Title
Detection under Privileged Information.
Abstract
For well over a quarter century, detection systems have been driven by models learned from input features collected from real or simulated environments. An artifact (e.g., network event, potential malware sample, suspicious email) is deemed malicious or non-malicious based on its similarity to the learned model at runtime. However, the training of the models has been historically limited to only those features available at runtime. In this paper, we consider an alternate learning approach that trains models using privileged information--features available at training time but not at runtime--to improve the accuracy and resilience of detection systems. In particular, we adapt and extend recent advances in knowledge transfer, model influence, and distillation to enable the use of forensic or other data unavailable at runtime in a range of security domains. An empirical evaluation shows that privileged information increases precision and recall over a system with no privileged information: we observe up to 7.7% relative decrease in detection error for fast-flux bot detection, 8.6% for malware traffic detection, 7.3% for malware classification, and 16.9% for face recognition. We explore the limitations and applications of different privileged information techniques in detection systems. Such techniques provide a new means for detection systems to learn from data that would otherwise not be available at runtime.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3196494.3196502
AsiaCCS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Detection systems, privileged information, machine learning
Psychological resilience,Facial recognition system,Computer security,Computer science,Precision and recall,Knowledge transfer,Artificial intelligence,Train,Malware,Machine learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5576-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Z. Berkay Celik185143.59
P. McDaniel27174494.57
Rauf Izmailov320036.96
Nicolas Papernot4193287.62
Ryan Sheatsley500.34
Raquel Alvarez600.34
Swami, A.75105566.62