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In distributed learning, the goal is to perform a learning task over data distributed across multiple nodes with minimal (expensive) communication. Prior work (Daume III et al., 2012) proposes a general model that bounds the communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Hal Daume , Jeff M. Phillips , Avishek Saha , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Software systems often record important runtime information in logs to help with troubleshooting. Log-based anomaly detection has become a key research area that aims to identify system issues through log data, ultimately enhancing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wei Guan , Jian Cao , Shiyou Qian , Jianqi Gao , Chun Ouyang

We consider the problem of event detection based upon a (typically multivariate) data stream characterizing some system. Most of the time the system is quiescent - nothing of interest is happening - but occasionally events of interest…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-03-16 Werner Stuetzle , Donald B. Percival , Caren Marzban

We target modeling latent dynamics in high-dimension marked event sequences without any prior knowledge about marker relations. Such problem has been rarely studied by previous works which would have fundamental difficulty to handle the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Qitian Wu , Zixuan Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Junchi Yan , Guihai Chen

Modern telecom systems are monitored with performance and system logs from multiple application layers and components. Detecting anomalous events from these logs is key to identify security breaches, resource over-utilization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Abhishek Sarkar , Tanmay Sen , Srimanta Kundu , Arijit Sarkar , Abdul Wazed

Anomalies or failures in large computer systems, such as the cloud, have an impact on a large number of users that communicate, compute, and store information. Therefore, timely and accurate anomaly detection is necessary for reliability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Harold Ott , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Alexander Acker , Sasho Nedelkoski , Odej Kao

We explored the challenge of predicting and explaining the occurrence of events within sequences of data points. Our focus was particularly on scenarios in which unknown triggers causing the occurrence of events may consist of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Harrison Lam , Yuanjie Chen , Noboru Kanazawa , Mohammad Chowdhury , Anna Battista , Stephan Waldert

Anomaly detection is a crucial and challenging subject that has been studied within diverse research areas. In this work, we explore the task of log anomaly detection (especially computer system logs and user behavior logs) by analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yicheng Guo , Yujin Wen , Congwei Jiang , Yixin Lian , Yi Wan

Effective anomaly detection from logs is crucial for enhancing cybersecurity defenses by enabling the early identification of threats. Despite advances in anomaly detection, existing systems often fall short in areas such as post-detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Zhuoran Tan , Qiyuan Wang , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Shameem P. Parambath , Jeremy Singer , Sam Temple

Financial news items are unstructured sources of information that can be mined to extract knowledge for market screening applications. Manual extraction of relevant information from the continuous stream of finance-related news is…

A novel Twitter context aided content caching (TAC) framework is proposed for enhancing the caching efficiency by taking advantage of the legibility and massive volume of Twitter data. For the purpose of promoting the caching efficiency,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Zhong Yang , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Event detection (ED) identifies and classifies event triggers from unstructured texts, serving as a fundamental task for information extraction. Despite the remarkable progress achieved in the past several years, most research efforts focus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xiangyu Xi , Jianwei Lv , Shuaipeng Liu , Wei Ye , Fan Yang , Guanglu Wan

In today's data-driven era, deep learning is vital for processing massive datasets, yet single-device training is constrained by computational and memory limits. Distributed deep learning overcomes these challenges by leveraging multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Xiaoxue Ma , Wanwei Zhan , Jiale Chen , Yishu Li , Jacky Keung , Federica Sarro

Topic modelling in Natural Language Processing uncovers hidden topics in large, unlabelled text datasets. It is widely applied in fields such as information retrieval, content summarisation, and trend analysis across various disciplines.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Saranzaya Magsarjav , Melissa Humphries , Jonathan Tuke , Lewis Mitchell

Topic models, such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), posit that documents are drawn from admixtures of distributions over words, known as topics. The inference problem of recovering topics from admixtures, is NP-hard. Assuming…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-05 Trapit Bansal , Chiranjib Bhattacharyya , Ravindran Kannan

An important aspect of text mining involves information retrieval in form of discovery of semantic themes (topics) from documents using topic modelling. While generative topic models like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or Latent Semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Satyajeet Sahoo , Jhareswar Maiti

In spite of the rapid advancements in unsupervised log anomaly detection techniques, the current mainstream models still necessitate specific training for individual system datasets, resulting in costly procedures and limited scalability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Runqiang Zang , Hongcheng Guo , Jian Yang , Jiaheng Liu , Zhoujun Li , Tieqiao Zheng , Xu Shi , Liangfan Zheng , Bo Zhang

Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) is a very active research question within the area of text mining, generally applied to news feeds and Twitter datasets, where topics and events are detected. The notion of "event" is broad, but typically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-25 A. Sokolovsky , T. Gross , J. Bacardit

Event-based datasets are crucial for cybersecurity analysis. A key use case is detecting event-based signatures, which represent attacks spanning multiple events and can only be understood once the relevant events are identified and linked.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Saad Khan , Simon Parkinson , Monika Roopak

We consider the problem of collectively detecting multiple events, particularly in cross-sentence settings. The key to dealing with the problem is to encode semantic information and model event inter-dependency at a document-level. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Dongfang Lou , Zhilin Liao , Shumin Deng , Ningyu Zhang , Huajun Chen