Evaluating the Robustness and Transferable Adversarial Example Resistance of Multimodal Learning-based Intrusion Detection Systems against Evasion Attacks

Duy The Phan Cao The Thuan Q. Doan Hao Thi Hoang Truong Trung Minh Doan Nghi Hoang Khoa Van-Hau Pham

Aug 2026 · Journal on spesial topics in mobile networks and applications · Vol 31, pp. 287 - 305 · 0 citations · 40 references

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This study evaluates the robustness of multimodal learning-based IDS against transferable adversarial examples (AEs) generated by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and integrates adversarial training techniques to enhance the IDS’s capability to identify attack patterns with small perturbations.

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