Utilizing Autoencoder to Improve the Robustness of Intrusion Detection Systems Against Adversarial Attacks
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Due to the escalating utilization of communication networks and the prevailing occurrence of cyber attacks, intrusion detection systems (IDSs) have emerged as imperative components in network security. Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) based IDSs have gained popularity due to their detection capability and adaptability. However, this type of schemes are susceptible to adversarial attacks, which involve minor perturbations to attack features causing misclassification. Autoencoders (AEs) have proven effective in mitigating adversarial attacks in computer vision, but their capacity for enhancing IDSs remains relatively unexplored. In this paper, we focus on the use of AEs to detect adversarial network flows. Specifically, we propose an AE-enhanced IDS (AE-IDS) that leverages the power of AEs to improve the robustness of IDSs against adversarial attacks. Our experimental results indicate that AE-IDS outperforms the baseline schemes under investigation in terms of accuracy and detection rate. We believe that AE-IDS showcases the potential of using AEs to enhance the robustness of IDSs, providing improved security against sophisticated and evolving cyber threats.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".