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cs.CR2019
A New Burrows Wheeler Transform Markov Distance
Edward Raff, Charles Nicholas, Mark McLean
Prior work inspired by compression algorithms has described how the Burrows Wheeler Transform can be used to create a distance measure for bioinformatics problems. We describe issu…
cs.CR2019
KiloGrams: Very Large N-Grams for Malware Classification
Edward Raff, William Fleming, Richard Zak +4
N-grams have been a common tool for information retrieval and machine learning applications for decades. In nearly all previous works, only a few values of are tested, with $n…
cs.CR2018
Static Malware Detection & Subterfuge: Quantifying the Robustness of Machine Learning and Current Anti-Virus
William Fleshman, Edward Raff, Richard Zak +2
As machine-learning (ML) based systems for malware detection become more prevalent, it becomes necessary to quantify the benefits compared to the more traditional anti-virus (AV) s…