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Often the challenge associated with tasks like fraud and spam detection[1] is the lack of all likely patterns needed to train suitable supervised learning models. In order to overcome this limitation, such tasks are attempted as outlier or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Utkarsh Porwal , Smruthi Mukund

Outlier detection and cleaning are essential steps in data preprocessing to ensure the integrity and validity of data analyses. This paper focuses on outlier points within individual trajectories, i.e., points that deviate significantly…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Mariana M Garcez Duarte , Mahmoud Sakr

The study of networks has emerged in diverse disciplines as a means of analyzing complex relationship data. Beyond graph analysis tasks like graph query processing, link analysis, influence propagation, there has recently been some work in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Supriya Pandhre , Manish Gupta , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

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

We consider state estimation for networked systems where measurements from sensor nodes are contaminated by outliers. A new hierarchical measurement model is formulated for outlier detection by integrating the outlier-free measurement model…

Applications · Statistics 2022-11-08 Hongwei Wang , Hongbin Li , Wei Zhang , Junyi Zuo , Heping Wang , Jun Fang

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a linear program (LP)-based method used to determine the efficiency of a decision making unit (DMU), which transforms inputs to outputs, by peer comparison. This paper presents a new computation algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Wen-Chih Chen

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

Outlier detection is an important task in data mining and many technologies have been explored in various applications. However, due to the default assumption that outliers are non-concentrated, unsupervised outlier detection may not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Zhe Li , Chunhua Sun , Chunli Liu , Xiayu Chen , Meng Wang , Yezheng Liu

Assessing the technical efficiency of a set of observations requires that the associated data composed of inputs and outputs are perfectly known. If this is not the case, then biased estimates will likely be obtained. Data Envelopment…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-21 Diogo Cunha Ferreira , Josè RUi Figueira , Salvatore Greco , Rui Marques

Astronomers are increasingly faced with a deluge of information, and finding worthwhile targets of study in the sea of data can be difficult. Outlier identification studies are a method that can be used to focus investigations by presenting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-26 Dustin K. Swarm , Casey T. DeRoo , Yanan Liu , Samantha Watkins

Despite tremendous progress in outlier detection research in recent years, the majority of existing methods are designed only to detect unconditional outliers that correspond to unusual data patterns expressed in the joint space of all data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Charmgil Hong , Milos Hauskrecht

The Dark Energy Survey is able to collect image data of an extremely large number of extragalactic objects, and it can be reasonably assumed that many unusual objects of high scientific interest are hidden inside these data. Due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-04 Lior Shamir

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

Data depth is an efficient tool for robustly summarizing the distribution of functional data and detecting potential magnitude and shape outliers. Commonly used functional data depth notions, such as the modified band depth and extremal…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-07 Cristian F. Jimenez-Varon , Fouzi Harrou , Ying Sun

This study investigates the effectiveness of unsupervised outlier detection methods in audit analytics, utilizing USA spending data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) as a case example. We employ and compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Buhe Li , Berkay Kaplan , Maksym Lazirko , Aleksandr Kogan

Wireless sensor networks usually comprise a large number of sensors monitoring changes in variables. These changes in variables represent changes in physical quantities. The changes can occur for various reasons; these reasons are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Pelumi Oluwasanya

A new anomaly detection method called kernel outlier detection (KOD) is proposed. It is designed to address challenges of outlier detection in high-dimensional settings. The aim is to overcome limitations of existing methods, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Can Hakan Dağıdır , Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw

This article introduces trimmed estimators for the mean and covariance function of general functional data. The estimators are based on a new measure of outlyingness or data depth that is well defined on any metric space, although this…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-12-03 Daniel Gervini

Outlier detection has gained increasing interest in recent years, due to newly emerging technologies and the huge amount of high-dimensional data that are now available. Outlier detection can help practitioners to identify unwanted noise…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Mads Lindskou , Torben Tvedebrink , Poul Svante Eriksen , Niels Morling

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