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Machine Learning (ML) can be incredibly valuable to automate anomaly detection and cyber-attack classification, improving the way that Network Intrusion Detection (NID) is performed. However, despite the benefits of ML models, they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-27 João Vitorino , Isabel Praça , Eva Maia

The holy grail of networking is to create \textit{cognitive networks} that organize, manage, and drive themselves. Such a vision now seems attainable thanks in large part to the progress in the field of machine learning (ML), which has now…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Muhammad Usama , Junaid Qadir , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Mounir Hamdi

Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) built on artificial intelligence (AI) are presented as latent mechanisms for actively detecting fresh attacks over a complex network. Although review papers are used the systematic review or simple methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ziadoon K. Maseer , Robiah Yusof , Baidaa Al-Bander , Abdu Saif , Qusay Kanaan Kadhim

This survey systematizes the evolution of network intrusion detection systems (NIDS), from conventional methods such as signature-based and neural network (NN)-based approaches to recent integrations with large language models (LLMs). It…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yaokai Feng , Kouichi Sakurai

The performance of machine learning based network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) severely degrades when deployed on a network with significantly different feature distributions from the ones of the training dataset. In various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Siamak Layeghy , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Marius Portmann

The escalation of hazards to safety and hijacking of digital networks are among the strongest perilous difficulties that must be addressed in the present day. Numerous safety procedures were set up to track and recognize any illicit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Sudhanshu Sekhar Tripathy , Bichitrananda Behera

The expansion of edge computing has increased the attack surface, creating an urgent need for robust, real-time machine learning (ML)-based host intrusion detection systems (HIDS) that balance accuracy and efficiency. In such settings,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Onat Gungor , Ishaan Kale , Jiasheng Zhou , Tajana Rosing

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are notoriously vulnerable to adversarial attacks that place carefully crafted perturbations on normal examples to fool DNNs. To better understand such attacks, a characterization of the features carried by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Rui Zheng , Yuhao Zhou , Zhiheng Xi , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Neural networks have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in various machine learning fields. However, the introduction of malicious perturbations in input data, known as adversarial examples, has been shown to deceive neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Dennis Y. Menn , Tzu-hsun Feng , Hung-yi Lee

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples, which are crafted maliciously by modifying the inputs with imperceptible perturbations to misled the network produce incorrect outputs, reveals the lack of robustness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Lina Wang , Xingshu Chen , Yulong Wang , Yawei Yue , Yi Zhu , Xuemei Zeng , Wei Wang

The incremental diffusion of machine learning algorithms in supporting cybersecurity is creating novel defensive opportunities but also new types of risks. Multiple researches have shown that machine learning methods are vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Andreolini , Luca Ferretti , Mirco Marchetti , Michele Colajanni

Despite significant advances, deep networks remain highly susceptible to adversarial attack. One fundamental challenge is that small input perturbations can often produce large movements in the network's final-layer feature space. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Dravyansh Sharma , Hongyang Zhang

Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) with supervised Machine Learning (ML) is tough. ML-NIDS must be trained and evaluated, operations requiring data where benign and malicious samples are clearly labelled. Such labels…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Giovanni Apruzzese , Luca Pajola , Mauro Conti

Recent benchmark efforts have advanced the evaluation of large language models (LLMs) in cybersecurity, including tasks such as penetration testing and vulnerability identification. However, a critical cybersecurity task, namely intrusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Danyu Sun , Jinghuai Zhang , Yuan Tian , Zhou Li

Adversarial attacks add perturbations to the input features with the intent of changing the classification produced by a machine learning system. Small perturbations can yield adversarial examples which are misclassified despite being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Rakshit Agrawal , Luca de Alfaro , David Helmbold

Machine learning and deep learning in particular has advanced tremendously on perceptual tasks in recent years. However, it remains vulnerable against adversarial perturbations of the input that have been crafted specifically to fool the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-22 Jan Hendrik Metzen , Tim Genewein , Volker Fischer , Bastian Bischoff

Multi-Instance Learning (MIL) is a recent machine learning paradigm which is immensely useful in various real-life applications, like image analysis, video anomaly detection, text classification, etc. It is well known that most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yu-Xuan Zhang , Hua Meng , Xue-Mei Cao , Zhengchun Zhou , Mei Yang , Avik Ranjan Adhikary

Network security is a critical concern in the digital landscape of today, with users demanding secure browsing experiences and protection of their personal data. This study explores the dynamic integration of Machine Learning (ML)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Pablo Benlloch , Oscar Romero , Antonio Leon , Jaime Lloret

Most research using machine learning (ML) for network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) uses well-established datasets such as KDD-CUP99, NSL-KDD, UNSW-NB15, and CICIDS-2017. In this context, the possibilities of machine learning…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various tasks, yet they remain vulnerable to adversarial manipulations such as jailbreaking via prompt injection attacks. These attacks bypass safety mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xin Wei Chia , Swee Liang Wong , Jonathan Pan