arXiv:2607. 13203v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: False alarms remain a major barrier to deploying network intrusion detection systems (NIDS).
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arXiv:2606. 09934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feature selection is critical for network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) operating under high-dimensional, highly imbalanced traffic, as found in operational and defense networks.
arXiv:2609.36039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) have dominated Intrusion Detection System (IDS) research in recent years. Unfortunately, many existing s...
The paper investigates how to properly validate candidate models before promoting them to replace incumbent classifiers in adaptive network intrusion detection systems. It demonstrates that promotion decisions can be biased by how challengers are constructed and the amount of evidence they receive, and that using self‑contained challenger pipelines and sufficient candidate evidence reduces apparent promotion harm. The study also shows that policy rankings shift with candidate comparability and that no single update policy dominates across benchmarks.
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.
JEV-IDS is an open experimental general network intrusion detection system that uses the Jev System One Model to detect zero‑day intrusions even when labeled data are scarce. The system processes one flow per request and asks the model two questions: a binary attack probability and a finite‑choice traffic category. In tests on a 300‑flow NSL‑KDD pilot split, JEV-IDS achieved an F1‑score of 0.859, precision of 0.941, recall of 0.790, and a novel‑attack recall of 0.838, while being 4.8 times faster and 3.8 times cheaper than GPT‑5.6 Luna and producing 15 times fewer false alarms than a low‑data Random Forest.
The paper investigates how privacy guarantees, robustness to Byzantine attacks, and detection coverage for rare intrusion types interact in federated network intrusion detection systems. It introduces geometric indistinguishability to explain how privacy noise can obscure minority-class signals, and demonstrates through experiments on UNSW‑NB15 that combining differential privacy with robust aggregation can disproportionately harm detection of rare attacks. The study highlights that these properties cannot be treated as independently composable and calls for aggregation‑aware modeling and sample‑aware evaluation to build trustworthy federated NIDS.