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In this work, we propose a new, fast and scalable method for anomaly detection in large time-evolving graphs. It may be a static graph with dynamic node attributes (e.g. time-series), or a graph evolving in time, such as a temporal network.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Volodymyr Miz , Benjamin Ricaud , Kirell Benzi , Pierre Vandergheynst

Anomaly detection in complex domains poses significant challenges due to the need for extensive labeled data and the inherently imbalanced nature of anomalous versus benign samples. Graph-based machine learning models have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yifan Wei , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

This paper proposes a methodology for host-based anomaly detection using a semi-supervised algorithm namely one-class classifier combined with a PCA-based feature extraction technique called Eigentraces on system call trace data. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Ehsan Aghaei , Gursel Serpen

Intrusion detection has become one of the most critical tasks in a wireless network to prevent service outages that can take long to fix. The sheer variety of anomalous events necessitates adopting cognitive anomaly detection methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-19 Nistha Tandiya , Ahmad Jauhar , Vuk Marojevic , Jeffrey H. Reed

Unsupervised detection of anomaly points in time series is a challenging problem, which requires the model to derive a distinguishable criterion. Previous methods tackle the problem mainly through learning pointwise representation or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jiehui Xu , Haixu Wu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Anomaly detection methods can be very useful in identifying unusual or interesting patterns in data. A recently proposed conditional anomaly detection framework extends anomaly detection to the problem of identifying anomalous patterns on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Michal Valko , Milos Hauskrecht

One-class anomaly detection is challenging. A representation that clearly distinguishes anomalies from normal data is ideal, but arriving at this representation is difficult since only normal data is available at training time. We examine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Kimberly T. Mai , Toby Davies , Lewis D. Griffin

Accurate and timely detection of cyber threats is critical to keeping our online economy and data safe. A key technique in early detection is the classification of unusual patterns of network behaviour, often hidden as low-frequency events…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Anthony Kenyon , Lipika Deka , David Elizondo

Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs is a critical task with broad real-world applications, including social networks, e-commerce, and cybersecurity. Most existing methods assume that normal patterns remain stable over time; however, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaoyang Xu , Xiaofeng Lin , Koh Takeuchi , Kyohei Atarashi , Hisashi Kashima

Distance queries are a basic tool in data analysis. They are used for detection and localization of change for the purpose of anomaly detection, monitoring, or planning. Distance queries are particularly useful when data sets such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Edith Cohen

In the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are exposed to various kinds of attacks when connected to the Internet. An attack detection mechanism that understands the limitations of these severely resource-constrained devices is necessary. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Nidhi Rastogi , James Hendler

The problem of sequential anomaly detection and identification is considered, where multiple data sources are simultaneously monitored and the goal is to identify in real time those, if any, that exhibit ``anomalous" statistical behavior.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Aristomenis Tsopelakos , Georgios Fellouris

Automatic anomaly detection is a major issue in various areas. Beyond mere detection, the identification of the origin of the problem that produced the anomaly is also essential. This paper introduces a general methodology that can assist…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-09-17 Tsirizo Rabenoro , Jérôme Lacaille , Marie Cottrell , Fabrice Rossi

Because anomalous samples cannot be used for training, many anomaly detection and localization methods use pre-trained networks and non-parametric modeling to estimate encoded feature distribution. However, these methods neglect the impact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jaehyeok Bae , Jae-Han Lee , Seyun Kim

Automated detection of abnormalities in data has been studied in research area in recent years because of its diverse applications in practice including video surveillance, industrial damage detection and network intrusion detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Hung Vu , Dinh Phung , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Anthony Trevors , Svetha Venkatesh

Anomaly detection is the task of identifying rarely occurring (i.e. anormal or anomalous) samples that differ from almost all other samples in a dataset. As the patterns of anormal samples are usually not known a priori, this task is highly…

Applications · Statistics 2025-06-30 Nicolas Thewes , Philipp Steinhauer , Patrick Trampert , Markus Pauly , Georg Schneider

Timely and accurate detection of anomalies in power electronics is becoming increasingly critical for maintaining complex production systems. Robust and explainable strategies help decrease system downtime and preempt or mitigate…

Detecting test data deviating from training data is a central problem for safe and robust machine learning. Likelihoods learned by a generative model, e.g., a normalizing flow via standard log-likelihood training, perform poorly as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Robert Schmier , Ullrich Köthe , Christoph-Nikolas Straehle

This paper proposes to develop a network phenotyping mechanism based on network resource usage analysis and identify abnormal network traffic. The network phenotyping may use different metrics in the cyber physical system (CPS), including…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Minhui Zou , Chengliang Wang , Fangyu Li , WenZhan Song

Unsupervised anomaly detection stands as an important problem in machine learning, with applications in financial fraud prevention, network security and medical diagnostics. Existing unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms rarely perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Pritam Kar , Rahul Bordoloi , Olaf Wolkenhauer , Saptarshi Bej