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Living off the Analyst: Harvesting Features from Yara Rules for Malware Detection
Siddhant Gupta, Fred Lu, Andrew Barlow +5
A strategy used by malicious actors is to "live off the land," where benign systems and tools already available on a victim's systems are used and repurposed for the malicious acto…
Stabilizing Linear Passive-Aggressive Online Learning with Weighted Reservoir Sampling
Skyler Wu, Fred Lu, Edward Raff +1
Online learning methods, like the seminal Passive-Aggressive (PA) classifier, are still highly effective for high-dimensional streaming data, out-of-core processing, and other thro…
High-Dimensional Distributed Sparse Classification with Scalable Communication-Efficient Global Updates
Fred Lu, Ryan R. Curtin, Edward Raff +2
As the size of datasets used in statistical learning continues to grow, distributed training of models has attracted increasing attention. These methods partition the data and expl…
Optimizing the Optimal Weighted Average: Efficient Distributed Sparse Classification
Fred Lu, Ryan R. Curtin, Edward Raff +2
While distributed training is often viewed as a solution to optimizing linear models on increasingly large datasets, inter-machine communication costs of popular distributed approa…