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Reliable confidence estimation for deep neural classifiers is a challenging yet fundamental requirement in high-stakes applications. Unfortunately, modern deep neural networks are often overconfident for their erroneous predictions. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Fei Zhu , Zhen Cheng , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

Outlier detection amounts to finding data points that differ significantly from the norm. Classic outlier detection methods are largely designed for single data type such as continuous or discrete. However, real world data is increasingly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-18 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

In a network meta-analysis, some of the collected studies may deviate markedly from the others, for example having very unusual effect sizes. These deviating studies can be regarded as outlying with respect to the rest of the network and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-11 Silvia Metelli , Dimitris Mavridis , Perrine Créquit , Anna Chaimani

From the past decade outlier detection has been in use. Detection of outliers is an emerging topic and is having robust applications in medical sciences and pharmaceutical sciences. Outlier detection is used to detect anomalous behaviour of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-12-13 Doreswamy , Chanabasayya . M. Vastrad

The neighbor-based method has become a powerful tool to handle the outlier detection problem, which aims to infer the abnormal degree of the sample based on the compactness of the sample and its neighbors. However, the existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Zhuang Qi , Junlin Zhang , Xiaming Chen , Xin Qi

We present different methods of unsupervised learning which can be used for outlier detection in high energy nuclear collisions. The UrQMD model is used to generate the bulk background of events as well as different variants of outlier…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-05-26 Punnathat Thaprasop , Kai Zhou , Jan Steinheimer , Christoph Herold

Dynamic factor models have a wide range of applications in econometrics and applied economics. The basic motivation resides in their capability of reducing a large set of time series to only few indicators (factors). If the number of time…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Roberto Baragona , Francesco Battaglia

Outlier or anomaly detection is an important task in data analysis. We discuss the problem from a geometrical perspective and provide a framework that exploits the metric structure of a data set. Our approach rests on the manifold…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-01 Moritz Herrmann , Florian Pfisterer , Fabian Scheipl

Feature selection places an important role in improving the performance of outlier detection, especially for noisy data. Existing methods usually perform feature selection and outlier scoring separately, which would select feature subsets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Li Cheng , Yijie Wang , Xinwang Liu , Bin Li

This paper considers the problem of recovering signals from compressed measurements contaminated with sparse outliers, which has arisen in many applications. In this paper, we propose a generative model neural network approach for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Jirong Yi , Anh Duc Le , Tianming Wang , Xiaodong Wu , Weiyu Xu

Anomaly detection is being regarded as an unsupervised learning task as anomalies stem from adversarial or unlikely events with unknown distributions. However, the predictive performance of purely unsupervised anomaly detection often fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Nico Goernitz , Marius Micha Kloft , Konrad Rieck , Ulf Brefeld

We revisit sequential outlier hypothesis testing and derive bounds on achievable exponents when both the nominal and anomalous distributions are unknown. The task of outlier hypothesis testing is to identify the set of outliers that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jun Diao , Lin Zhou

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for developing trustworthy and reliable machine learning systems. Recent advances in training with auxiliary OOD data demonstrate efficacy in enhancing detection capabilities. Nonetheless,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Hengzhuang Li , Teng Zhang

This work describes an outlier detection procedure (named "OutlierTree") loosely based on the GritBot software developed by RuleQuest research, which works by evaluating and following supervised decision tree splits on variables, in whose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-06 David Cortes

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

Considering a common case where measurements are obtained from independent sensors, we present a novel outlier-robust filter for nonlinear dynamical systems in this work. The proposed method is devised by modifying the measurement model and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Aamir Hussain Chughtai , Muhammad Tahir , Momin Uppal

Notwithstanding the popularity of conventional clustering algorithms such as K-means and probabilistic clustering, their clustering results are sensitive to the presence of outliers in the data. Even a few outliers can compromise the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-27 Pedro A. Forero , Vassilis Kekatos , Georgios B. Giannakis

It has become routine in neuroscience studies to measure brain networks for different individuals using neuroimaging. These networks are typically expressed as adjacency matrices, with each cell containing a summary of connectivity between…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-30 Pritam Dey , Zhengwu Zhang , David B. Dunson

This paper develops a flexible distribution-free method for collective outlier detection and enumeration, designed for situations in which the presence of outliers can be detected powerfully even though their precise identification may be…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Chiara G. Magnani , Matteo Sesia , Aldo Solari

Most of the existing methods for anomaly detection use only positive data to learn the data distribution, thus they usually need a pre-defined threshold at the detection stage to determine whether a test instance is an outlier.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Kai Tian , Shuigeng Zhou , Jianping Fan , Jihong Guan