arXiv Machine Learning

DeepWeave: Weaving Neural and Symbolic Evidence for ML-Based Network Intrusion Detection System

DeepWeave is a neuro‑symbolic network intrusion detection system that integrates logic rules with neural predictions to provide interpretable, probabilistic evidence for alerts. It automatically generates and validates rules, couples evidence across packet, flow, and hybrid views, and produces proofs that explain rule‑supported detections. In experiments, DeepWeave achieves higher macro‑F1 scores and lower false‑positive rates than a purely neural baseline, even with only 50 labeled packets per attack class, and its explanations are more stable than post‑hoc neural attributions.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 13

Dueling Deep Q-Learning for Intrusion Detection

arXiv:2608. 11291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intrusion detection systems (IDS) and automated systems for detecting and reporting cyber threats, are commonly handled via supervised machine learning methods.

By Logan Luna (Georgia Institute of Technology), Matthew P. Berkowitz (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Laxima Niure Kandel (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Sirio Jansen-S'anchez (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
arXiv AI
Aug 17

Interactive Analysis of Global Explanations using Aggregated Class Activation Maps for Network Data

arXiv:2608. 13575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent machine learning (ML) advances have demonstrated that deep learning (DL) achieves impressive results in different application domains, including the classification of computer network traffic to corresponding applications.

By Igor Cherepanov, David Sessler, Alex Ulmer, Felix Wagner, Throsten May, J\"orn Kohlhammer
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 29

Probabilistic Robustness-driven Universal Adversarial Perturbations with Explainability against Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Intrusion Detection System

The paper introduces a new method for generating universal adversarial perturbations (UAPs) against deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based intrusion detection systems (IDS). It leverages Probabilistic Robustness (PR) as a post‑hoc metric to guide UAP creation, integrating PR directly into the optimization objective. The authors further develop PX‑UAP, which incorporates explainable AI (XAI) to shape perturbations within realistic domain constraints, and provide a theoretical analysis of its design. Experiments show PX‑UAP outperforms existing UAP techniques in attack effectiveness.

By Hongsen Zhang, Lu Zhang, Mingjing Xu, Yi Zhang, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple