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Foundation models have the potential to extend the discovery reach for anomaly detection searches. When studying the large OmniLearned foundation model on data from the CMS experiment, unexpected behavior was observed in a mass sideband.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-26 Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman

Experiments at a future $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider will be able to search for new particles with masses below the nominal centre-of-mass energy by analyzing collisions with initial-state radiation (radiative return). We show that machine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-11 Julia Gonski , Jerry Lai , Benjamin Nachman , Inês Ochoa

In many well-motivated models of the electroweak scale, cascade decays of new particles can result in highly boosted hadronic resonances (e.g. $Z/W/h$). This can make these models rich and promising targets for recently developed resonant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-29 Gerrit Bickendorf , Manuel Drees , Gregor Kasieczka , Claudius Krause , David Shih

Anomaly detection is a key research challenge in computer vision and machine learning with applications in many fields from quality control to radar imaging. In radar imaging, specifically synthetic aperture radar (SAR), anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Lucian Chauvin , Somil Gupta , Angelina Ibarra , Joshua Peeples

Machine learning-based anomaly detection methods are able to search high-dimensional spaces for hints of new physics with much less theory bias than traditional searches. However, by searching in many directions all at once, the statistical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Marie Hein , Benjamin Nachman , David Shih

In particle physics, semi-supervised machine learning is an attractive option to reduce model dependencies searches beyond the Standard Model. When utilizing semi-supervised techniques in training machine learning models in the search for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-09-16 Benjamin Lieberman , Joshua Choma , Salah-Eddine Dahbi , Bruce Mellado , Xifeng Ruan

Anomaly detection can be conceived either through generative modelling of regular training data or by discriminating with respect to negative training data. These two approaches exhibit different failure modes. Consequently, hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Matej Grcić , Petra Bevandić , Siniša Šegvić

Robustness against noisy imaging is crucial for practical image anomaly detection systems. This study introduces a Robust Anomaly Detection (RAD) dataset with free views, uneven illuminations, and blurry collections to systematically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuqi Cheng , Yunkang Cao , Rui Chen , Weiming Shen

There is a growing use of neural network classifiers as unbinned, high-dimensional (and variable-dimensional) reweighting functions. To date, the focus has been on marginal reweighting, where a subset of features are used for reweighting…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-09-13 Benjamin Nachman , Jesse Thaler

We propose a new scientific application of unsupervised learning techniques to boost our ability to search for new phenomena in data, by detecting discrepancies between two datasets. These could be, for example, a simulated standard-model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-11 Andrea De Simone , Thomas Jacques

A significant limitation of one-class classification anomaly detection methods is their reliance on the assumption that unlabeled training data only contains normal instances. To overcome this impractical assumption, we propose two novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Le Thi Khanh Hien , Sukanya Patra , Souhaib Ben Taieb

We propose a physics-informed anomaly detection framework for collider data based on a Bayesian latent diffusion model. Our method combines a probabilistic encoder with diffusion dynamics in the latent space, allowing for stable and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-03-27 Jigar Patel , Tommaso Dorigo

Numerous Deep Learning (DL)-based approaches have gained attention in software Log Anomaly Detection (LAD), yet class imbalance in training data remains a challenge, with anomalies often comprising less than 1% of datasets like Thunderbird.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Xiaoxue Ma , Huiqi Zou , Pinjia He , Jacky Keung , Yishu Li , Xiao Yu , Federica Sarro

Anomaly detection is an important task for complex systems (e.g., industrial facilities, manufacturing, large-scale science experiments), where failures in a sub-system can lead to low yield, faulty products, or even damage to components.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ryan Humble , Zhe Zhang , Finn O'Shea , Eric Darve , Daniel Ratner

Experiments at particle colliders are the primary source of insight into physics at microscopic scales. Searches at these facilities often rely on optimization of analyses targeting specific models of new physics. Increasingly, however,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-16 Marat Freytsis , Maxim Perelstein , Yik Chuen San

In practice, machine learning methods commonly require anomaly detection (AD) to filter inputs or detect distributional shifts. Typically, this is implemented by running a separate AD model alongside the primary model. However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luca Hinkamp , Simon Klüttermann , Emmanuel Müller

Anomaly detection algorithms have been proved to be useful in the search of new physics beyond the Standard Model. However, a prerequisite for using an anomaly detection algorithm is that the signal to be sought is indeed anomalous. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-23 Ji-Chong Yang , Yu-Chen Guo , Li-Hua Cai

Machine learning offers potential solutions to current issues in industrial systems in areas such as quality control and predictive maintenance, but also faces unique barriers in industrial applications. An ongoing challenge is extreme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lesley Wheat , Martin v. Mohrenschildt , Saeid Habibi

In industrial anomaly detection, model efficiency and mobile-friendliness become the primary concerns in real-world applications. Simultaneously, the impressive generalization capabilities of Segment Anything (SAM) have garnered broad…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Chenghao Li , Lei Qi , Xin Geng

This paper addresses the dual challenge of improving anomaly detection and signal integrity in high-speed dynamic random access memory signals. To achieve this, we propose a joint training framework that integrates an autoencoder with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Muhammad Usama , Hee-Deok Jang , Soham Shanbhag , Yoo-Chang Sung , Seung-Jun Bae , Dong Eui Chang