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A lack of accessible data has historically restricted malware analysis research, and practitioners have relied heavily on datasets provided by industry sources to advance. Existing public datasets are limited by narrow scope - most include…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Robert J. Joyce , Gideon Miller , Phil Roth , Richard Zak , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Hyrum Anderson , Edward Raff , James Holt

Continuous learning from an immense volume of data streams becomes exceptionally critical in the internet era. However, data streams often do not conform to the same distribution over time, leading to a phenomenon called concept drift.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ke Wan , Yi Liang , Susik Yoon

In machine learning, concept drift is an evolution of information that invalidates the current data model. It happens when the statistical properties of the input data change over time in unforeseen ways. Concept drift detection is crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Honorius Galmeanu , Razvan Andonie

Classifying streaming data requires the development of methods which are computationally efficient and able to cope with changes in the underlying distribution of the stream, a phenomenon known in the literature as concept drift. We propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-12-27 Gordon J. Ross , Niall M. Adams , Dimitris K. Tasoulis , David J. Hand

Non-stationarity of an underlying data generating process that leads to distributional changes over time is a key characteristic of Data Streams. This phenomenon, commonly referred to as Concept Drift, has been intensively studied, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Brandon Gower-Winter , Misja Groen , Georg Krempl

Mining data streams is one of the main studies in machine learning area due to its application in many knowledge areas. One of the major challenges on mining data streams is concept drift, which requires the learner to discard the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Jean Paul Barddal , Heitor Murilo Gomes , Fabrício Enembreck

A fundamental issue for statistical classification models in a streaming environment is that the joint distribution between predictor and response variables changes over time (a phenomenon also known as concept drifts), such that their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-11 Shujian Yu , Zubin Abraham , Heng Wang , Mohak Shah , Yantao Wei , José C. Príncipe

Continuous machine learning pipelines are common in industrial settings where models are periodically trained on data streams. Unfortunately, concept drifts may occur in data streams where the joint distribution of the data X and label y,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Minsu Kim , Seong-Hyeon Hwang , Steven Euijong Whang

Deployed machine learning models are confronted with the problem of changing data over time, a phenomenon also called concept drift. While existing approaches of concept drift detection already show convincing results, they require true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Lucas Baier , Tim Schlör , Jakob Schöffer , Niklas Kühl

Increasingly, Internet of Things (IoT) domains, such as sensor networks, smart cities, and social networks, generate vast amounts of data. Such data are not only unbounded and rapidly evolving. Rather, the content thereof dynamically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-19 Ali Pesaranghader , Herna Viktor , Eric Paquet

Supervised learning models are one of the most fundamental classes of models. Viewing supervised learning from a probabilistic perspective, the set of training data to which the model is fitted is usually assumed to follow a stationary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-14 Kungang Zhang , Anh T. Bui , Daniel W. Apley

The last decade has seen a surge of interest in adaptive learning algorithms for data stream classification, with applications ranging from predicting ozone level peaks, learning stock market indicators, to detecting computer security…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-13 Ali Pesaranghader , Herna Viktor , Eric Paquet

Data stream mining problem has caused widely concerns in the area of machine learning and data mining. In some recent studies, ensemble classification has been widely used in concept drift detection, however, most of them regard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Junhong Wang , Shuliang Xu , Bingqian Duan , Caifeng Liu , Jiye Liang

Android malware detectors often degrade after deployment because of concept drift, while full retraining at each maintenance step is costly. We propose a chronological adaptive maintenance framework that models deployment-time maintenance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ahmed Sabbah , Mohammad Kharma , Mohammad Alkhanafseh , Radi Jarrar , Samer Zein , David Mohaisen

Data streams are often defined as large amounts of data flowing continuously at high speed. Moreover, these data are likely subject to changes in data distribution, known as concept drift. Given all the reasons mentioned above, learning…

Predictive models often degrade in performance due to evolving data distributions, a phenomenon known as data drift. Among its forms, concept drift, where the relationship between explanatory variables and the response variable changes, is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-18 Ugur Dar , Mustafa Cavus

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

As next-generation networks materialize, increasing levels of intelligence are required. Federated Learning has been identified as a key enabling technology of intelligent and distributed networks; however, it is prone to concept drift as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Dimitrios Michael Manias , Ibrahim Shaer , Li Yang , Abdallah Shami

We propose a novel method to detect and visualize malware through image classification. The executable binaries are represented as grayscale images obtained from the count of N-grams (N=2) of bytes in the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Satish Chikkagoudar , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

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