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Anomaly detection is being regarded as an unsupervised learning task as anomalies stem from adversarial or unlikely events with unknown distributions. However, the predictive performance of purely unsupervised anomaly detection often fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Nico Goernitz , Marius Micha Kloft , Konrad Rieck , Ulf Brefeld

Deep generative models are challenging the classical methods in the field of anomaly detection nowadays. Every new method provides evidence of outperforming its predecessors, often with contradictory results. The objective of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Vít Škvára , Jan Franců , Matěj Zorek , Tomáš Pevný , Václav Šmídl

Recent advances in data collection technology, accompanied by the ever-rising volume and velocity of streaming data, underscore the vital need for time series analytics. In this regard, time-series anomaly detection has been an important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Paul Boniol , Qinghua Liu , Mingyi Huang , Themis Palpanas , John Paparrizos

This paper proposes to use set features for detecting anomalies in samples that consist of unusual combinations of normal elements. Many leading methods discover anomalies by detecting an unusual part of a sample. For example,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Niv Cohen , Issar Tzachor , Yedid Hoshen

This study explores the concept of high-density anomalies. As opposed to the traditional concept of anomalies as isolated occurrences, high-density anomalies are deviant cases positioned in the most normal regions of the data space. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Ralph Foorthuis

Anomaly detection is defined as the problem of finding data points that do not follow the patterns of the majority. Among the various proposed methods for solving this problem, classification-based methods, including one-class Support…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Amir Hossein Noormohammadia , Seyed Ali MirHassania , Farnaz Hooshmand Khaligh

Practical anomaly detection requires applying numerous approaches due to the inherent difficulty of unsupervised learning. Direct comparison between complex or opaque anomaly detection algorithms is intractable; we instead propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-08 Matthew Davidow , David Matteson

High-dimensional data poses unique challenges in outlier detection process. Most of the existing algorithms fail to properly address the issues stemming from a large number of features. In particular, outlier detection algorithms perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Firuz Kamalov , Ho Hon Leung

Anomalies represent deviations from the intended system operation and can lead to decreased efficiency as well as partial or complete system failure. As the causes of anomalies are often unknown due to complex system dynamics, efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Benjamin Lindemann , Benjamin Maschler , Nada Sahlab , Michael Weyrich

Anomaly detection focuses on identifying samples that deviate from the norm. Discovering informative representations of normal samples is crucial to detecting anomalies effectively. Recent self-supervised methods have successfully learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Alain Ryser , Thomas M. Sutter , Alexander Marx , Julia E. Vogt

High false-positive rate is a long-standing challenge for anomaly detection algorithms, especially in high-stake applications. To identify the true anomalies, in practice, analysts or domain experts will be employed to investigate the top…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Daochen Zha , Kwei-Herng Lai , Mingyang Wan , Xia Hu

Anomaly detection aims at detecting unexpected behaviours in the data. Because anomaly detection is usually an unsupervised task, traditional anomaly detectors learn a decision boundary by employing heuristics based on intuitions, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Lorenzo Perini , Jesse Davis

One of the contemporary challenges in anomaly detection is the ability to detect, and differentiate between, both point and collective anomalies within a data sequence or time series. The anomaly package has been developed to provide users…

Applications · Statistics 2024-01-30 Alex Fisch , Daniel Grose , Idris A. Eckley , Paul Fearnhead , Lawrence Bardwell

Anomaly detectors address the difficult problem of detecting automatically exceptions in an arbitrary background image. Detection methods have been proposed by the thousands because each problem requires a different background model. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Axel Davy , Thibaud Ehret , Jean-Michel Morel , Mauricio Delbracio

We propose a modified density estimation problem that is highly effective for detecting anomalies in tabular data. Our approach assumes that the density function is relatively stable (with lower variance) around normal samples. We have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Amit Rozner , Barak Battash , Henry Li , Lior Wolf , Ofir Lindenbaum

The continued digitization of societal processes translates into a proliferation of time series data that cover applications such as fraud detection, intrusion detection, and energy management, where anomaly detection is often essential to…

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying abnormal instances or events in data sets which deviate from the norm significantly. In this study, we propose a signatures based machine learning algorithm to detect rare or unexpected items…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-02-09 Erdinc Akyildirim , Matteo Gambara , Josef Teichmann , Syang Zhou

Deep approaches to anomaly detection have recently shown promising results over shallow methods on large and complex datasets. Typically anomaly detection is treated as an unsupervised learning problem. In practice however, one may…

Anomaly detection (AD) is a critical task across domains such as cybersecurity and healthcare. In the unsupervised setting, an effective and theoretically-grounded principle is to train classifiers to distinguish normal data from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-18 Matthew Lau , Tian-Yi Zhou , Xiangchi Yuan , Jizhou Chen , Wenke Lee , Xiaoming Huo

Anomaly detection is facing with emerging challenges in many important industry domains, such as cyber security and online recommendation and advertising. The recent trend in these areas calls for anomaly detection on time-evolving data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Zheng Gao , Lin Guo , Chi Ma , Xiao Ma , Kai Sun , Hang Xiang , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Hongsong Li , Xiaozhong Liu