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Effective feature selection is essential for high-dimensional data analysis and machine learning. Unsupervised feature selection (UFS) aims to simultaneously cluster data and identify the most discriminative features. Most existing UFS…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Feng Yu , MD Saifur Rahman Mazumder , Ying Su , Oscar Contreras Velasco

Outlier detection (OD) literature exhibits numerous algorithms as it applies to diverse domains. However, given a new detection task, it is unclear how to choose an algorithm to use, nor how to set its hyperparameter(s) (HPs) in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Xueying Ding , Lingxiao Zhao , Leman Akoglu

Outlier ensemble methods have shown outstanding performance on the discovery of instances that are significantly different from the majority of the data. However, without the awareness of fairness, their applicability in the ethical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Haoyu Liu , Fenglong Ma , Shibo He , Jiming Chen , Jing Gao

Improving the retrieval relevance on noisy datasets is an emerging need for the curation of a large-scale clean dataset in the medical domain. While existing methods can be applied for class-wise retrieval (aka. inter-class), they cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Xiaoyuan Guo , Jiali Duan , Saptarshi Purkayastha , Hari Trivedi , Judy Wawira Gichoya , Imon Banerjee

Methods for unsupervised anomaly detection suffer from the fact that the data is unlabeled, making it difficult to assess the optimality of detection algorithms. Ensemble learning has shown exceptional results in classification and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-26 Edward Yu , Parth Parekh

Today there exists no shortage of outlier detection algorithms in the literature, yet the complementary and critical problem of unsupervised outlier model selection (UOMS) is vastly understudied. In this work we propose ELECT, a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Yue Zhao , Sean Zhang , Leman Akoglu

In recent years, the usage of ensemble learning in applications has grown significantly due to increasing computational power allowing the training of large ensembles in reasonable time frames. Many applications, e.g., malware detection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Peter Domanski , Dirk Pflüger , Jochen Rivoir , Raphaël Latty

Outlier, or anomaly, detection is essential for optimal performance of machine learning methods and statistical predictive models. It is not just a technical step in a data cleaning process but a key topic in many fields such as fraudulent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 O. Ramos Terrades , A. Berenguel , D. Gil

Often the challenge associated with tasks like fraud and spam detection[1] is the lack of all likely patterns needed to train suitable supervised learning models. In order to overcome this limitation, such tasks are attempted as outlier or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Utkarsh Porwal , Smruthi Mukund

Outlier detection is one of the most popular and continuously rising topics in the data mining field due to its crucial academic value and extensive industrial applications. Among different settings, unsupervised outlier detection is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Sibo Zhu , Handong Zhao , Hongfu Liu

Outlier detection is the identification of points in a dataset that do not conform to the norm. Outlier detection is highly sensitive to the choice of the detection algorithm and the feature subspace used by the algorithm. Extracting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Yanjie Fu , Charu Aggarwal , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Deepak S. Turaga , Hui Xiong

Model selection is a strategy aimed at creating accurate and robust models. A key challenge in designing these algorithms is identifying the optimal model for classifying any particular input sample. This paper addresses this challenge and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 James Kotary , Vincenzo Di Vito , Ferdinando Fioretto

An outlier is an observation or a data point that is far from rest of the data points in a given dataset or we can be said that an outlier is away from the center of mass of observations. Presence of outliers can skew statistical measures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Amulya Agarwal , Nitin Gupta

Anomalies in economic and financial data -- often linked to rare yet impactful events -- are of theoretical interest, but can also severely distort inference. Although outlier-robust methodologies can be used, many researchers prefer…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-01 Monica Billio , Roberto Casarin , Fausto Corradin , Antonio Peruzzi

Ensemble learning that can be used to combine the predictions from multiple learners has been widely applied in pattern recognition, and has been reported to be more robust and accurate than the individual learners. This ensemble logic has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Xiaokang Zhang , Inge Jonassen

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

No matter the expressive power and sophistication of supervised learning algorithms, their effectiveness is restricted by the features describing the data. This is not a new insight in ML and many methods for feature selection,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Albrecht Zimmermann

Attributed network embedding has received much interest from the research community as most of the networks come with some content in each node, which is also known as node attributes. Existing attributed network approaches work well when…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sambaran Bandyopadhyay , Lokesh N , M. N. Murty

Automated machine learning has been widely researched and adopted in the field of supervised classification and regression, but progress in unsupervised settings has been limited. We propose a novel approach to automate outlier detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Prabhant Singh , Joaquin Vanschoren

Clustering and outlier detection are two important tasks in data mining. Outliers frequently interfere with clustering algorithms to determine the similarity between objects, resulting in unreliable clustering results. Currently, only a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Qi Li , Shuliang Wang