Whetstones: Measuring Coevolution Between Adaptive Malware and Behavioral Defense

arXiv:2608.00745 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-01

Updated: 2026-09-11

Comments: 29 pages, 8 figures

Code: https://github.com/aquasecurity/tracee

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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• Perplexity — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Representation Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Credit assignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adversarial Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Amortization — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Contrastive Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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