Optimizing Cyber Defense in Dynamic Active Directories Through Reinforcement Learning

D Goel, K Moore, M Guo, D Wang, M Kim… - … on Research in …, 2024 - Springer
This paper addresses a significant gap in Autonomous Cyber Operations (ACO) literature:
the absence of effective edge-blocking ACO strategies in dynamic, real-world networks. It …

Hardening Active Directory Graphs via Evolutionary Diversity Optimization based Policies

D Goel, M Ward, A Neumann, F Neumann… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Active Directory (AD) is the default security management system for Windows domain
networks. An AD environment can be described as a cyber-attack graph, with nodes …

Guiding Quality Diversity on Monotone Submodular Functions: Customising the Feature Space by Adding Boolean Conjunctions

M Schmidbauer, A Opris, J Bossek… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Quality Diversity (QD) aims to evolve a population of solutions that are both diverse and of
high quality. The Map-Elites QD approach partitions the search space according to a feature …

Local Optima in Diversity Optimization: Non-trivial Offspring Population is Essential

D Antipov, A Neumann, F Neumann - International Conference on Parallel …, 2024 - Springer
The main goal of diversity optimization is to find a diverse set of solutions which satisfy some
lower bound on their fitness. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are often used for such tasks …

Runtime Analysis of Evolutionary Diversity Optimization on a Tri-Objective Version of the (LeadingOnes, TrailingZeros) Problem

D Antipov, A Neumann, F Neumann… - … Conference on Parallel …, 2024 - Springer
Diversity optimization is a class of optimization problems in which we aim to find a diverse
set of good solutions. One of the frequently used approaches to solve such problems is to …

Runtime Analysis of Evolutionary Diversity Optimization on the Multi-objective (LeadingOnes, TrailingZeros) Problem

D Antipov, A Neumann, FN Sutton… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The diversity optimization is the class of optimization problems, in which we aim at finding a
diverse set of good solutions. One of the frequently used approaches to solve such problems …

Evolutionary Diversity Optimisation for Combinatorial Problems

A Nikfarjam - 2023 - digital.library.adelaide.edu.au
Diversity optimisation explores a variety of solutions for the intended problem and is rapidly
growing and getting more popular within the evolutionary computation community as a …