Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are crucial for protecting digital infrastructures from cyber threats.
ODXU, a Neurosymbolic AI framework, enhances NIDS robustness, interpretability, and generalization by integrating deep embedded clustering, symbolic reasoning with XGBoost, and uncertainty quantification (UQ).
ODXU outperforms traditional neural models in various evaluation metrics based on experimental results on the CIC-IDS-2017 dataset.
A transfer learning strategy is developed to reuse a pre-trained ODXU model on a different dataset, showing improved performance with minimal training samples.