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There are numerous opportunities for adversaries to observe user behavior remotely on the web. Additionally, keystroke biometric algorithms have advanced to the point where user identification and soft biometric trait recognition rates are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-20 John V. Monaco , Charles C. Tappert

We propose a non-parametric anomaly detection algorithm for high dimensional data. We first rank scores derived from nearest neighbor graphs on $n$-point nominal training data. We then train limited complexity models to imitate these scores…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-25 Jonathan Root , Venkatesh Saligrama , Jing Qian

The progress in modelling time series and, more generally, sequences of structured data has recently revamped research in anomaly detection. The task stands for identifying abnormal behaviors in financial series, IT systems, aerospace…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Alessandro Flaborea , Bardh Prenkaj , Bharti Munjal , Marco Aurelio Sterpa , Dario Aragona , Luca Podo , Fabio Galasso

Uncertain data streams have been widely generated in many Web applications. The uncertainty in data streams makes anomaly detection from sensor data streams far more challenging. In this paper, we present a novel framework that supports…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Jiangang Ma , Le Sun , Hua Wang , Yanchun Zhang , Uwe Aickelin

Anomaly detection is an important problem in many application areas, such as network security. Many deep learning methods for unsupervised anomaly detection produce good empirical performance but lack theoretical guarantees. By casting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-16 Tian-Yi Zhou , Matthew Lau , Jizhou Chen , Wenke Lee , Xiaoming Huo

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

The ability to quickly and accurately detect anomalous structure within data sequences is an inference challenge of growing importance. This work extends recently proposed post-hoc (offline) anomaly detection methodology to the sequential…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-16 Alexander T. M. Fisch , Lawrence Bardwell , Idris A. Eckley

This paper studies the model selection problem in a large class of causal time series models, which includes both the ARMA or AR($\infty$) processes, as well as the GARCH or ARCH($\infty$), APARCH, ARMA-GARCH and many others processes. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Jean-Marc Bardet , Kamila Kare , William Kengne

The accumulation of time-series data and the absence of labels make time-series Anomaly Detection (AD) a self-supervised deep learning task. Single-normality-assumption-based methods, which reveal only a certain aspect of the whole…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Rui Wang , Chongwei Liu , Xudong Mou , Kai Gao , Xiaohui Guo , Pin Liu , Tianyu Wo , Xudong Liu

Semi-supervised anomaly detection is based on the principle that potential anomalies are those records that look different from normal training data. However, in some cases we are specifically interested in anomalies that correspond to high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Oliver Urs Lenz , Matthijs van Leeuwen

Standard stochastic optimization methods are brittle, sensitive to stepsize choices and other algorithmic parameters, and they exhibit instability outside of well-behaved families of objectives. To address these challenges, we investigate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Hilal Asi , John C. Duchi

Time-series data vary widely across domains, making a universal anomaly detector impractical. Methods that perform well on one dataset often fail to transfer because what counts as an anomaly is context dependent. The key challenge is to…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mohamed Abdelmaksoud , Sheng Ding , Andrey Morozov , Ziawasch Abedjan

So-called unsupervised anomaly detection is better described as semi-supervised, as it assumes all training data are nominal. This assumption simplifies training but requires manual data curation, introducing bias and limiting adaptability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Muhammad Aqeel , Shakiba Sharifi , Marco Cristani , Francesco Setti

In this paper, we explore different approaches to anomaly detection on dynamic knowledge graphs, specifically in a Micro-services environment for Kubernetes applications. Our approach explores three dynamic knowledge graph representations:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xiaohua Lu , Leshanshui Yang

In this paper, we discuss the asymptotic behavior of the Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) algorithm in the context of multiarmed bandit problems and discuss its implication in downstream inferential tasks. While inferential tasks become…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-09 Koulik Khamaru , Cun-Hui Zhang

Learning to detect real-world anomalous events through video-level labels is a challenging task due to the rare occurrence of anomalies as well as noise in the labels. In this work, we propose a weakly supervised anomaly detection method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Arif Mahmood , Marcella Astrid , Seung-Ik Lee

A robust and efficient anomaly detection technique is proposed, capable of dealing with crowded scenes where traditional tracking based approaches tend to fail. Initial foreground segmentation of the input frames confines the analysis to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Vikas Reddy , Conrad Sanderson , Brian C. Lovell

Time series anomaly detection has been a perennially important topic in data science, with papers dating back to the 1950s. However, in recent years there has been an explosion of interest in this topic, much of it driven by the success of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Renjie Wu , Eamonn J. Keogh

In recent years dynamical modelling has been provided with a range of breakthrough methods to perform exact Bayesian inference. However it is often computationally unfeasible to apply exact statistical methodologies in the context of large…

Computation · Statistics 2014-12-24 Umberto Picchini , Julie Lyng Forman

Real-world problems often involve the optimization of several objectives under multiple constraints. An example is the hyper-parameter tuning problem of machine learning algorithms. In particular, the minimization of the estimation of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-02 Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán , Daniel Hernández-Lobato