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Given a long list of anomaly detection algorithms developed in the last few decades, how do they perform with regard to (i) varying levels of supervision, (ii) different types of anomalies, and (iii) noisy and corrupted data? In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Songqiao Han , Xiyang Hu , Hailiang Huang , Mingqi Jiang , Yue Zhao

Unsupervised anomaly detection is a challenging task. Autoencoders (AEs) or generative models are often employed to model the data distribution of normal inputs and subsequently identify anomalous, out-of-distribution inputs by high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yalin Liao , Austin J. Brockmeier

Anomaly detection is important in many real-life applications. Recently, self-supervised learning has greatly helped deep anomaly detection by recognizing several geometric transformations. However these methods lack finer features, usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Loic Jezequel , Ngoc-Son Vu , Jean Beaudet , Aymeric Histace

This study introduces SECODA, a novel general-purpose unsupervised non-parametric anomaly detection algorithm for datasets containing continuous and categorical attributes. The method is guaranteed to identify cases with unique or sparse…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Ralph Foorthuis

Ever growing volume and velocity of data coupled with decreasing attention span of end users underscore the critical need for real-time analytics. In this regard, anomaly detection plays a key role as an application as well as a means to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-16 Dhruv Choudhary , Arun Kejariwal , Francois Orsini

Time-series anomaly detection, which detects errors and failures in a workflow, is one of the most important topics in real-world applications. The purpose of time-series anomaly detection is to reduce potential damages or losses. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Jinsung Jeon , Jaehyeon Park , Sewon Park , Jeongwhan Choi , Minjung Kim , Noseong Park

Traditional anomaly detection methods aim to identify objects that deviate from most other objects by treating all features equally. In contrast, contextual anomaly detection methods aim to detect objects that deviate from other objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Zhong Li , Matthijs van Leeuwen

We consider the sequential anomaly detection problem in the one-class setting when only the anomalous sequences are available and propose an adversarial sequential detector by solving a minimax problem to find an optimal detector against…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-07 Shixiang Zhu , Henry Shaowu Yuchi , Minghe Zhang , Yao Xie

Anomaly detection to recognize unusual events in large scale systems in a time sensitive manner is critical in many industries, eg. bank fraud, enterprise systems, medical alerts, etc. Large-scale systems often grow in size and complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Srishti Mishra , Tvarita Jain , Dinkar Sitaram

A fundamental problem in the field of unsupervised machine learning is the detection of anomalies corresponding to rare and unusual observations of interest; reasons include for their rejection, accommodation or further investigation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Nassir Mohammad

An important task in network analysis is the detection of anomalous events in a network time series. These events could merely be times of interest in the network timeline or they could be examples of malicious activity or network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Timothy La Fond , Jennifer Neville , Brian Gallagher

As machine learning models are increasingly considered for high-stakes domains, effective explanation methods are crucial to ensure that their prediction strategies are transparent to the user. Over the years, numerous metrics have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Johannes Maeß , Grégoire Montavon , Shinichi Nakajima , Klaus-Robert Müller , Thomas Schnake

For the purpose of monitoring the behavior of complex infrastructures (e.g. aircrafts, transport or energy networks), high-rate sensors are deployed to capture multivariate data, generally unlabeled, in quasi continuous-time to detect…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-10 Guillaume Staerman , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Stephan Clémençon , Florence d'Alché-Buc

Semi-supervised anomaly detection is a common problem, as often the datasets containing anomalies are partially labeled. We propose a canonical framework: Semi-supervised Pseudo-labeler Anomaly Detection with Ensembling (SPADE) that isn't…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jinsung Yoon , Kihyuk Sohn , Chun-Liang Li , Sercan O. Arik , Tomas Pfister

Anomaly detection is a challenging task that frequently arises in practically all areas of industry and science, from fraud detection and data quality monitoring to finding rare cases of diseases and searching for new physics. Most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Artem Ryzhikov , Maxim Borisyak , Andrey Ustyuzhanin , Denis Derkach

Anomaly detection is of paramount importance in many real-world domains, characterized by evolving behavior. Lifelong learning represents an emerging trend, answering the need for machine learning models that continuously adapt to new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Kamil Faber , Roberto Corizzo , Bartlomiej Sniezynski , Nathalie Japkowicz

Anomaly detection and localization is an important vision problem, having multiple applications. Effective and generic semantic segmentation of anomalous regions on various different surfaces, where most anomalous regions inherently do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Hrishikesh Sharma , Prakhar Pradhan , Balamuralidhar P

Automatic log file analysis enables early detection of relevant incidents such as system failures. In particular, self-learning anomaly detection techniques capture patterns in log data and subsequently report unexpected log event…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Max Landauer , Sebastian Onder , Florian Skopik , Markus Wurzenberger

In the context of human-in-the-loop Machine Learning applications, like Decision Support Systems, interpretability approaches should provide actionable insights without making the users wait. In this paper, we propose Accelerated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 David Dandolo , Chiara Masiero , Mattia Carletti , Davide Dalle Pezze , Gian Antonio Susto

While new and effective methods for anomaly detection are frequently introduced, many studies prioritize the detection task without considering the need for explainability. Yet, in real-world applications, anomaly explanation, which aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Cheng Feng