X-WAD: eXplainable Web Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2608.27172 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-08-27 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-27

Updated: 2026-08-27

Code: https://github.com/mattebit/x-wad

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

Terminology

Explainability — 21× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Transformer — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
F1 Score — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Interpretability — 5× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
Verification — 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
Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
False Negative Rate — 2× in this paper
Feature Extraction — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
Causal Language Modeling — 1× in this paper
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
False Positive Rate — 1× in this paper
Feature Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Loss Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Masked Language Modeling — 1× in this paper
Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Positive Predictive Value — 1× in this paper
Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Shapley values — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Transformer Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
True Positive Rate — 1× in this paper

X-WAD: eXplainable Web Anomaly Detection

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