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        <article-title>Enhanced Nonlinear Mapping for Intrusion Detection Systems: Leveraging Adaptive Multi-Kernel </article-title>
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          <surname>Chintada</surname>
          <given-names>Srinivasarao</given-names>
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        <month>10</month>
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      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>109</fpage>
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          <month>10</month>
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        <copyright-statement>Copyright &#169; 2026 Srinivasarao Chintada. Published by Felix Academic Publications.</copyright-statement>
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        <copyright-holder>Srinivasarao Chintada</copyright-holder>
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        <p>Modern Enterprise Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) encounter significant operational hurdles due to the high-dimensional, non-linear, and varied nature of network traffic produced by advanced cyber threats. Conventional kernel classifiers, such as standard Support Vector Machines (SVMs), depend on a single static kernel, which constrains feature transformation to a single homogeneous Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS). As a result, these single-kernel architectures exhibit elevated False Alarm Rates (FAR) and lower detection performance when confronted with complex feature overlap or previously unseen zero-day attacks. To overcome these limitations, this study introduces an Adaptive Multi-Kernel Fusion (AMKF) framework that dynamically refines non-linear mapping for network anomaly detection. The proposed architecture constructs an adaptable composite kernel space combining Gaussian RBF, Polynomial, and Laplacian kernels, optimizing their respective weight coefficients via semi-definite convex optimization based on local manifold properties. Experimental validation on the UNSW-NB15 and CICIDS2017 benchmark datasets demonstrates that the AMKF framework reaches a 99.42% overall accuracy, a 99.15% Detection Rate (DR), and minimizes the False Alarm Rate to 0.48%, outperforming traditional single-kernel models and deep neural networks in both execution efficiency and model interpretability.</p>
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      <p>Modern Enterprise Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) encounter significant operational hurdles due to the high-dimensional, non-linear, and varied nature of network traffic produced by advanced cyber threats. Conventional kernel classifiers, such as standard Support Vector Machines (SVMs), depend on a single static kernel, which constrains feature transformation to a single homogeneous Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS). As a result, these single-kernel architectures exhibit elevated False Alarm Rates (FAR) and lower detection performance when confronted with complex feature overlap or previously unseen zero-day attacks. To overcome these limitations, this study introduces an Adaptive Multi-Kernel Fusion (AMKF) framework that dynamically refines non-linear mapping for network anomaly detection. The proposed architecture constructs an adaptable composite kernel space combining Gaussian RBF, Polynomial, and Laplacian kernels, optimizing their respective weight coefficients via semi-definite convex optimization based on local manifold properties. Experimental validation on the UNSW-NB15 and CICIDS2017 benchmark datasets demonstrates that the AMKF framework reaches a 99.42% overall accuracy, a 99.15% Detection Rate (DR), and minimizes the False Alarm Rate to 0.48%, outperforming traditional single-kernel models and deep neural networks in both execution efficiency and model interpretability.</p>
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      <sec sec-type="funding"><title>Funding</title><p>This research received no external funding or commercial grants.</p></sec>
      <sec sec-type="conflict-of-interest"><title>Conflict of Interest</title><p>The authors declare that there are no competing financial or personal interests related to this work.</p></sec>
      <sec sec-type="ethical-approval"><title>Ethical Approval</title><p>Not applicable. This study did not involve human participants, animal subjects, or sensitive clinical data.</p></sec>
      <sec sec-type="data-availability"><title>Data Availability</title><p>The datasets generated during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.</p></sec>
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