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Patterns that appear rarely or unusually in the data can be defined as outlier patterns. The basic idea behind detecting outlier patterns is comparison of their relative frequencies with frequent patterns. Their frequencies of appearance…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Archana N. , S. S. Pawar

In many real-world AD applications including computer security and fraud prevention, the anomaly detector must be configurable by the human analyst to minimize the effort on false positives. One important way to configure the detector is by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Shubhomoy Das , Md Rakibul Islam , Nitthilan Kannappan Jayakodi , Janardhan Rao Doppa

We describe the use of an unsupervised Random Forest for similarity learning and improved unsupervised anomaly detection. By training a Random Forest to discriminate between real data and synthetic data sampled from a uniform distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-23 Joshua S. Harvey , Joshua Rosaler , Mingshu Li , Dhruv Desai , Dhagash Mehta

In federated learning systems, clients are autonomous in that their behaviors are not fully governed by the server. Consequently, a client may intentionally or unintentionally deviate from the prescribed course of federated model training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Suyi Li , Yong Cheng , Yang Liu , Wei Wang , Tianjian Chen

A framework is proposed to detect anomalies in multi-modal data. A deep neural network-based object detector is employed to extract counts of objects and sub-events from the data. A cyclostationary model is proposed to model regular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-19 Taposh Banerjee , Gene Whipps , Prudhvi Gurram , Vahid Tarokh

We implement an outlier detection model, an Isolation Foest (iForest), to uncover anomalous objects in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly Fourth Data Release (GAMA DR4). The iForest algorithm is an unsupervise Machine Learning (ML) technique. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Kieran Broadbelt , Kevin Pimbblet , Daniel J. Farrow

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

Enterprise networks are one of the major targets for cyber attacks due to the vast amount of sensitive and valuable data they contain. A common approach to detecting attacks in the enterprise environment relies on modeling the behavior of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Enes Altinisik , Husrev Taha Sencar , Mohamed Nabeel , Issa Khalil , Ting Yu

This work describes an outlier detection procedure (named "OutlierTree") loosely based on the GritBot software developed by RuleQuest research, which works by evaluating and following supervised decision tree splits on variables, in whose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-06 David Cortes

Anomaly event detection is crucial for critical infrastructure security(transportation system, social-ecological sector, insurance service, government sector etc.) due to its ability to reveal and address the potential cyber-threats in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yipeng Ji , Jingyi Wang , Shaoning Li , Yangyang Li , Shenwen Lin , Xiong Li

Recommender systems are designed to suggest items based on user preferences, helping users navigate the vast amount of information available on the internet. Given the overwhelming content, outlier detection has emerged as a key research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Mahamudul Hasan

One of the main tasks of cybersecurity is recognizing malicious interactions with an arbitrary system. Currently, the logging information from each interaction can be collected in almost unrestricted amounts, but identification of attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Linara Adilova , Livin Natious , Siming Chen , Olivier Thonnard , Michael Kamp

A bot is a piece of software that is usually installed on an infected machine without the user's knowledge. A bot is controlled remotely by the attacker under a Command and Control structure. Recent statistics show that bots represent one…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Yousof Al-Hammadi , Uwe Aickelin

Botnets (networks of compromised computers) are often used for malicious activities such as spam, click fraud, identity theft, phishing, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Most of previous researches have introduced fully or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Sajjad Arshad , Maghsoud Abbaspour , Mehdi Kharrazi , Hooman Sanatkar

This paper addresses the problem of detecting anomalous activity in traffic networks where the network is not directly observed. Given knowledge of what the node-to-node traffic in a network should be, any activity that differs…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-20 Elizabeth Hou , Yasin Yilmaz , Alfred Hero

Out-of-distribution detection (OOD) deals with anomalous input to neural networks. In the past, specialized methods have been proposed to reject predictions on anomalous input. Similarly, it was shown that feature extraction models in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jan Diers , Christian Pigorsch

Programmable logic controller (PLC) based industrial control systems (ICS) are used to monitor and control critical infrastructure. Integration of communication networks and an Internet of Things approach in ICS has increased ICS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Emmanuel Aboah Boateng , Bruce J. W

Ensemble learning for anomaly detection of data structured into complex network has been barely studied due to the inconsistent performance of complex network characteristics and lack of inherent objective function. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Jinfa Wang , Xiao Liu , Hai Zhao , Xingchi Chen

We introduce an online outlier detection algorithm to detect outliers in a sequentially observed data stream. For this purpose, we use a two-stage filtering and hedging approach. In the first stage, we construct a multi-modal probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Mohammadreza Mohaghegh Neyshabouri , Suleyman Serdar Kozat

In this paper a novel system for detecting meaningful deviations in a mobile application's network behavior is proposed. The main goal of the proposed system is to protect mobile device users and cellular infrastructure companies from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-07 L. Chekina , D. Mimran , L. Rokach , Y. Elovici , B. Shapira