities. This study sets out to provide a head-to-head, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of six…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Damian Gnieciak , Tomasz Szandala