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Explainability matters for cybersecurity: The paper demonstrates that intrusion detection systems (IDS) used to protect critical networks need to provide clear, auditable explanations for their decisions—not just accurate predictions. Traditional AI systems that simply say "this is an attack" without showing why are insufficient for mission-critical applications where analysts need to understand and verify the system's reasoning.
Multi-layered analysis improves both accuracy and transparency: The Multi-Granular Discretization approach achieves a 4+ percentage point improvement in precision on the UKM-IDS20 dataset while maintaining near-perfect recall (≈1.0), proving that you don't have to choose between having a more accurate system and having one that's easier to understand and audit.
Interpretable models can work with limited training data: The Interpretable Generalization mechanism performs well even when trained on only 10% of available data across multiple benchmark datasets (NSL-KDD, UNSW-NB15, UKM-IDS20), suggesting that transparent AI systems may be more data-efficient than opaque alternatives—an important consideration for organizations with limited labeled security data.
One model can work across different network environments: The system demonstrates consistent performance across multiple datasets without requiring custom tuning for each network, meaning organizations could potentially deploy a single interpretable model across different domains rather than building separate systems for each environment.

Abstract

Explainable intrusion detection systems (IDS) are now recognized as essential for mission-critical networks, yet most "XAI" pipelines still bolt an approximate explainer onto an opaque classifier, leaving analysts with partial and sometimes misleading insights. The Interpretable Generalization (IG) mechanism, published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, eliminates that bottleneck by learning coherent patterns - feature combinations unique to benign or malicious traffic - and turning them into fully auditable rules. IG already delivers outstanding precision, recall, and AUC on NSL-KDD, UNSW-NB15, and UKM-IDS20, even when trained on only 10% of the data. To raise precision further without sacrificing transparency, we introduce Multi-Granular Discretization (IG-MD), which represents every continuous feature at several Gaussian-based resolutions. On UKM-IDS20, IG-MD lifts precision by greater than or equal to 4 percentage points across all nine train-test splits while preserving recall approximately equal to 1.0, demonstrating that a single interpretation-ready model can scale across domains without bespoke tuning.

ACM CCS 2025 (Submitted)

Key Takeaways

Explainability matters for cybersecurity: The paper demonstrates that intrusion detection systems (IDS) used to protect critical networks need to provide clear, auditable explanations for their decisions—not just accurate predictions. Traditional AI systems that simply say "this is an attack" without showing why are insufficient for mission-critical applications where analysts need to understand and verify the system's reasoning.
Multi-layered analysis improves both accuracy and transparency: The Multi-Granular Discretization approach achieves a 4+ percentage point improvement in precision on the UKM-IDS20 dataset while maintaining near-perfect recall (≈1.0), proving that you don't have to choose between having a more accurate system and having one that's easier to understand and audit.
Interpretable models can work with limited training data: The Interpretable Generalization mechanism performs well even when trained on only 10% of available data across multiple benchmark datasets (NSL-KDD, UNSW-NB15, UKM-IDS20), suggesting that transparent AI systems may be more data-efficient than opaque alternatives—an important consideration for organizations with limited labeled security data.
One model can work across different network environments: The system demonstrates consistent performance across multiple datasets without requiring custom tuning for each network, meaning organizations could potentially deploy a single interpretable model across different domains rather than building separate systems for each environment.

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ACM CCS 2025 (Submitted)

Multi-Granular Discretization for Interpretable Generalization in Precise Cyberattack Identification

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Multi-Granular Discretization for Interpretable Generalization in Precise Cyberattack Identification

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