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Thesis research program

Dendroaspis: Efficient On-Device Behavioral Anomaly Detection on Kernel Telemetry with Selective State-Space Models

A distributed behavioral anomaly-detection study in which lightweight host-level state-space models learn normal endpoint behavior and escalate only suspicious sequences for broader reasoning.

This portal tracks the current plan, weekly progress, architecture decisions, risks, and experiments for the thesis program.

Current phaseTelemetry design and validation
Current sprintSPR-0005 · Telemetry Collection Design
Next milestoneSPR-0006 — Entity / Experiment Design

Immediate priority

Telemetry Collection Design

Finalize and validate the thesis telemetry collection contract across Tracks A, B, and C before experiment entities are provisioned and baseline collection begins.

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Research agenda

Research questions

RQ1

Which self-supervised objective best captures host-behavioral anomalies on a causal, on-device backbone?

RQ2

What is the minimal, transferable feature encoding, and which discriminative axes carry the attack signal?

RQ3

Does fusing independent discriminative axes improve detection and raise the mimicry floor?

RQ4

How far does a host-trained agent transfer to a different host?