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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

Short text clustering is a challenging task due to the lack of signal contained in such short texts. In this work, we propose iterative classification as a method to b o ost the clustering quality (e.g., accuracy) of short texts. Given a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Md Rashadul Hasan Rakib , Norbert Zeh , Magdalena Jankowska , Evangelos Milios

This paper presents a batch-wise density-based clustering approach for local outlier detection in massive-scale datasets. Unlike the well-known traditional algorithms, which assume that all the data is memory-resident, our proposed method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Sayyed Ahmad Naghavi Nozad , Maryam Amir Haeri , Gianluigi Folino

Outlying observations, which significantly deviate from other measurements, may distort the conclusions of data analysis. Therefore, identifying outliers is one of the important problems that should be solved to obtain reliable results.…

Computation · Statistics 2014-05-01 Soo-Heang Eo , Seung-Mo Hong , HyungJun Cho

In this paper, we present a local search-based algorithm for individually fair clustering in the presence of outliers. We consider the individual fairness definition proposed in Jung et al., which requires that each of the $n$ points in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Binita Maity , Shrutimoy Das , Anirban Dasgupta

This thesis aims to invent new approaches for making inferences with the k-means algorithm. k-means is an iterative clustering algorithm that randomly assigns k centroids, then assigns data points to the nearest centroid, and updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Alfred K. Adzika , Prudence Djagba

Out-of-distribution detection (OOD) deals with anomalous input to neural networks. In the past, specialized methods have been proposed to reject predictions on anomalous input. Similarly, it was shown that feature extraction models in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jan Diers , Christian Pigorsch

We study the problem of $k$-center clustering with outliers in arbitrary metrics and Euclidean space. Though a number of methods have been developed in the past decades, it is still quite challenging to design quality guaranteed algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Hu Ding , Haikuo Yu , Zixiu Wang

This study addresses an important gap in time series outlier detection by proposing a novel problem setting: long-term outlier prediction. Conventional methods primarily focus on immediate detection by identifying deviations from normal…

In an industrial context, the activity of sensors is recorded at a high frequency. A challenge is to automatically detect abnormal measurement behavior. Considering the sensor measures as functional data, the problem can be formulated as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Martial Amovin-Assagba , Irène Gannaz , Julien Jacques

The combination of the Internet of Things and the Edge Computing gives many opportunities to support innovative applications close to end users. Numerous devices present in both infrastructures can collect data upon which various processing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Kostas Kolomvatsos , Christos Anagnostopoulos

Constrained clustering problems generalize classical clustering formulations, e.g., $k$-median, $k$-means, by imposing additional constraints on the feasibility of clustering. There has been significant recent progress in obtaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

Impulsed noise outliers are data points that differs significantly from other observations.They are generally removed from the data set through local regression or Kalman filter algorithm.However, these methods, or their generalizations,…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-02 Bertrand Cloez , Bénédicte Fontez , Eliel González García , Isabelle Sanchez

We introduce and study the $k$-center clustering problem with set outliers, a natural and practical generalization of the classical $k$-center clustering with outliers. Instead of removing individual data points, our model allows discarding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Vaishali Surianarayanan , Neeraj Kumar , Stavros Sintos

Outlier detection can serve as an extremely important tool for researchers from a wide range of fields. From the sectors of banking and marketing to the social sciences and healthcare sectors, outlier detection techniques are very useful…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-12 Efthymios Costa , Ioanna Papatsouma

This paper considers the problem of recovering signals from compressed measurements contaminated with sparse outliers, which has arisen in many applications. In this paper, we propose a generative model neural network approach for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Jirong Yi , Anh Duc Le , Tianming Wang , Xiaodong Wu , Weiyu Xu

Identifying a set of homogeneous clusters in a heterogeneous dataset is one of the most important classes of problems in statistical modeling. In the realm of unsupervised partitional clustering, k-means is a very important algorithm for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 J. Andrew Howe

We formulate the abnormal event detection problem as an outlier detection task and we propose a two-stage algorithm based on k-means clustering and one-class Support Vector Machines (SVM) to eliminate outliers. In the feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Radu Tudor Ionescu , Sorina Smeureanu , Marius Popescu , Bogdan Alexe

This paper introduces a unified approach to cluster refinement and anomaly detection in datasets. We propose a novel algorithm that iteratively reduces the intra-cluster variance of N clusters until a global minimum is reached, yielding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Vardhan Shorewala , Shivam Shorewala

Most of existing outlier detection methods assume that the outlier factors (i.e., outlierness scoring measures) of data entities (e.g., feature values and data objects) are Independent and Identically Distributed (IID). This assumption does…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Guansong Pang , Longbing Cao , Ling Chen