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Machine learning models are being increasingly used to automate decisions in almost every domain, and ensuring the performance of these models is crucial for ensuring high quality machine learning enabled services. Ensuring concept drift is…

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Analyzing a huge amount of malware is a major burden for security analysts. Since emerging malware is often a variant of existing malware, automatically classifying malware into known families greatly reduces a part of their burden.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Rikima Mitsuhashi , Takahiro Shinagawa

Data-driven predictive analytics are in use today across a number of industrial applications, but further integration is hindered by the requirement of similarity among model training and test data distributions. This paper addresses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Yunwen Xu , Rui Xu , Weizhong Yan , Paul Ardis

Time-series data is widely studied in various scenarios, like weather forecast, stock market, customer behavior analysis. To comprehensively learn about the dynamic environments, it is necessary to comprehend features from multiple data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Xumeng Wang , Wei Chen , Jiazhi Xia , Zexian Chen , Dongshi Xu , Xiangyang Wu , Mingliang Xu , Tobias Schreck

Adapting to drifting data streams is a significant challenge in online learning. Concept drift must be detected for effective model adaptation to evolving data properties. Concept drift can impact the data distribution entirely or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Gabriel J. Aguiar , Alberto Cano

Concept drift is formally defined as the change in joint distribution of a set of input variables X and a target variable y. The two types of drift that are extensively studied are real drift and virtual drift where the former is the change…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Chang How Tan , Vincent CS Lee , Mahsa Salehi

Continuous learning from streaming data is among the most challenging topics in the contemporary machine learning. In this domain, learning algorithms must not only be able to handle massive volumes of rapidly arriving data, but also adapt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Łukasz Korycki , Bartosz Krawczyk

Encrypted traffic classification technology is a crucial decision-making information source for network management and security protection. It has the advantages of excellent response timeliness, large-scale data bearing, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Zihan Chen , Guang Cheng , Jinhui Li , Tian Qin , Yuyang Zhou , Xing Luan

Online Learning (OL) is a field of research that is increasingly gaining attention both in academia and industry. One of the main challenges of OL is the inherent presence of concept drifts, which are commonly defined as unforeseeable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Mauro Dalle Lucca Tosi , Martin Theobald

Systems and individuals produce data continuously. On the Internet, people share their knowledge, sentiments, and opinions, provide reviews about services and products, and so on. Automatically learning from these textual data can provide…

The performance figures of modern drift-adaptive malware classifiers appear promising, but does this translate to genuine operational reliability? The standard evaluation paradigm primarily focuses on baseline performance metrics,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Alexander Herzog , Aliai Eusebi , Lorenzo Cavallaro

Classifiers operating in a dynamic, real world environment, are vulnerable to adversarial activity, which causes the data distribution to change over time. These changes are traditionally referred to as concept drift, and several approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Tegjyot Singh Sethi , Mehmed Kantardzic

We present MADCAT, a self-supervised approach designed to address the concept drift problem in malware detection. MADCAT employs an encoder-decoder architecture and works by test-time training of the encoder on a small, balanced subset of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Eunjin Roh , Yigitcan Kaya , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna , Sanghyun Hong

We introduce Class Distribution Monitoring (CDM), an effective concept-drift detection scheme that monitors the class-conditional distributions of a datastream. In particular, our solution leverages multiple instances of an online and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Diego Stucchi , Luca Frittoli , Giacomo Boracchi

Classifiers and other statistics-based machine learning (ML) techniques generalize, or learn, based on various statistical properties of the training data. The assumption underlying statistical ML resulting in theoretical or empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Samuel Ackerman , Orna Raz , Marcel Zalmanovici , Aviad Zlotnick

We study supervised multiclass classification for diffusion processes, where each class is characterized by a distinct drift function and trajectories are observed at discrete times. We first derive a multidimensional Bayes rule and then…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Yuzhen Zhao , Jiarong Fan , Yating Liu

Detecting drift in performance of Machine Learning (ML) models is an acknowledged challenge. For ML models to become an integral part of business applications it is essential to detect when an ML model drifts away from acceptable operation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Samuel Ackerman , Parijat Dube , Eitan Farchi , Orna Raz , Marcel Zalmanovici

We introduce a new approach for decoupling trends (drift) and changepoints (shifts) in time series. Our locally adaptive model-based approach for robustly decoupling combines Bayesian trend filtering and machine learning based…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-09 Haoxuan Wu , Toryn L. J. Schafer , Sean Ryan , David S. Matteson

Better methods to detect insider threats need new anticipatory analytics to capture risky behavior prior to losing data. In search of the best overall classifier, this work empirically scores 88 machine learning algorithms in 16 major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 David Noever

Artificial intelligence techniques have achieved strong performance in classifying Windows Portable Executable (PE) malware, but their reliability often degrades under dataset shifts, leading to misclassifications with severe security…

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