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Outlier detection in a large-scale database is a significant and complex issue in knowledge discovering field. As the data distributions are obscure and uncertain in high dimensional space, most existing solutions try to solve the issue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Zhana Bao

Out-of-scope intent detection is of practical importance in task-oriented dialogue systems. Since the distribution of outlier utterances is arbitrary and unknown in the training stage, existing methods commonly rely on strong assumptions on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Li-Ming Zhan , Haowen Liang , Bo Liu , Lu Fan , Xiao-Ming Wu , Albert Y. S. Lam

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential for the reliable and safe deployment of machine learning systems in the real world. Great progress has been made over the past years. This paper presents the first review of recent advances…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Hao Lang , Yinhe Zheng , Yixuan Li , Jian Sun , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li

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

Support Vector Machines have been successfully used for one-class classification (OCSVM, SVDD) when trained on clean data, but they work much worse on dirty data: outliers present in the training data tend to become support vectors, and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Daniel Boiar , Thomas Liebig , Erich Schubert

A new technique for the detection of outliers in contingency tables is introduced. Outliers thereby are unexpected cell counts with respect to classical loglinear Poisson models. Subsets of cell counts called minimal patterns are defined,…

Computation · Statistics 2012-11-15 Sonja Kuhnt , Fabio Rapallo , André Rehage

Despite tremendous progress in outlier detection research in recent years, the majority of existing methods are designed only to detect unconditional outliers that correspond to unusual data patterns expressed in the joint space of all data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Charmgil Hong , Milos Hauskrecht

Outlier detection in tabular data is crucial for safeguarding data integrity in high-stakes domains such as cybersecurity, financial fraud detection, and healthcare, where anomalies can cause serious operational and economic impacts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yihao Ang , Peicheng Yao , Yifan Bao , Yushuo Feng , Qiang Huang , Anthony K. H. Tung , Zhiyong Huang

Informed down-sampling (IDS) is known to improve performance in symbolic regression when combined with various selection strategies, especially tournament selection. However, recent work found that IDS's gains are not consistent across all…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Alina Geiger , Martin Briesch , Dominik Sobania , Franz Rothlauf

PyUnfold is a Python package for incorporating imperfections of the measurement process into a data analysis pipeline. In an ideal world, we would have access to the perfect detector: an apparatus that makes no error in measuring a desired…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-06-12 James Bourbeau , Zigfried Hampel-Arias

An outlier is an event or observation that is defined as an unusual activity, intrusion, or a suspicious data point that lies at an irregular distance from a population. The definition of an outlier event, however, is subjective and depends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Md Nazmul Kabir Sikder , Feras A. Batarseh

Outlier Detection is a critical and cardinal research task due its array of applications in variety of domains ranging from data mining, clustering, statistical analysis, fraud detection, network intrusion detection and diagnosis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Archit Harsh , John E. Ball , Pan Wei

Advances in sensor technology have enabled the collection of large-scale datasets. Such datasets can be extremely noisy and often contain a significant amount of outliers that result from sensor malfunction or human operation faults. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Yu-Hsuan Kuo , Zhenhui Li , Daniel Kifer

This study investigates the effectiveness of unsupervised outlier detection methods in audit analytics, utilizing USA spending data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) as a case example. We employ and compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Buhe Li , Berkay Kaplan , Maksym Lazirko , Aleksandr Kogan

The outlying property detection problem is the problem of discovering the properties distinguishing a given object, known in advance to be an outlier in a database, from the other database objects. In this paper, we analyze the problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Fabrizio Angiulli , Fabio Fassetti , Luigi Palopoli , Giuseppe Manco

Anomaly detection algorithms are often thought to be limited because they don't facilitate the process of validating results performed by domain experts. In Contrast, deep learning algorithms for anomaly detection, such as autoencoders,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Liat Antwarg , Ronnie Mindlin Miller , Bracha Shapira , Lior Rokach

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring reliable deployment of machine learning models. Recent advancements focus on utilizing easily accessible auxiliary outliers (e.g., data from the web or other datasets) in training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Haiyun Yao , Zongbo Han , Huazhu Fu , Xi Peng , Qinghua Hu , Changqing Zhang

Most anomaly detection systems output scores rather than calibrated decisions, leaving practitioners to choose thresholds heuristically and without clear statistical interpretation. Conformal anomaly detection addresses this limitation by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Oliver Hennhöfer , Maximilian Kirsch , Christine Preisach

Modern neural networks are known to give overconfident prediction for out-of-distribution inputs when deployed in the open world. It is common practice to leverage a surrogate outlier dataset to regularize the model during training, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Wenyu Jiang , Hao Cheng , Mingcai Chen , Chongjun Wang , Hongxin Wei

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) instances is crucial for the reliable deployment of machine learning models in real-world scenarios. OOD inputs are commonly expected to cause a more uncertain prediction in the primary task; however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Mohammad Azizmalayeri , Ameen Abu-Hanna , Giovanni Cinà