Generative Active Adaptation for Drifting and Imbalanced Network Intrusion Detection
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| author | Gupta, Ragini Liu, Shinan Zhang, Ruixiao Hu, Xinyue Wang, Xiaoyang Benkraouda, Hadjer Kommaraju, Pranav Cao, Phuong Feamster, Nick Nahrstedt, Klara |
| author_facet | Gupta, Ragini Liu, Shinan Zhang, Ruixiao Hu, Xinyue Wang, Xiaoyang Benkraouda, Hadjer Kommaraju, Pranav Cao, Phuong Feamster, Nick Nahrstedt, Klara |
| contents | Machine learning has shown promise in network intrusion detection systems, yet its performance often degrades due to concept drift and imbalanced data. These challenges are compounded by the labor-intensive process of labeling network traffic, especially when dealing with evolving and rare attack types, which makes preparing the right data for adaptation difficult. To address these issues, we propose a generative active adaptation framework that minimizes labeling effort while enhancing model robustness. Our approach employs density-aware dataset prior selection to identify the most informative samples for annotation, and leverages deep generative models to conditionally synthesize diverse samples, thereby augmenting the training set and mitigating the effects of concept drift. We evaluate our end-to-end framework \NetGuard on both simulated IDS data and a real-world ISP dataset, demonstrating significant improvements in intrusion detection performance. Our method boosts the overall F1-score from 0.60 (without adaptation) to 0.86. Rare attacks such as Infiltration, Web Attack, and FTP-BruteForce, which originally achieved F1 scores of 0.001, 0.04, and 0.00, improve to 0.30, 0.50, and 0.71, respectively, with generative active adaptation in the CIC-IDS 2018 dataset. Our framework effectively enhances rare attack detection while reducing labeling costs, making it a scalable and practical solution for intrusion detection. |
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| spellingShingle | Generative Active Adaptation for Drifting and Imbalanced Network Intrusion Detection Gupta, Ragini Liu, Shinan Zhang, Ruixiao Hu, Xinyue Wang, Xiaoyang Benkraouda, Hadjer Kommaraju, Pranav Cao, Phuong Feamster, Nick Nahrstedt, Klara Networking and Internet Architecture Cryptography and Security Machine Learning Machine learning has shown promise in network intrusion detection systems, yet its performance often degrades due to concept drift and imbalanced data. These challenges are compounded by the labor-intensive process of labeling network traffic, especially when dealing with evolving and rare attack types, which makes preparing the right data for adaptation difficult. To address these issues, we propose a generative active adaptation framework that minimizes labeling effort while enhancing model robustness. Our approach employs density-aware dataset prior selection to identify the most informative samples for annotation, and leverages deep generative models to conditionally synthesize diverse samples, thereby augmenting the training set and mitigating the effects of concept drift. We evaluate our end-to-end framework \NetGuard on both simulated IDS data and a real-world ISP dataset, demonstrating significant improvements in intrusion detection performance. Our method boosts the overall F1-score from 0.60 (without adaptation) to 0.86. Rare attacks such as Infiltration, Web Attack, and FTP-BruteForce, which originally achieved F1 scores of 0.001, 0.04, and 0.00, improve to 0.30, 0.50, and 0.71, respectively, with generative active adaptation in the CIC-IDS 2018 dataset. Our framework effectively enhances rare attack detection while reducing labeling costs, making it a scalable and practical solution for intrusion detection. |
| title | Generative Active Adaptation for Drifting and Imbalanced Network Intrusion Detection |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture Cryptography and Security Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03022 |