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We revisit the outlier hypothesis testing framework of Li \emph{et al.} (TIT 2014) and derive fundamental limits for the optimal test. In outlier hypothesis testing, one is given multiple observed sequences, where most sequences are…

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This paper considers the problem of testing whether there exists a non-negative solution to a possibly under-determined system of linear equations with known coefficients. This hypothesis testing problem arises naturally in a number of…

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We present a novel approach to anomaly detection by integrating Generalized Hyperbolic (GH) processes into kernel-based methods. The GH distribution, known for its flexibility in modeling skewness, heavy tails, and kurtosis, helps to…

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Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) log events and traces of activities during the execution of a process. Anomalies are defined as deviation or departure from the normal or common order. Anomaly detection in business process logs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Ashish Sureka

In this paper we introduce a kernel-based measure for detecting differences between two conditional distributions. Using the `kernel trick' and nearest-neighbor graphs, we propose a consistent estimate of this measure which can be computed…

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This work presents AEGIS, a novel mixed-signal framework for real-time anomaly detection by examining sensor stream statistics. AEGIS utilizes Kernel Density Estimation (KDE)-based non-parametric density estimation to generate a real-time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Ahish Shylendra , Priyesh Shukla , Saibal Mukhopadhyay , Swarup Bhunia , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

Monitoring of networks for anomaly detection has attracted a lot of attention in recent years especially with the rise of connected devices and social networks. This is of importance as anomaly detection could span a wide range of…

Applications · Statistics 2019-05-08 Tomilayo Komolafe , A. Valeria Quevedo , Srijan Sengupta , William H. Woodall

We propose a novel method to detect and date structural breaks in the entire distribution of functional data. Theoretical guarantees are developed for our procedure under fewer assumptions than in the existing work. In particular, we…

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Comparing conditional distributions is a fundamental challenge in statistics and machine learning, with applications across a wide range of domains. While proposed methods for measuring discrepancies using kernel embeddings of distributions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-05 Peter Moskvichev , Siu Lun Chau , Dino Sejdinovic

Nonparametric feature selection in high-dimensional data is an important and challenging problem in statistics and machine learning fields. Most of the existing methods for feature selection focus on parametric or additive models which may…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-31 Hang Yu , Yuanjia Wang , Donglin Zeng

It is well known that nonparametric regression estimation and inference procedures are subject to the curse of dimensionality. Moreover, model interpretability usually decreases with the data dimension. Therefore, model-free variable…

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We propose a non-parametric anomaly detection algorithm for high dimensional data. We first rank scores derived from nearest neighbor graphs on $n$-point nominal training data. We then train limited complexity models to imitate these scores…

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Signal detection in environments with unknown signal bandwidth and time intervals is a fundamental problem in adversarial and spectrum-sharing scenarios. This paper addresses the problem of detecting signals occupying unknown degrees of…

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The problem of sequential anomaly detection is considered, where multiple data sources are monitored in real time and the goal is to identify the "anomalous" ones among them, when it is not possible to sample all sources at all times. A…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Aristomenis Tsopelakos , Georgios Fellouris

This work views neural networks as data generating systems and applies anomalous pattern detection techniques on that data in order to detect when a network is processing an anomalous input. Detecting anomalies is a critical component for…

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Detecting a small number of outliers from a set of data observations is always challenging. This problem is more difficult in the setting of multiple network samples, where computing the anomalous degree of a network sample is generally not…

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Nonparametric regression is a standard statistical tool with increased importance in the Big Data era. Boundary points pose additional difficulties but local polynomial regression can be used to alleviate them. Local linear regression, for…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2017-04-04 Srinjoy Das , Dimitris N. Politis

Nonparametric two-sample tests such as the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) are often used to detect differences between two distributions in machine learning applications. However, the majority of existing literature assumes that error-free…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-08 Ron Nafshi , Maggie Makar

Anomalies are samples that significantly deviate from the rest of the data and their detection plays a major role in building machine learning models that can be reliably used in applications such as data-driven design and novelty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-19 Amin Yousefpour , Mehdi Shishehbor , Zahra Zanjani Foumani , Ramin Bostanabad

We propose a new one-sample test for normality in a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS). Namely, we test the null-hypothesis of belonging to a given family of Gaussian distributions. Hence our procedure may be applied either to test…

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