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Anomaly detection consists in identifying, within a dataset, those samples that significantly differ from the majority of the data, representing the normal class. It has many practical applications, e.g. ranging from defective product…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Pankaj Mishra , Claudio Piciarelli , Gian Luca Foresti

Secure and reliable data communication in optical networks is critical for high-speed internet. We propose a data driven approach for the anomaly detection and faults identification in optical networks to diagnose physical attacks such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Khouloud Abdelli , Joo Yeon Cho , Carsten Tropschug

In the authors' opinion, anomaly detection systems, or ADS, seem to be the most perspective direction in the subject of attack detection, because these systems can detect, among others, the unknown (zero-day) attacks. To detect anomalies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Yuri Monakhov , Oleg Nikitin , Anna Kuznetsova , Alexey Kharlamov , Alexandr Amochkin

Due to the veracity and heterogeneity in network traffic, detecting anomalous events is challenging. The computational load on global servers is a significant challenge in terms of efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Our primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 William Marfo , Deepak K. Tosh , Shirley V. Moore

The increasing digitization of smart grids has made addressing cybersecurity issues crucial in order to secure the power supply. Anomaly detection has emerged as a key technology for cybersecurity in smart grids, enabling the detection of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Ömer Sen , Simon Glomb , Martin Henze , Andreas Ulbig

Anomaly detection in time series is a complex task that has been widely studied. In recent years, the ability of unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms has received much attention. This trend has led researchers to compare only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Julien Audibert , Pietro Michiardi , Frédéric Guyard , Sébastien Marti , Maria A. Zuluaga

The sophistication and diversity of contemporary cyberattacks have rendered the use of proxies, gateways, firewalls, and encrypted tunnels as a standalone defensive strategy inadequate. Consequently, the proactive identification of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Liyang Wang , Yu Cheng , Hao Gong , Jiacheng Hu , Xirui Tang , Iris Li

Graph-level anomaly detection has become a critical topic in diverse areas, such as financial fraud detection and detecting anomalous activities in social networks. While most research has focused on anomaly detection for visual data such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Chen Qiu , Marius Kloft , Stephan Mandt , Maja Rudolph

Anomaly detection is widely used to distinguish system anomalies by analyzing the temporal and spatial features of wireless sensor network (WSN) data streams; it is one of critical technique that ensures the reliability of WSNs. Currently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qinghao Zhang , Miao Ye , Hongbing Qiu , Yong Wang , Xiaofang Deng

The complexity and ubiquity of modern computing systems is a fertile ground for anomalies, including security and privacy breaches. In this paper, we propose a new methodology that addresses the practical challenges to implement anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Charles F. Gonçalves , Daniel S. Menasché , Alberto Avritzer , Nuno Antunes , Marco Vieira

Detecting Domain Name System (DNS) tunneling is a significant challenge in security due to its capacity to hide harmful actions within DNS traffic that appears to be normal and legitimate. Traditional detection methods are based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Novruz Amirov , Baran Isik , Bilal Ihsan Tuncer , Serif Bahtiyar

We present a series of algorithms in tensor networks for anomaly detection in datasets, by using data compression in a Tensor Train representation. These algorithms consist of preserving the structure of normal data in compression and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Alejandro Mata Ali , Aitor Moreno Fdez. de Leceta , Jorge López Rubio

Anomaly detection is a crucial step for preventing malicious activities in the network and keeping resources available all the time for legitimate users. It is noticed from various studies that classical anomaly detectors work well with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Awais Ahmed , Sufian Hameed , Muhammad Rafi , Qublai Khan Ali Mirza

The shift to smart grids has made electrical power systems more vulnerable to sophisticated cyber threats. To protect these systems, holistic security measures that encompass preventive, detective, and reactive components are required, even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Omer Sen , Mehdi Akbari Gurabi , Milan Deruelle , Andreas Ulbig , Stefan Decker

Motivated by the recent surge of criminal activities with cross-cryptocurrency trades, we introduce a new topological perspective to structural anomaly detection in dynamic multilayer networks. We postulate that anomalies in the underlying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Dorcas Ofori-Boateng , Ignacio Segovia Dominguez , Murat Kantarcioglu , Cuneyt G. Akcora , Yulia R. Gel

Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs is essential for identifying malicious activities, fraud, and unexpected behaviors in real-world systems such as cybersecurity and power grids. However, existing approaches struggle with scalability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ocheme Anthony Ekle , William Eberle

The rapid advancement of machine learning technologies raises questions about the security of machine learning models, with respect to both training-time (poisoning) and test-time (evasion, impersonation, and inversion) attacks. Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xinheng Xie , Kureha Yamaguchi , Margaux Leblanc , Simon Malzard , Varun Chhabra , Victoria Nockles , Yue Wu

In the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are exposed to various kinds of attacks when connected to the Internet. An attack detection mechanism that understands the limitations of these severely resource-constrained devices is necessary. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Nidhi Rastogi , James Hendler

Given a stream of entries in a multi-aspect data setting i.e., entries having multiple dimensions, how can we detect anomalous activities in an unsupervised manner? For example, in the intrusion detection setting, existing work seeks to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Siddharth Bhatia , Arjit Jain , Pan Li , Ritesh Kumar , Bryan Hooi

Detecting anomalies in traffic scenes is crucial for ensuring safety in autonomous driving, yet collecting representative anomalous data remains challenging. Existing anomaly detection methods are highly specialized and rely on normality as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Albert Schotschneider , Daniel Bogdoll , Svetlana Pavlitska , Ahmed Abouelazm , Johann Marius Zoellner