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Behavioral Grammar: Tiny Language Model Detects Adaptive Malware

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Researchers have developed a novel malware detection system called Behavioral Grammar, which utilizes a compact 0.88M-parameter causal Transformer model named TinyGPT. This system treats host runtime behavior as a structured language, discretizing system events into an 8-token representation. By learning the patterns of normal behavior in a self-supervised manner, Behavioral Grammar derives anomaly scores from negative log-likelihood statistics, aiming for a mathematically bounded false-positive rate. The system was tested against an Adaptive Adversarial Agent (AAA), achieving a 93% detection rate with a 3.84% false-positive rate, with the coefficient of variation of inter-event intervals proving to be a key discriminative signal. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more robust and auditable malware detection systems, shifting the cost of evasion towards defenders.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zihan Luo ·

    Behavioral Grammar: Detecting Adaptive Malware via Tiny Language Model Priors and Second-Order Temporal Analysis

    arXiv:2608.00745v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern endpoint detection systems face a fundamental tension: signature-based approaches are trivially evaded by polymorphic or adaptive threats, while heavy deep-learning models resist auditability and deployment at scale. This…

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