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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

Outlier detection has received special attention in various fields, mainly for those dealing with machine learning and artificial intelligence. As strong outliers, anomalies are divided into the point, contextual and collective outliers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Rasoul Kiani , Amin Keshavarzi , Mahdi Bohlouli

Given an unlabeled dataset, wherein we have access only to pairwise similarities (or distances), how can we effectively (1) detect outliers, and (2) annotate/tag the outliers by type? Outlier detection has a large literature, yet we find a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Guilherme D. F. Silva , Leman Akoglu , Robson L. F. Cordeiro

Outlier detection (OD), distinguishing inliers and outliers in completely unlabeled datasets, plays a vital role in science and engineering. Although there have been many insightful OD methods, most of them require troublesome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dazhi Fu , Jicong Fan

Reliable outlier detection in high-dimensional data is crucial in modern science, yet it remains a challenging task. Traditional methods often break down in these settings due to their reliance on asymptotic behaviors with respect to sample…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-05 Seong-ho Lee , Yongho Jeon

Outlier detection is one of the most important processes taken to create good, reliable data in machine learning. The most methods of outlier detection leverage an auxiliary reconstruction task by assuming that outliers are more difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Ning Huyan , Dou Quan , Xiangrong Zhang , Xuefeng Liang , Jocelyn Chanussot , Licheng Jiao

Outlier detection algorithms typically assign an outlier score to each observation in a dataset, indicating the degree to which an observation is an outlier. However, these scores are often not comparable across algorithms and can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Philipp Röchner , Henrique O. Marques , Ricardo J. G. B. Campello , Arthur Zimek , Franz Rothlauf

There exist multiple methods to detect outliers in multivariate data in the literature, but most of them require to estimate the covariance matrix. The higher the dimension, the more complex the estimation of the matrix becoming impossible…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-01 P. Navarro-Esteban , J. A. Cuesta-Albertos

Rare data in a large-scale database are called outliers that reveal significant information in the real world. The subspace-based outlier detection is regarded as a feasible approach in very high dimensional space. However, the outliers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Zhana Bao

An outlier is an event or observation that is defined as an unusual activity, intrusion, or a suspicious data point that lies at an irregular distance from a population. The definition of an outlier event, however, is subjective and depends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Md Nazmul Kabir Sikder , Feras A. Batarseh

Outlier detection refers to the identification of anomalous samples that deviate significantly from the distribution of normal data and has been extensively studied and used in a variety of practical tasks. However, most unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Can Gao , Xiaofeng Tan , Jie Zhou , Weiping Ding , Witold Pedrycz

We propose an inlier-based outlier detection method capable of both identifying the outliers and explaining why they are outliers, by identifying the outlier-specific features. Specifically, we employ an inlier-based outlier detection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-22 Makoto Yamada , Song Liu , Samuel Kaski

Outlier detection plays an essential role in many data-driven applications to identify isolated instances that are different from the majority. While many statistical learning and data mining techniques have been used for developing more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Ninghao Liu , Donghwa Shin , Xia Hu

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Xuan-Hong Dang , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh , Ananthram Swami , Prithwish Basu

Outliers widely occur in big-data applications and may severely affect statistical estimation and inference. In this paper, a framework of outlier-resistant estimation is introduced to robustify an arbitrarily given loss function. It has a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-20 Yiyuan She , Zhifeng Wang , Jiahui Shen

This paper investigates differentially private analysis of distance-based outliers. The problem of outlier detection is to find a small number of instances that are apparently distant from the remaining instances. On the other hand, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-28 Rina Okada , Kazuto Fukuchi , Kazuya Kakizaki , Jun Sakuma

Clustering is a fundamental tool in unsupervised learning, used to group objects by distinguishing between similar and dissimilar features of a given data set. One of the most common clustering algorithms is k-means. Unfortunately, when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-17 Olga Dorabiala , J. Nathan Kutz , Aleksandr Aravkin

Outlier detection amounts to finding data points that differ significantly from the norm. Classic outlier detection methods are largely designed for single data type such as continuous or discrete. However, real world data is increasingly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-18 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

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 task of outlier detection is to find small groups of data objects that are exceptional when compared with rest large amount of data. In [38], the problem of outlier detection in categorical data is defined as an optimization problem and…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zengyou He , Xiaofei Xu , Shengchun Deng