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Course Name Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Course Code 21SN634
Program M. Tech. in Cyber Security Systems & Networks
Semester Elective
Credits 3

Overview

Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Scikit-Learn. Mathematics review: derivatives, gradients, sums, products. Supervised learning: Linear regression, Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, K-nearest neighbors, random forests, adaboost, gradient boosting, multi layer perceptrons, logistic regression. Unsupervised learning: k-means
clustering, dbscan, GMM, PCA, ICA, T-SNE. Bias-variance tradeoff. Learning and validation curves. Cross validation, shuffle split, k-fold, time-series split. Random seeds. Baseline and benchmarking models. Gradient descent, regularization, feature scaling, one hot encoding, label encoding. Train-test-split. Metrics: accuracy, f1-score, precision, recall, confusion matrices. Gini impurity, information gain ration, feature ranking with multivariate and univariate methods. Hyper-parameter tuning with gridsearch and random search, bayesian optimization. Natural language processing, ngrams, bag of words, vectorizers. Pipelines in scikit- learn to avoid overfitting. Data wrangling with feature preprocessing and EDA. Machine learning for security – anomaly detection, fraud detection, malware detection, spam detection, phishing detection, IDS, and NIDS. Security of machine learning: adversarial attacks on machine learning. Data poisoning, model stealing, evasion attacks at inference time. Adversarial hardening.

Text Books and references

  1. Tom M Mitchell, Machine Learning, McGraw Hill, 1997
  2. Jake Vanderplas, Python Data Science Handbook, O’Reilly Media, 2016

Course Outcomes

  • CO1. Learn and understand what Machine learning is, including all the tools of the trade. Understand that linear algebra powers most ML.
  • CO2. Supervised learning, requirement for labeled data, using a loss function to guide the optimization
  • CO3. Learn the fundamentals of regression, using linear regression, decision trees. Difference between continuous outcomes and discrete, including appropriate metrics
  • CO4. Fundamentals of classification, decision trees, logistic regression, SVM’s. Neural networks. Appropriate metrics
  • CO5. Model validation and evaluation. Gain the skill of plotting both learning curves and model evaluation curves. Ascertain whether more complexity is required or more data.
  • CO6. Dimensionality reduction and clustering. Understanding PCA, and k-means clustering.
  • CO7. Learn to conduct anomaly detection, spam classification, automated malware classification. Security oriented machine learning tasks.
  • CO8. Threat modeling for machine learning, understanding adversarial attacks on vision and text. Commonly known defenses, dangers of

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