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The one-class classification problem is a well-known research endeavor in pattern recognition. The problem is also known under different names, such as outlier and novelty/anomaly detection. The core of the problem consists in modeling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Lorenzo Livi , Alireza Sadeghian , Witold Pedrycz

In the realm of unsupervised image outlier detection, assigning outlier scores holds greater significance than its subsequent task: thresholding for predicting labels. This is because determining the optimal threshold on non-separable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zhonghang Liu , Panzhong Lu , Guoyang Xie , Zhichao Lu , Wen-Yan Lin

Outlier explanation is the task of identifying a set of features that distinguish a sample from normal data, which is important for downstream (human) decision-making. Existing methods are based on beam search in the space of feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Stefan Lüdtke , Christian Bartelt , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Anomalies are strange data points; they usually represent an unusual occurrence. Anomaly detection is presented from the perspective of Wireless sensor networks. Different approaches have been taken in the past, as we will see, not only to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Pelumi Oluwasanya

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

Normality, in the colloquial sense, has historically been considered an aspirational trait, synonymous with ideality. The arithmetic average and, by extension, statistics including linear regression coefficients, have often been used to…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-27 Matthew J. Vowels

We introduce and develop a novel approach to outlier detection based on adaptation of random subspace learning. Our proposed method handles both high-dimension low-sample size and traditional low-dimensional high-sample size datasets.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-05 Bohan Liu , Ernest Fokoue

Deviations from the average can provide valuable insights about the organization of natural systems. This article extends this important principle to the more systematic identification and analysis of singular local connectivity patterns in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Luciano da F. Costa , Marcus Kaiser , Claus Hilgetag

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

This study concerns the issue of high dimensional outliers which are challenging to distinguish from inliers due to the special structure of high dimensional space. We introduce a new notion of high dimensional outliers that embraces…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Hyo Young Choi , J. S. Marron

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is an important task in machine learning systems for ensuring their reliability and safety. Deep probabilistic generative models facilitate OOD detection by estimating the likelihood of a data sample.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jaemoo Choi , Changyeon Yoon , Jeongwoo Bae , Myungjoo Kang

Detecting test data deviating from training data is a central problem for safe and robust machine learning. Likelihoods learned by a generative model, e.g., a normalizing flow via standard log-likelihood training, perform poorly as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Robert Schmier , Ullrich Köthe , Christoph-Nikolas Straehle

In statistics and machine learning, the traditional meaning of the terms `outlier' and `anomaly' is a case in the dataset that behaves differently from the bulk of the data. This raises suspicion that it may belong to a different…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-17 Mia Hubert , Jakob Raymaekers , Peter J. Rousseeuw

It is important to detect anomalous inputs when deploying machine learning systems. The use of larger and more complex inputs in deep learning magnifies the difficulty of distinguishing between anomalous and in-distribution examples. At the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Dan Hendrycks , Mantas Mazeika , Thomas Dietterich

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

Unsupervised outlier detection constitutes a crucial phase within data analysis and remains a dynamic realm of research. A good outlier detection algorithm should be computationally efficient, robust to tuning parameter selection, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-23 Sheikh Arafat , Na Sun , Maria L. Weese , Waldyn G. Martinez

Anomaly detection aims at identifying images that deviate significantly from the norm. We focus on algorithms that embed the normal training examples in space and when given a test image, detect anomalies based on the features distance to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Ori Nizan , Ayellet Tal

Rejecting outliers before applying classical robust methods is a common approach to increase the success rate of estimation, particularly when the outlier ratio is extremely high (e.g. 90%). However, this method often relies on sensor- or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiayi Su , Shaofeng Zou , Jingyu Qian , Yan Wei , Fengzhong Qu , Liuqing Yang

Many traditional methods for identifying changepoints can struggle in the presence of outliers, or when the noise is heavy-tailed. Often they will infer additional changepoints in order to fit the outliers. To overcome this problem, data…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-12 Paul Fearnhead , Guillem Rigaill

We present in this paper a new tool for outliers detection in the context of multiple regression models. This graphical tool is based on recursive estimation of the parameters. Simulations were carried out to illustrate the performance of…

Methodology · Statistics 2007-07-03 Christian Paroissin