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We propose an algorithm for detecting patterns exhibited by anomalous clusters in high dimensional discrete data. Unlike most anomaly detection (AD) methods, which detect individual anomalies, our proposed method detects groups (clusters)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-23 Hossein Soleimani , David J. Miller

Exploiting the rapid advances in probabilistic inference, in particular variational Bayes and variational autoencoders (VAEs), for anomaly detection (AD) tasks remains an open research question. Previous works argued that training VAE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Adrian Alan Pol , Victor Berger , Gianluca Cerminara , Cecile Germain , Maurizio Pierini

Searches for new resonances are performed using an unsupervised anomaly-detection technique. Events with at least one electron or muon are selected from 140 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV recorded by ATLAS at the Large…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-02-22 ATLAS Collaboration

The CMS detector is a general-purpose apparatus that detects high-energy collisions produced at the LHC. Online Data Quality Monitoring of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter is a vital operational tool that allows detector experts to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-27 The CMS ECAL Collaboration

Anomaly detection is a ubiquitous and challenging task relevant across many disciplines. With the vital role communication networks play in our daily lives, the security of these networks is imperative for smooth functioning of society. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Gopikrishna Rathinavel , Nikhil Muralidhar , Timothy O'Shea , Naren Ramakrishnan

In this paper, we present a memory-augmented algorithm for anomaly detection. Classical anomaly detection algorithms focus on learning to model and generate normal data, but typically guarantees for detecting anomalous data are weak. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Ziyi Yang , Teng Zhang , Iman Soltani Bozchalooi , Eric Darve

Anomaly detection (AD) is a crucial machine learning task that aims to learn patterns from a set of normal training samples to identify abnormal samples in test data. Most existing AD studies assume that the training and test data are drawn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tri Cao , Jiawen Zhu , Guansong Pang

In this work, we present a novel approach to transform supervised classifiers into effective unsupervised anomaly detectors. The method we have developed, termed Discriminatory Detection of Distortions (DDD), enhances anomaly detection by…

Unsupervised anomaly detection (AD) is critical for a wide range of practical applications, from network security to health and medical tools. Due to the diversity of problems, no single algorithm has been found to be superior for all AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Małgorzata Gutowska , Suzanne Little , Andrew McCarren

The task of graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) is to identify anomalous graphs that deviate significantly from the majority of graphs in a dataset. While deep GLAD methods have shown promising performance, their black-box nature limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qiuran Zhao , Kai Ming Ting , Xinpeng Li

We study the LHC sensitivity to new broad neutral resonances produced in two-photon fusion and decaying to a top quark pair, $\gamma\gamma \to t\bar{t}$. This is probed in central exclusive $t\bar{t}$ production in proton-proton collisions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Cristian Baldenegro , Andrea Bellora , Sylvain Fichet , Gero von Gersdorff , Michael Pitt , Christophe Royon

We apply several machine learning algorithms to the problem of anomaly detection in operational data for large-scale, high-voltage electric power grids. We observe important differences in the performance of the algorithms. Neural networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Marc Gillioz , Guillaume Dubuis , Étienne Voutaz , Philippe Jacquod

Anomaly detection is a difficult problem in many areas and has recently been subject to a lot of attention. Classifying unseen data as anomalous is a challenging matter. Latest proposed methods rely on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Pierrick Chatillon , Coloma Ballester

Human analysts that use anomaly detection systems in practice want to retain the use of simple and explainable global anomaly detectors. In this paper, we propose a novel human-in-the-loop learning algorithm called GLAD (GLocalized Anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Md Rakibul Islam , Shubhomoy Das , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Sriraam Natarajan

Anomaly detection (AD) aims to identify defective images and localize their defects (if any). Ideally, AD models should be able to detect defects over many image classes; without relying on hard-coded class names that can be uninformative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Chih-Hui Ho , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Nuno Vasconcelos

Anomaly detection in High Energy Physics requires identifying rare signals against overwhelming backgrounds, without prior knowledge of the signal. We present the first application of masked-token prediction, a technique from Large Language…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Ambre Visive , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Polina Moskvitina , Clara Nellist , Sascha Caron

A growing number of weak- and unsupervised machine learning approaches to anomaly detection are being proposed to significantly extend the search program at the Large Hadron Collider and elsewhere. One of the prototypical examples for these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Kees Benkendorfer , Luc Le Pottier , Benjamin Nachman

In recent years, interest has grown in alternative strategies for the search for New Physics beyond the Standard Model. One envisaged solution lies in the development of anomaly detection algorithms based on unsupervised machine learning…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-08 Louis Vaslin , Vincent Barra , Julien Donini

With the high requirements of automation in the era of Industry 4.0, anomaly detection plays an increasingly important role in higher safety and reliability in the production and manufacturing industry. Recently, autoencoders have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Yiwen Liao , Alexander Bartler , Bin Yang

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC employs comprehensive data quality monitoring procedures to ensure high-quality physics data. This contribution presents a long short-term memory autoencoder-based algorithm for detecting anomalies in ATLAS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-09 Vilius Čepaitis