arXiv Machine Learning

BARS: Benign-Anchored Ranking and Selection for False Alarm Reduction in Network Intrusion Detection

arXiv:2607. 13203v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: False alarms remain a major barrier to deploying network intrusion detection systems (NIDS).

arXiv AI
Jun 30

Multi-Level Distributional Entropy for Explainable Network Intrusion Detection

arXiv:2606. 29797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning network intrusion detection systems (IDS) rely on aggregate flow statistics that discard distributional structure, while established entropy measures require raw packet sequences unavailable in pre-aggregated flow datasets.

By Mohamed Aly Bouke, Md Shohel Sayeed, Swee-Huay Heng, Azizol Abdullah, Mohamed Othman
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

Multi-Level Distributional Entropy for Explainable Network Intrusion Detection

Machine learning network intrusion detection systems (IDS) rely on aggregate flow statistics that discard distributional structure, while established entropy measures require raw packet sequences unavailable in pre-aggregated flow datasets. We propose Multi-Level Distributional Entropy (MDE), an analytical framework that derives interpretable entropy features directly from flow-level summary statistics at three levels: within-flow Gaussian differential entropy, cross-directional Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD), and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) flag-pattern Shannon entropy, without raw packet access or training data.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

SHIELD-IDS: Structurally Heterogeneous Ensemble with Integrated Layered Defense for Intrusion Detection Systems

arXiv:2606. 07716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial attacks pose a serious and growing threat to Machine Learning (ML)-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), where imperceptible perturbations to network flow features can systematically mislead classifiers into accepting malicious traffic as benign.

By Maryam Zaman, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

CALIBURN: Operationally Calibrated Streaming Intrusion Detection with Regime-Dependent Conformal Risk Control

arXiv:2605. 24696v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Streaming intrusion detection systems must process flows continuously under bounded memory, yet most leave alerting-threshold selection as a post-hoc tuning problem incompatible with production, where operators commit in advance to alert budgets, misclassification costs, and Service Level Objectives.

By Michel A. Youssef
arXiv AI
Jun 3

FlowGuard: Flow Matching for Identity-Independent Detection of Data-Free Model Stealing Attacks on Energy System Intrusion Detection Systems

arXiv:2606. 03430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) deployed in energy infrastructure are vulnerable to model theft attacks, which allow adversaries to create evasive traffic offline.

By Maxime Schwarzer, Laurin Holz, Tobias Huerten, Johannes Loevenich, Thies Moehlenhof, Roberto Rigolin F. Lopes, Veit Hagenmeyer
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

Do Transformers Actually Help Intrusion Detection? A Temporal Sequence Evaluation on CIC-IDS2017

arXiv:2606. 11098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent deep learning approaches for network intrusion detection increasingly incorporate temporal architectures such as recurrent networks and Transformers, often reporting near-perfect performance on CIC-IDS2017.

By Zach Moczkodan (Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Canada), Hany Ragab (Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Canada)