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In this paper, the mathematical analysis of the Isolation Random Forest Method (IRF Method) for anomaly detection is presented. We show that the IRF space can be endowed with a probability induced by the Isolation Tree algorithm (iTree). In…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-05 Fernando A. Morales , Jorge M. Ramírez , Edgar A. Ramos

We address the problem of detecting anomalies with respect to structured patterns. To this end, we conceive a novel anomaly detection method called PIF, that combines the advantages of adaptive isolation methods with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Filippo Leveni , Luca Magri , Giacomo Boracchi , Cesare Alippi

The widespread integration of new technologies in low-voltage distribution networks on the consumer side creates the need for distribution system operators to perform advanced real-time calculations to estimate network conditions. In recent…

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As cyber threats continue to evolve in sophistication and scale, the ability to detect anomalous network behavior has become critical for maintaining robust cybersecurity defenses. Modern cybersecurity systems face the overwhelming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Christie Djidjev

Anomaly detection aims at identifying unexpected fluctuations in the expected behavior of a given system. It is acknowledged as a reliable answer to the identification of zero-day attacks to such extent, several ML algorithms that suit for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Tommaso Zoppi , Andrea ceccarelli , Tommaso Capecchi , Andrea Bondavalli

We address the problem of detecting anomalies as samples that do not conform to structured patterns represented by low-dimensional manifolds. To this end, we conceive a general anomaly detection framework called Preference Isolation Forest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Filippo Leveni , Luca Magri , Cesare Alippi , Giacomo Boracchi

Anomaly Detection (AD) is evolving through algorithms capable of identifying outliers in complex datasets. The Isolation Forest (IF), a pivotal AD technique, exhibits adaptability limitations and biases. This paper introduces the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Alessio Arcudi , Alessandro Ferreri , Francesco Borsatti , Gian Antonio Susto

Data mining offers a diverse toolbox for extracting meaningful structures from complex datasets, with anomaly detection emerging as a critical subfield particularly in the context of streaming or real-time data. Within anomaly detection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Adam Ulrich , Jan Krňávek , Roman Šenkeřík , Zuzana Komínková Oplatková , Radek Vala

Anomaly detection is critical in various fields, including intrusion detection, health monitoring, fault diagnosis, and sensor network event detection. The isolation forest (or iForest) approach is a well-known technique for detecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Seemandhar Jain , Prarthi Jain , Abhishek Srivastava

Anomaly detection presents a unique challenge in machine learning, due to the scarcity of labeled anomaly data. Recent work attempts to mitigate such problems by augmenting training of deep anomaly detection models with additional labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Ziyu Ye , Yuxin Chen , Haitao Zheng

The effectiveness of anomaly signal detection can be significantly undermined by the inherent uncertainty of relying on one specified model. Under the framework of model average methods, this paper proposes a novel criterion to select the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-30 Gaoxiang Zhao , Lu Wang , Xiaoqiang Wang

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

Detection of anomalous situations for complex mission-critical systems hold paramount importance when their service continuity needs to be ensured. A major challenge in detecting anomalies from the operational data arises due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shanay Mehta , Shlok Mehendale , Nicole Fernandes , Jyotirmoy Sarkar , Santonu Sarkar , Snehanshu Saha

Standard methods for anomaly detection assume that all features are observed at both learning time and prediction time. Such methods cannot process data containing missing values. This paper studies five strategies for handling missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Thomas G. Dietterich , Tadesse Zemicheal

The anomaly detection literature is abundant with offline methods, which require repeated access to data in memory, and impose impractical assumptions when applied to a streaming context. Existing online anomaly detection methods also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Filippo Leveni , Guilherme Weigert Cassales , Bernhard Pfahringer , Albert Bifet , Giacomo Boracchi

In this paper we describe an approach for anomaly detection and its explainability in multivariate functional data. The anomaly detection procedure consists of transforming the series into a vector of features and using an Isolation forest…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-09 Mathieu Cura , Katarina Firdova , Céline Labart , Arthur Martel

Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in domains such as healthcare, manufacturing, and cybersecurity. This thesis proposes new unsupervised methods for anomaly detection in both structured and streaming data settings. In the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Filippo Leveni

Connected acyclic graphs (trees) are data objects that hierarchically organize categories. Collections of trees arise in a diverse variety of fields, including evolutionary biology, public health, machine learning, social sciences and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-01 Maria Alejandra Valdez Cabrera , Amy D Willis , Armeen Taeb

Isolation forest or "iForest" is an intuitive and widely used algorithm for anomaly detection that follows a simple yet effective idea: in a given data distribution, if a threshold (split point) is selected uniformly at random within the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-07 David Cortes