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This work presents a novel modeling and analysis framework for graph sequences which addresses the challenge of detecting and contextualizing anomalies in labelled, streaming graph data. We introduce a generalization of the BTER model of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Robert A. Bridges , John Collins , Erik M. Ferragut , Jason Laska , Blair D. Sullivan

Analysis and anomaly detection in event tensor streams consisting of timestamps and multiple attributes - such as communication logs(time, IP address, packet length)- are essential tasks in data mining. While existing tensor decomposition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Soshi Kakio , Yasuko Matsubara , Ren Fujiwara , Yasushi Sakurai

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

Anomaly detection methods are part of the systems where rare events may endanger an operation's profitability, safety, and environmental aspects. Although many state-of-the-art anomaly detection methods were developed to date, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Marek Wadinger , Michal Kvasnica

In collaborative outlier detection, multiple participants exchange their local detectors trained on decentralized devices without exchanging their own data. A key problem of collaborative outlier detection is efficiently aggregating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kitty Li , Ninh Pham

Event datasets in the financial domain are often constructed based on actual application scenarios, and their event types are weakly reusable due to scenario constraints; at the same time, the massive and diverse new financial big data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Dianyue Gu , Zixu Li , Zhenhai Guan , Rui Zhang , Lan Huang

Concerning machine learning, segmentation models can identify state changes within time series, facilitating the detection of transitions between normal and anomalous conditions. Specific techniques such as Change Point Detection (CPD),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Emilio Mastriani , Alessandro Costa , Federico Incardona , Kevin Munari , Sebastiano Spinello

A sensor network is considered where at each sensor a sequence of random variables is observed. At each time step, a processed version of the observations is transmitted from the sensors to a common node called the fusion center. At some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Taposh Banerjee , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Social event detection refers to extracting relevant message clusters from social media data streams to represent specific events in the real world. Social event detection is important in numerous areas, such as opinion analysis, social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Zhiwei Yang , Yuecen Wei , Haoran Li , Qian Li , Lei Jiang , Li Sun , Xiaoyan Yu , Chunming Hu , Hao Peng

Ensemble learning is a process by which multiple base learners are strategically generated and combined into one composite learner. There are two features that are essential to an ensemble's performance, the individual accuracies of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Wenjing Li , Randy C. Paffenroth , David Berthiaume

The motivation of this work is to improve the performance of standard stacking approaches or ensembles, which are composed of simple, heterogeneous base models, through the integration of the generation and selection stages for regression…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-31 Roberto Aldave , Jean-Pierre Dussault

Ensembling is a simple and popular technique for boosting evaluation performance by training multiple models (e.g., with different initializations) and aggregating their predictions. This approach is commonly reserved for the largest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Dan Kondratyuk , Mingxing Tan , Matthew Brown , Boqing Gong

Complex networks have now become integral parts of modern information infrastructures. This paper proposes a user-centric method for detecting anomalies in heterogeneous information networks, in which nodes and/or edges might be from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Vahid Ranjbar , Mostafa Salehi , Pegah Jandaghi , Mahdi Jalili

In this study, we introduce a new approach to combine multi-classifiers in an ensemble system. Instead of using numeric membership values encountered in fixed combining rules, we construct interval membership values associated with each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Tien Thanh Nguyen , Xuan Cuong Pham , Alan Wee-Chung Liew , Witold Pedrycz

Anomaly event detection is crucial for critical infrastructure security(transportation system, social-ecological sector, insurance service, government sector etc.) due to its ability to reveal and address the potential cyber-threats in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yipeng Ji , Jingyi Wang , Shaoning Li , Yangyang Li , Shenwen Lin , Xiong Li

This paper proposes a structure-aware driven scheduling graph modeling method to improve the accuracy and representation capability of anomaly identification in scheduling behaviors of complex systems. The method first designs a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ning Lyu , Junjie Jiang , Lu Chang , Chihui Shao , Feng Chen , Chong Zhang

This paper develops a flexible distribution-free method for collective outlier detection and enumeration, designed for situations in which the presence of outliers can be detected powerfully even though their precise identification may be…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Chiara G. Magnani , Matteo Sesia , Aldo Solari

In this paper, we propose a novel method, aggregation cross-entropy (ACE), for sequence recognition from a brand new perspective. The ACE loss function exhibits competitive performance to CTC and the attention mechanism, with much quicker…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Zecheng Xie , Yaoxiong Huang , Yuanzhi Zhu , Lianwen Jin , Yuliang Liu , Lele Xie

Temporal graphs have become an essential tool for analyzing complex dynamic systems with multiple agents. Detecting anomalies in temporal graphs is crucial for various applications, including identifying emerging trends, monitoring network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Teddy Lazebnik , Or Iny

Detection of anomalies among a large number of processes is a fundamental task that has been studied in multiple research areas, with diverse applications spanning from spectrum access to cyber-security. Anomalous events are characterized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Benjamin Wolff , Tomer Gafni , Guy Revach , Nir Shlezinger , Kobi Cohen