English
Related papers

Related papers: Generating Synthetic Malware Samples Using Generat…

200 papers

Despite data augmentation being a de facto technique for boosting the performance of deep neural networks, little attention has been paid to developing augmentation strategies for generative adversarial networks (GANs). To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Prateek Katiyar , Anna Khoreva

Programmatically generated synthetic data has been used in differential private training for classification to enhance performance without privacy leakage. However, as the synthetic data is generated from a random process, the distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yujin Choi , Jinseong Park , Junyoung Byun , Jaewook Lee

Antivirus developers are increasingly embracing machine learning as a key component of malware defense. While machine learning achieves cutting-edge outcomes in many fields, it also has weaknesses that are exploited by several adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Matouš Kozák , Martin Jureček

Many promising applications of supervised machine learning face hurdles in the acquisition of labeled data in sufficient quantity and quality, creating an expensive bottleneck. To overcome such limitations, techniques that do not depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Benedikt Boecking , Nicholas Roberts , Willie Neiswanger , Stefano Ermon , Frederic Sala , Artur Dubrawski

Malware detection models based on deep learning have been widely used, but recent research shows that deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial attacks are to deceive the deep learning model by generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Kun Li , Fan Zhang , Wei Guo

A myriad of recent literary works has leveraged generative adversarial networks (GANs) to generate unseen evasion samples. The purpose is to annex the generated data with the original train set for adversarial training to improve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Rizwan Hamid Randhawa , Nauman Aslam , Mohammad Alauthman , Husnain Rafiq

Several recent work on speech synthesis have employed generative adversarial networks (GANs) to produce raw waveforms. Although such methods improve the sampling efficiency and memory usage, their sample quality has not yet reached that of…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jungil Kong , Jaehyeon Kim , Jaekyoung Bae

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become exceedingly popular in a wide range of data-driven research fields, due in part to their success in image generation. Their ability to generate new samples, often from only a small amount…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Thomas Wiest , Nicholas Cummins , Alice Baird , Simone Hantke , Judith Dineley , Björn Schuller

Recently, there has been a growing focus and interest in applying machine learning (ML) to the field of cybersecurity, particularly in malware detection and prevention. Several research works on malware analysis have been proposed, offering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Trong-Nghia To , Danh Le Kim , Do Thi Thu Hien , Nghi Hoang Khoa , Hien Do Hoang , Phan The Duy , Van-Hau Pham

Generative models are increasingly used to produce privacy-preserving synthetic data as a safe alternative to sharing sensitive training datasets. However, we demonstrate that such synthetic releases can still leak information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 S. M. Mustaqim , Anantaa Kotal , Paul H. Yi

Machine learning methods to aid defence systems in detecting malicious activity typically rely on labelled data. In some domains, such labelled data is unavailable or incomplete. In practice this can lead to low detection rates and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Ricardo Ribeiro Pereira , Jacopo Bono , João Tiago Ascensão , David Aparício , Pedro Ribeiro , Pedro Bizarro

Data plays a fundamental role in consolidating markets, services, and products in the digital financial ecosystem. However, the use of real data, especially in the financial context, can lead to privacy risks and access restrictions,…

We present a task-aware approach to synthetic data generation. Our framework employs a trainable synthesizer network that is optimized to produce meaningful training samples by assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a `target' network.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Shashank Tripathi , Siddhartha Chandra , Amit Agrawal , Ambrish Tyagi , James M. Rehg , Visesh Chari

Class imbalance in a dataset is one of the major challenges that can significantly impact the performance of machine learning models resulting in biased predictions. Numerous techniques have been proposed to address class imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Md Manjurul Ahsan , Md Shahin Ali , Zahed Siddique

Supervised training of an automated medical image analysis system often requires a large amount of expert annotations that are hard to collect. Moreover, the proportions of data available across different classes may be highly imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yuan Xue , Jiarong Ye , Rodney Long , Sameer Antani , Zhiyun Xue , Xiaolei Huang

The dawn of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), characterized by advanced models such as Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) and other Large Language Models (LLMs), has been pivotal in reshaping the field of data analysis,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Shivani Metta , Isaac Chang , Jack Parker , Michael P. Roman , Arturo F. Ehuan

Malware detection have used machine learning to detect malware in programs. These applications take in raw or processed binary data to neural network models to classify as benign or malicious files. Even though this approach has proven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Xiruo Wang , Risto Miikkulainen

Network and system security are incredibly critical issues now. Due to the rapid proliferation of malware, traditional analysis methods struggle with enormous samples. In this paper, we propose four easy-to-extract and small-scale features,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Zhenshuo Chen , Eoin Brophy , Tomas Ward

New medical datasets are now more open to the public, allowing for better and more extensive research. Although prepared with the utmost care, new datasets might still be a source of spurious correlations that affect the learning process.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Agnieszka Mikołajczyk , Sylwia Majchrowska , Sandra Carrasco Limeros

One of the limiting factors in training data-driven, rare-event prediction algorithms is the scarcity of the events of interest resulting in an extreme imbalance in the data. There have been many methods introduced in the literature for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yang Chen , Dustin J. Kempton , Azim Ahmadzadeh , Rafal A. Angryk