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most citedA Transformer-Based Framework for Payload Malware Detection and Classification

1 citations · 1 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.AI2026

LSA-PAST: Layer-Specific Adaptation and Prototype Transport for Compositional Incremental Learning

Kyle Stein, Andrew Arash Mahyari, Guillermo Francia +2

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) enables models to recognize new classes over time while retaining prior knowledge, but many real-world problems are compositional, where visual con…

cs.CR2026

Temporal and Multimodal Deep Learning for Cyberattack Detection in LEO Satellite Systems

Kyle Stein, Guillermo Francia, Eman El-Sheikh +1

The growing reliance on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems has increased the need for intelligent methods capable of detecting cyberattacks across complex and dy…

cs.CR2026

Adapter-Based Few-Shot Continual Learning for Malicious Packet Recognition

Kyle Stein, Guillermo Francia, III Eman El-Sheikh +1

The continual evolution of malware variants necessitates detection systems that can adapt to new threats without retraining from scratch. However, continually updating models on ne…

cs.CV2025

Proactive Disentangled Modeling of Trigger-Object Pairings for Backdoor Defense

Kyle Stein, Andrew A. Mahyari, Guillermo Francia +1

Deep neural networks (DNNs) and generative AI (GenAI) are increasingly vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries embed triggers into inputs to cause models to misclassify o…

cs.CV2025

Transductive One-Shot Learning Meet Subspace Decomposition

Kyle Stein, Andrew A. Mahyari, Guillermo Francia +1

One-shot learning focuses on adapting pretrained models to recognize newly introduced and unseen classes based on a single labeled image. While variations of few-shot and zero-shot…

cs.CV2025

Adaptive Additive Parameter Updates of Vision Transformers for Few-Shot Continual Learning

Kyle Stein, Andrew Arash Mahyari, Guillermo Francia +1

Integrating new class information without losing previously acquired knowledge remains a central challenge in artificial intelligence, often referred to as catastrophic forgetting.…

cs.CV2025

Visual Adaptive Prompting for Compositional Zero-Shot Learning

Kyle Stein, Arash Mahyari, Guillermo Francia +1

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive multimodal capabilities in learning joint representations of visual and textual data, making them powerful tools for task…

cs.CV2024

Proactive Adversarial Defense: Harnessing Prompt Tuning in Vision-Language Models to Detect Unseen Backdoored Images

Kyle Stein, Andrew Arash Mahyari, Guillermo Francia +1

Backdoor attacks pose a critical threat by embedding hidden triggers into inputs, causing models to misclassify them into target labels. While extensive research has focused on mit…

cs.CR2024

Towards Novel Malicious Packet Recognition: A Few-Shot Learning Approach

Kyle Stein, Andrew A. Mahyari, Guillermo Francia +1

As the complexity and connectivity of networks increase, the need for novel malware detection approaches becomes imperative. Traditional security defenses are becoming less effecti…

cs.CR2024

Packet Inspection Transformer: A Self-Supervised Journey to Unseen Malware Detection with Few Samples

Kyle Stein, Arash Mahyari, Guillermo Francia +1

As networks continue to expand and become more interconnected, the need for novel malware detection methods becomes more pronounced. Traditional security measures are increasingly…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

A Transformer-Based Framework for Payload Malware Detection and Classification

Kyle Stein, Arash Mahyari, Guillermo Francia +1

As malicious cyber threats become more sophisticated in breaching computer networks, the need for effective intrusion detection systems (IDSs) becomes crucial. Techniques such as D…