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most citedFlowTransformer: A Transformer Framework for Flow-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems

206 citations · 239 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CL2026

SuPER-Mamba: Surprisal Prioritization for Extended-Context Routing in Mamba

Zhetong Zhang, Gayan K Kulatilleke

State space models provide efficient linear-complexity processing for long sequences, but their performance frequently degrades as context length grows. We propose SuPER-Mamba, a t…

cs.CL2026

T5-CSBoost: Adversarial Perturbation Resistant LLM Fingerprinting

Gayan K. Kulatilleke, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh, Siamak Layeghy +1

While many AI-generated text (AIGT) detectors achieve strong performance on clean inputs, their accuracy degrades significantly under light paraphrasing, word substitutions, charac…

cs.CR2026

MambaNetBurst: Direct Byte-level Network Traffic Classification without Tokenization or Pretraining

Gayan K. Kulatilleke, Siamak Layeghy, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh +1

We present MambaNetBurst, a compact tokenizer-free byte-level sequence classifier for network burst classification based on a Mamba-2 backbone. In contrast to most recent strong tr…

cs.LG2025★ 8 cited

Temporal Analysis of NetFlow Datasets for Network Intrusion Detection Systems

Majed Luay, Siamak Layeghy, Seyedehfaezeh Hosseininoorbin +3

This paper investigates the temporal analysis of NetFlow datasets for machine learning (ML)-based network intrusion detection systems (NIDS). Although many previous studies have hi…

cs.CV2023

Ugly Ducklings or Swans: A Tiered Quadruplet Network with Patient-Specific Mining for Improved Skin Lesion Classification

Nathasha Naranpanawa, H. Peter Soyer, Adam Mothershaw +4

An ugly duckling is an obviously different skin lesion from surrounding lesions of an individual, and the ugly duckling sign is a criterion used to aid in the diagnosis of cutaneou…

cs.CR2023★ 206 cited

FlowTransformer: A Transformer Framework for Flow-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems

Liam Daly Manocchio, Siamak Layeghy, Wai Weng Lo +3

This paper presents the FlowTransformer framework, a novel approach for implementing transformer-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs). FlowTransformer leverages the st…

cs.LG2022

NBC-Softmax : Darkweb Author fingerprinting and migration tracking

Gayan K. Kulatilleke, Shekhar S. Chandra, Marius Portmann

Metric learning aims to learn distances from the data, which enhances the performance of similarity-based algorithms. An author style detection task is a metric learning problem, w…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

DOC-NAD: A Hybrid Deep One-class Classifier for Network Anomaly Detection

Mohanad Sarhan, Gayan Kulatilleke, Wai Weng Lo +2

Machine Learning (ML) approaches have been used to enhance the detection capabilities of Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs). Recent work has achieved near-perfect performa…

cs.LG2022

Efficient block contrastive learning via parameter-free meta-node approximation

Gayan K. Kulatilleke, Marius Portmann, Shekhar S. Chandra

Contrastive learning has recently achieved remarkable success in many domains including graphs. However contrastive loss, especially for graphs, requires a large number of negative…

cs.LG2022

Empirical study of Machine Learning Classifier Evaluation Metrics behavior in Massively Imbalanced and Noisy data

Gayan K. Kulatilleke, Sugandika Samarakoon

With growing credit card transaction volumes, the fraud percentages are also rising, including overhead costs for institutions to combat and compensate victims. The use of machine…

cs.LG2022

Credit card fraud detection - Classifier selection strategy

Gayan K. Kulatilleke

Machine learning has opened up new tools for financial fraud detection. Using a sample of annotated transactions, a machine learning classification algorithm learns to detect fraud…

cs.CR2022★ 7 cited

Challenges and Complexities in Machine Learning based Credit Card Fraud Detection

Gayan K. Kulatilleke

Credit cards play an exploding role in modern economies. Its popularity and ubiquity have created a fertile ground for fraud, assisted by the cross boarder reach and instantaneous…

cs.LG2022★ 14 cited

SCGC : Self-Supervised Contrastive Graph Clustering

Gayan K. Kulatilleke, Marius Portmann, Shekhar S. Chandra

Graph clustering discovers groups or communities within networks. Deep learning methods such as autoencoders (AE) extract effective clustering and downstream representations but ca…

cs.CR2022★ 3 cited

Inspection-L: Self-Supervised GNN Node Embeddings for Money Laundering Detection in Bitcoin

Wai Weng Lo, Gayan K. Kulatilleke, Mohanad Sarhan +2

Criminals have become increasingly experienced in using cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, for money laundering. The use of cryptocurrencies can hide criminal identities and transf…

cs.LG2021

FDGATII : Fast Dynamic Graph Attention with Initial Residual and Identity Mapping

Gayan K. Kulatilleke, Marius Portmann, Ryan Ko +1

While Graph Neural Networks have gained popularity in multiple domains, graph-structured input remains a major challenge due to (a) over-smoothing, (b) noisy neighbours (heterophil…