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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2021
Avast Software S.r.o., Prague, CZ;
Tomas Pevny, Prague, CZ;
Gen Digital Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
A malware classification system provides improved confidence in explanations of neural network classification outputs using methods such as weighting or masking when training the neural network to train the network on a sample resembling or including the explanation. The explanation in some examples comprises a subset of a hierarchical input vector that is responsible for the neural network's classification output. In another example the neural network has an inner portion configured to reduce the weight of elements of the output not significantly contributing to the explanation of the output, such as by reducing the weight of as many such outputs to zero as is practical in generating the desired output.