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A feature-efficient hierarchical classification strategy for malicious URL detection

Jul 2026 · Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques · Vol 22 · 0 citations · 51 references
Computer Science

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A hierarchical binary classification framework that decomposes the multiclass task into a sequence of structured binary decisions and provides competitive and feature-efficient classification performance is proposed.

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