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Table 7 Performance comparison of the proposed system with previous methods

From: Android malware category detection using a novel feature vector-based machine learning model

Existing methods

Accuracy

Precision

Recall

F1-score

Method used

Martin et al. (2018)

0.761

0.755

0.76

0.755

CNN + Markov chains

Martin et al. (2018)

0.818

0.807

0.818

0.802

RF + Markov chains

Arindaam Roy. et al. (2020)

0.887

0.895

0.819

0.855

SVM + Feature aggregation

Nicheporuk et al. (2020)

0.933

0.938

0.937

0.938

CNN + word2vec technology-based Feature vectorization

Samaneh et al. (2022)

0.982

0.982

0.982

0.982

Semi-supervised DNNs

Hashem A. El Fiky et al. (2021)

0.9689

Not available

0.6646

Not available

RF

Proposed Method

0.9870

0.987

0.987

0.987

RF + Huffman encoding-based Feature Vector Generation

  1. RF-Random Forest, SVM-Support Vector Machine, CNN-Convolutional Neural Networks, DNN-Deep Neural Networks