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Transformers excel in natural language processing and computer vision tasks. However, they still face challenges in generalizing to Out-of-Distribution (OOD) datasets, i.e. data whose distribution differs from that seen during training. OOD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yijin Zhou , Yutang Ge , Wenyuan Xie , Linqian Zeng , Xiaowen Dong , Yuguang Wang

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

Outlier detection is the identification of points in a dataset that do not conform to the norm. Outlier detection is highly sensitive to the choice of the detection algorithm and the feature subspace used by the algorithm. Extracting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Yanjie Fu , Charu Aggarwal , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Deepak S. Turaga , Hui Xiong

Outlier detection (OD), distinguishing inliers and outliers in completely unlabeled datasets, plays a vital role in science and engineering. Although there have been many insightful OD methods, most of them require troublesome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dazhi Fu , Jicong Fan

Outliers are ubiquitous in modern data sets. Distance-based techniques are a popular non-parametric approach to outlier detection as they require no prior assumptions on the data generating distribution and are simple to implement. Scaling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-04 Mario Lucic , Olivier Bachem , Andreas Krause

We propose PODS (Predictable Outliers in Data-trendS), a method that, given a collection of temporal data sets, derives data-driven explanations for outliers by identifying meaningful relationships between them. First, we formalize the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Aline Bessa , Juliana Freire , Divesh Srivastava , Tamraparni Dasu

Outlier detection is a well-researched and crucial problem in machine learning. However, there is little research on string data outlier detection, as most literature focuses on outlier detection of numerical data. A robust string data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Philip Maus

This note investigates the problem of detecting outliers in longitudinal data. It compares well-known methods used in official statistics with proposals from the fields of data mining and machine learning that are based on the distance…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-30 Marcello D'Orazio

Classical discriminant analysis (DA) is based on the mean and empirical covariance matrix of each class, both of which are sensitive to outliers in the data. In the past the focus was on casewise outliers, that is, datapoints that lie far…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Fabio Centofanti , Can Hakan Dagidir , Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw

Anomaly detection algorithms are often thought to be limited because they don't facilitate the process of validating results performed by domain experts. In Contrast, deep learning algorithms for anomaly detection, such as autoencoders,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Liat Antwarg , Ronnie Mindlin Miller , Bracha Shapira , Lior Rokach

We study the classic $k$-means/median clustering, which are fundamental problems in unsupervised learning, in the setting where data are partitioned across multiple sites, and where we are allowed to discard a small portion of the data by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Jiecao Chen , Erfan Sadeqi Azer , Qin Zhang

Outlier detection is an inevitable step to most statistical data analyses. However, the mere detection of an outlying case does not always answer all scientific questions associated with that data point. Outlier detection techniques,…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-12 Michiel Debruyne , Sebastiaan Höppner , Sven Serneels , Tim Verdonck

Detecting outliers in Functional Data Analysis is challenging because curves can stray from the majority in many different ways. The Modified Epigraph Index (MEI) and Modified Hypograph Index (MHI) rank functions by the fraction of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-20 Belen Pulido , Alba M. Franco-Pereira , Rosa E. Lillo , Fabian Scheipl

We present different methods of unsupervised learning which can be used for outlier detection in high energy nuclear collisions. The UrQMD model is used to generate the bulk background of events as well as different variants of outlier…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-05-26 Punnathat Thaprasop , Kai Zhou , Jan Steinheimer , Christoph Herold

Impulsed noise outliers are data points that differs significantly from other observations.They are generally removed from the data set through local regression or Kalman filter algorithm.However, these methods, or their generalizations,…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-02 Bertrand Cloez , Bénédicte Fontez , Eliel González García , Isabelle Sanchez

With advanced data analytical techniques, efforts for more accurate decision support systems for disease prediction are on rise. Surveys by World Health Organization (WHO) indicate a great increase in number of diabetic patients and related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Maham Jahangir , Hammad Afzal , Mehreen Ahmed , Khawar Khurshid , Raheel Nawaz

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a technique used to measure the efficiency of decision-making units (DMUs). In order to measure the efficiency of DMUs, the essential requirement is input-output data. Data is usually collected by humans,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Anjali Sonkariya , Awadh Pratap Singh , Shiv Prasad Yadav

This paper considers the problem of outlier detection in functional data analysis focusing particularly on the more difficult case of shape outliers. We present an inductive conformal anomaly detection method based on elastic functional…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-11 Jason Adams , Brandon Berman , Joshua Michalenko , J. Derek Tucker

A new technique for the detection of outliers in contingency tables is introduced. Outliers thereby are unexpected cell counts with respect to classical loglinear Poisson models. Subsets of cell counts called minimal patterns are defined,…

Computation · Statistics 2012-11-15 Sonja Kuhnt , Fabio Rapallo , André Rehage

Outlier detection (also known as anomaly detection or deviation detection) is a process of detecting data points in which their patterns deviate significantly from others. It is common to have outliers in industry applications, which could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Kasra Babaei , ZhiYuan Chen , Tomas Maul