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

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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.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…