Incident/false-positive split in labels.json vs. the paper (23/7 vs 25/5)
Hi Kim,
Thank you for releasing the dataset and artifacts for your NDSS 2026 paper. I'm using the evaluation set (labels.json) to evaluate an LLM-based incident response agent, and I noticed a few things I wanted to check with you.
- Incident / false-positive split:
The paper reports 25 incidents and 5 false positives, but labels.json has 23 records labeled "Yes" and 7 labeled "No" (0-indexed).
As far as I can tell, the six CIC-IDS-2017 "No" records (#0β#5) are all dated 07/03, which is the benign Monday in CIC-IDS-2017, so they look like true false positives. The remaining "No" record is #21 (CSLE-IDS-2024), which matches your prompt's definition of minor alerts that don't warrant recovery. Even if #21 were counted as an incident, that gives 24/6 at most. Could you clarify how the 25/5 split in the paper was obtained, or whether a different version of the file was used?
Source dataset per record:
The file doesn't include a source field. Based on IP ranges and log types, my mapping is: #0β#10 CIC-IDS-2017, #11β#14 CTU-Malware-2014, #15β#21 CSLE-IDS-2024, #22β#29 AIT-IDS-V2-2022. I'd appreciate it if you could confirm this.File format:
As released, the file isn't valid JSON: there are unescaped newlines inside strings, a few missing commas (e.g., before"Logs"in some records and between list items around record #24), and one record uses the key"system"instead of"System". Happy to share the exact locations if that's useful.
Thanks again for making this work available!
Hi @munals ,
Thanks for reporting this bug. 1. We did do some changes to labels.json during the experimentation phase so it is possible that we forgot to update the split in the paper. If you want to compare, I think you should use the 23/7 split. I can confirm that 2. is correct. 3. Feel free to open a PR (if HF supports it, I dont know) and I will merge it. Otherwise, I can fix the JSON errors later when I have time.
Thank you so much, Kim! That clears things up, and I'll go with the 23/7 split.
HF does support PRs, so I'll open one with the JSON fixes, just the syntax, nothing in the content changed. Happy to help since the dataset has been really useful for my work.
Thanks again for sharing it!