3 papers
cs.CR2026
Building Better Environments for Autonomous Cyber Defence
Chris Hicks, Elizabeth Bates, Shae McFadden +12
In November 2025, the authors ran a workshop on the topic of what makes a good reinforcement learning (RL) environment for autonomous cyber defence (ACD). This paper details the kn…
cs.LG2025
An Attentive Graph Agent for Topology-Adaptive Cyber Defence
Ilya Orson Sandoval, Isaac Symes Thompson, Vasilios Mavroudis +1
As cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated, reinforcement learning (RL) is emerging as a promising technique to create intelligent and adaptive cyber defense systems. However…
cs.LG2025
Entity-based Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Cyber Defence
Isaac Symes Thompson, Alberto Caron, Chris Hicks +1
A significant challenge for autonomous cyber defence is ensuring a defensive agent's ability to generalise across diverse network topologies and configurations. This capability is…