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An explainable, resource-efficient transformer-based IDS with adaptive agent routing

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Çaǧdaş Özer
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Zeynep Orman *
DOI:10.1007/s10586-026-06495-xdelete
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Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) must detect increasingly diverse cyber threats while operating under strict computational and latency constraints. Although Transformer-based models capture long-range dependencies in network traffic effectively, their deployment in real-time security environments remains limited by the quadratic cost of dense self-attention, the scarcity of labeled attack data, and the need for interpretable predictions. This study proposes an explainable and resource-efficient Transformer-based IDS framework that integrates hybrid sparse attention, mixed-precision training, adaptive agent routing, and a multi-stage auto-labeling strategy. The proposed architecture combines Reformer-style locality-sensitive hashing attention, a fixed local attention window, and a small set of global tokens to reduce computational overhead while preserving short- and long-range traffic dependencies. A lightweight adaptive agent routes high-confidence flows to specialized sub-models, whereas uncertain samples are processed through an auto-labeling pipeline that includes self-training, consistency regularization, MixMatch, adversarial training, and a co-training variant. Experimental results on standard intrusion detection benchmarks show that the proposed framework improves detection performance under limited-label conditions while reducing training time, memory usage, and inference latency relative to dense-attention baselines. In addition, SHAP-based explanations provide global, class-wise, and instance-level interpretability, supporting analyst trust and post hoc security auditing. The findings indicate that the proposed framework offers a practical balance among detection accuracy, computational efficiency, and explainability, making it suitable for deployment in resource-constrained and real-time network security environments.
Keyword:
Intrusion detection systems
Transformer-based IDS
Sparse attention
Adaptive agent routing
Semi-supervised learning
Auto-labeling
SHAP explainability

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Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications
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Department of Computer Engineering
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