150764 20251017144650.0 doi 10.1016/j.future.2025.107707 sideral 142883 ART-2025-142883 eng Ruiz-Villafranca, Sergio WFE-Tab: Overcoming limitations of TabPFN in IIoT-MEC environments with a weighted fusion ensemble-TabPFN model for improved IDS performance 2025 In recent years we have seen the emergence of new industrial paradigms such as Industry 4.0/5.0 or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). As the use of these new paradigms continues to grow, so do the number of threats and exploits that they face, which makes the IIoT a desirable target for cybercriminals. Furthermore, IIoT devices possess inherent limitations, primarily due to their limited resources. As a result, it is often impossible to detect attacks using solutions designed for other environments. Recently, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) based on Machine Learning (ML) have emerged as a solution that takes advantage of the large amount of data generated by IIoT devices to implement their functionality and achieve good performance, and the inclusion of the Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) paradigm in these environments provides the necessary computational resources to deploy IDS effectively. Furthermore, TabPFN has been considered as an attractive option for solving classification problems without the need to reprocess the data. However, TabPFN has certain drawbacks when it comes to the number of training samples and the maximum number of different classes that the model is capable of classifying. This makes TabPFN unsuitable for use when the dataset exceeds one of these limitations. In order to overcome such limitations, this paper presents a Weighted Fusion-Ensemble-based TabPFN (WFE-Tab) model to improve IDS performance in IIoT-MEC scenarios. The presented study employs a novel weighted fusion method to preprocess data into multiple subsets, generating different ensemble family TabPFN models. The resulting WFE-Tab model comprises four stages: data collection, data preprocessing, model training, and model evaluation. The performance of the WFE-Tab method is evaluated using key metrics such as Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F1-Score, and validated using the Edge-IIoTset public dataset. The performance of the method is then compared with baseline and modern methods to evaluate its effectiveness, achieving an F1-Score performance of 99.81%. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T21-23R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-123627OB-C52 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EUR/MICINN/TED2021-131115A-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2022-142332OA-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Roldán-Gómez, José Universidad de Zaragoza Carrillo-Mondéjar, Javier Universidad de Zaragoza Martinez, José Luis Gañán, Carlos H. 5007 570 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms. Área Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf. 166 (2025), 107707 [15 pp] Future gener. comput. syst. Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Grid Computing Theory Methods and Applications 0167-739X 1410330 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150764/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2027-01-18 2565110 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150764/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2027-01-18 oai:zaguan.unizar.es:150764 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:36:04 ARTICLE