Getting Passive Aggressive About False Positives: Patching Deployed Malware Detectors

November 2020 Edward Raff, Bobby Filar, James Holt IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW) 2020

How do you fix a malware classifier that’s already in the field, without retraining from scratch and without breaking previously-correct decisions? We apply the Passive-Aggressive algorithm to incrementally patch deployed detectors against newly-discovered false positives.

IEEE ICDMW 2020