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We explore the connection between outlier-robust high-dimensional statistics and non-convex optimization in the presence of sparsity constraints, with a focus on the fundamental tasks of robust sparse mean estimation and robust sparse PCA.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yu Cheng , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rong Ge , Shivam Gupta , Daniel M. Kane , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

This work describes an outlier detection procedure (named "OutlierTree") loosely based on the GritBot software developed by RuleQuest research, which works by evaluating and following supervised decision tree splits on variables, in whose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-06 David Cortes

Outlier detection is a technique in data mining that aims to detect unusual or unexpected records in the dataset. Existing outlier detection algorithms have different pros and cons and exhibit different sensitivity to noisy data such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yuanyuan Wei , Julian Jang-Jaccard , Fariza Sabrina , Timothy McIntosh

Matrix-variate distributions are a recent addition to the model-based clustering field, thereby making it possible to analyze data in matrix form with complex structure such as images and time series. Due to its recent appearance, there is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-04 Katharine M. Clark , Paul D. McNicholas

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) to detect samples with large expected errors (outliers) is applied to reactive molecular potential energy surfaces (PESs). Three methods - Ensembles, Deep Evidential Regression (DER), and Gaussian Mixture…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Luis Itza Vazquez-Salazar , Silvan Käser , Markus Meuwly

We propose thresholding as an approach to deal with class imbalance. We define the concept of thresholding as a process of determining a decision boundary in the presence of a tunable parameter. The threshold is the maximum value of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Charmgil Hong , Rumi Ghosh , Soundar Srinivasan

Real-world deployment of reliable object detectors is crucial for applications such as autonomous driving. However, general-purpose object detectors like Faster R-CNN are prone to providing overconfident predictions for outlier objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Nishant Kumar , Siniša Šegvić , Abouzar Eslami , Stefan Gumhold

Handling outliers is a fundamental challenge in multivariate data analysis because outliers may distort the structures of correlation or conditional independence. Although robust Bayesian inference has been extensively studied in univariate…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-27 Yasuyuki Hamura , Kaoru Irie , Shonosuke Sugasawa

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular dimension reduction technique for vector data. Factored PCA (FPCA) is a probabilistic extension of PCA for matrix data, which can substantially reduce the number of parameters in PCA while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-19 Xuan Ma , Jianhua Zhao , Yue Wang

The detection of outliers is of critical importance in the assurance of data quality. Outliers may exist in observed data or in data derived from these observed data, such as estimates and forecasts. An outlier may indicate a problem with…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-23 Charles D. Coleman , Thomas Bryan

Sparse estimation methods capable of tolerating outliers have been broadly investigated in the last decade. We contribute to this research considering high-dimensional regression problems contaminated by multiple mean-shift outliers which…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-21 Luca Insolia , Ana Kenney , Francesca Chiaromonte , Giovanni Felici

This paper considers the problem of clustering a collection of unlabeled data points assumed to lie near a union of lower-dimensional planes. As is common in computer vision or unsupervised learning applications, we do not know in advance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Emmanuel J. Candés

Recent methods for learning a linear subspace from data corrupted by outliers are based on convex $\ell_1$ and nuclear norm optimization and require the dimension of the subspace and the number of outliers to be sufficiently small. In sharp…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Zhihui Zhu , Yifan Wang , Daniel P. Robinson , Daniel Q. Naiman , Rene Vidal , Manolis C. Tsakiris

Disease control experts inspect public health data streams daily for outliers worth investigating, like those corresponding to data quality issues or disease outbreaks. However, they can only examine a few of the thousands of maximally-tied…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Ananya Joshi , Tina Townes , Nolan Gormley , Luke Neureiter , Roni Rosenfeld , Bryan Wilder

Outlier detection in high-dimensional data is a challenging yet important task, as it has applications in, e.g., fraud detection and quality control. State-of-the-art density-based algorithms perform well because they 1) take the local…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Bas van Stein , Matthijs van Leeuwen , Thomas Bäck

Ensemble methods for classification and clustering have been effectively used for decades, while ensemble learning for outlier detection has only been studied recently. In this work, we design a new ensemble approach for outlier detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Shebuti Rayana , Wen Zhong , Leman Akoglu

We propose a novel Bayesian optimisation procedure for outlier detection in the Capital Asset Pricing Model. We use a parametric product partition model to robustly estimate the systematic risk of an asset. We assume that the returns follow…

Applications · Statistics 2011-11-18 Maria Elena De Giuli , Mario Alessandro Maggi , Claudia Tarantola

This paper presents a fast methodology, called ROBOUT, to identify outliers in a response variable conditional on a set of linearly related predictors, retrieved from a large granular dataset. ROBOUT is shown to be effective and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-27 Matteo Farnè , Angelos Vouldis

In many applications, when building linear regression models, it is important to account for the presence of outliers, i.e., corrupted input data points. Such problems can be formulated as mixed-integer optimization problems involving cubic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Andrés Gómez , José Neto

We study a novel outlier detection problem that aims to identify abnormal input-output associations in data, whose instances consist of multi-dimensional input (context) and output (responses) pairs. We present our approach that works by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Charmgil Hong , Siqi Liu , Milos Hauskrecht