An Ensemble Pruning Approach to Optimize Intrusion Detection Systems Performance

• Autor(a) principal: Lucas, Thiago Jose [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Da Costa, Kelton A. Pontara [UNESP], Scherer, Rafal, Papa, Joao Paulo [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo de conferência
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SMC53654.2022.9945239; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/249410
• topic: ensemble learning; ensemble pruning; intrusion detection; stacking

Machine learning techniques have achieved promising results in detecting attacks in computer networks, particularly ensemble learning methods, improving individual classifier's performance. This work focuses on building an ensemble of classifiers to minimize the computational cost to some extent. A diversity-driven pruning method was applied to create stackings using a combination of k-Nearest Neighbors, Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, and Neural Networks, and validated on six differents datasets. An average accuracy of 99.94% and a reduction in the processing time of 97.34% are reported with heterogeneous ensembles, highlighting the robustness of the proposed approach.