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We propose an anomaly detection method for multi-variate scientific data based on analysis of high-order joint moments. Using kurtosis as a reliable measure of outliers, we suggest that principal kurtosis vectors, by analogy to principal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Konduri Aditya , Hemanth Kolla , W. Philip Kegelmeyer , Timothy M. Shead , Julia Ling , Warren L. Davis

In critical applications of anomaly detection including computer security and fraud prevention, the anomaly detector must be configurable by the analyst to minimize the effort on false positives. One important way to configure the anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Shubhomoy Das , Md Rakibul Islam , Nitthilan Kannappan Jayakodi , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Anomaly detection is a challenging task for machine learning algorithms due to the inherent class imbalance. It is costly and time-demanding to manually analyse the observed data, thus usually only few known anomalies if any are available.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 J. -P. Schulze , P. Sperl , K. Böttinger

The ongoing quest to discover new phenomena at the LHC necessitates the continuous development of algorithms and technologies. Established approaches like machine learning, along with emerging technologies such as quantum computing show…

Successful operation of large particle detectors like the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider requires rapid, in-depth assessment of data quality. We introduce the ``AutoDQM'' system for Automated Data Quality…

In this paper, we consider the problem of conditional anomaly detection that aims to identify data instances with an unusual response or a class label. We develop a new non-parametric approach for conditional anomaly detection based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Michal Valko , Branislav Kveton , Hamed Valizadegan , Gregory F. Cooper , Milos Hauskrecht

Anomaly detection with convolutional autoencoders is a popular method to search for new physics in a model-agnostic manner. These techniques are powerful, but they are still a "black box," since we do not know what high-level physical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-13 Layne Bradshaw , Spencer Chang , Bryan Ostdiek

The standard model (SM) of particle physics represents a theoretical paradigm for the description of the fundamental forces of nature. Despite its broad applicability, the SM does not enable the description of all physically possible…

Anomaly detection is the process of finding data points that deviate from a baseline. In a real-life setting, anomalies are usually unknown or extremely rare. Moreover, the detection must be accomplished in a timely manner or the risk of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Mariem Ben Fadhel , Kofi Nyarko

Life insurance, like other forms of insurance, relies heavily on large volumes of data. The business model is based on an exchange where companies receive payments in return for the promise to provide coverage in case of an accident. Thus,…

Applications · Statistics 2024-11-27 Andreas Groll , Akshat Khanna , Leonid Zeldin

Due to the growing amount of data from in-situ sensors in wastewater systems, it becomes necessary to automatically identify abnormal behaviours and ensure high data quality. This paper proposes an anomaly detection method based on a deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Stefania Russo , Andy Disch , Frank Blumensaat , Kris Villez

We present a new subspace-based method to construct probabilistic models for high-dimensional data and highlight its use in anomaly detection. The approach is based on a statistical estimation of probability density using densities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Cetin Savkli , Catherine Schwartz

Unsupervised anomaly detection models which are trained solely by healthy data, have gained importance in the recent years, as the annotation of medical data is a tedious task. Autoencoders and generative adversarial networks are the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Marc Dietrichstein , David Major , Martin Trapp , Maria Wimmer , Dimitrios Lenis , Philip Winter , Astrid Berg , Theresa Neubauer , Katja Bühler

Timely detection of concerning events is an important problem in clinical practice. In this paper, we consider the problem of conditional anomaly detection that aims to identify data instances with an unusual response, such as the omission…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Michal Valko , Hamed Valizadegan , Branislav Kveton , Gregory F. Cooper , Milos Hauskrecht

We investigate a method of model-agnostic anomaly detection through studying jets, collimated sprays of particles produced in high-energy collisions. We train a transformer neural network to encode simulated QCD "event space" dijets into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Barry M. Dillon , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

This paper presents an automatic method for data classification in nuclear physics experiments based on evolutionary computing and vector quantization. The major novelties of our approach are the fully automatic mechanism and the use of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-12-02 D. Dell'Aquila , M. Russo

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying abnormal instances or events in data sets which deviate from the norm significantly. In this study, we propose a signatures based machine learning algorithm to detect rare or unexpected items…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-02-09 Erdinc Akyildirim , Matteo Gambara , Josef Teichmann , Syang Zhou

Anomaly driving detection is an important problem in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). It is important to identify potential hazard scenarios as early as possible to avoid potential accidents. This study proposes an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yuning Qiu , Teruhisa Misu , Carlos Busso

Model-agnostic anomaly detection is one of the promising approaches in the search for new beyond the standard model physics. In this paper, we present Set-VAE, a particle-based variational autoencoder (VAE) anomaly detection algorithm. We…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-30 Ryan Liu , Abhijith Gandrakota , Jennifer Ngadiuba , Maria Spiropulu , Jean-Roch Vlimant

We present a machine learning-based anomaly detection strategy designed to identify anomalous physics in events containing resonant Standard Model physics and demonstrate this method on the final state of a Higgs boson decaying to two…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-20 Chi Lung Cheng , Sarah Demers , Sascha Diefenbacher , Runze Li , Benjamin Nachman , Dennis Noll