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Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) aims to detect anomalies without labeled data, a necessity in many machine learning applications where anomalous samples are rare or not available. Most state-of-the-art methods fall into two categories:…

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While the mainstream research in anomaly detection has mainly followed the one-class classification, practical industrial environments often incur noisy training data due to annotation errors or lack of labels for new or refurbished…

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Complete anomaly detection strategies that are both signal sensitive and compatible with background estimation have largely focused on resonant signals. Non-resonant new physics scenarios are relatively under-explored and may arise from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-08 Kehang Bai , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

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

Resonant anomaly detection is a promising framework for model-independent searches for new particles. Weakly supervised resonant anomaly detection methods compare data with a potential signal against a template of the Standard Model (SM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-16 Tobias Golling , Samuel Klein , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

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

We introduce a new technique named Latent CATHODE (LaCATHODE) for performing "enhanced bump hunts", a type of resonant anomaly search that combines conventional one-dimensional bump hunts with a model-agnostic anomaly score in an auxiliary…

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Anomaly detection - identifying deviations from Standard Model predictions - is a key challenge at the Large Hadron Collider due to the size and complexity of its datasets. This is typically addressed by transforming high-dimensional…

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Mainstream unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms often excel in academic datasets, yet their real-world performance is restricted due to the controlled experimental conditions involving clean training data. Addressing the challenge of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Thi Kieu Khanh Ho , Narges Armanfard

Anomaly detection is a significant and hence well-studied problem. However, developing effective anomaly detection methods for complex and high-dimensional data remains a challenge. As Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Houssam Zenati , Manon Romain , Chuan Sheng Foo , Bruno Lecouat , Vijay Ramaseshan Chandrasekhar

We introduce a new semi-supervised, time series anomaly detection algorithm that uses deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and active learning to efficiently learn and adapt to anomalies in real-world time series data. Our model - called RLAD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Tong Wu , Jorge Ortiz

Modern machine learning tools offer exciting possibilities to qualitatively change the paradigm for new particle searches. In particular, new methods can broaden the search program by gaining sensitivity to unforeseen scenarios by learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Benjamin Nachman

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

Continuous efforts are being made to advance anomaly detection in various manufacturing processes to increase the productivity and safety of industrial sites. Deep learning replaced rule-based methods and recently emerged as a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Kukjin Choi , Jihun Yi , Jisoo Mok , Sungroh Yoon

Modern machine learning techniques can be used to construct powerful models for difficult collider physics problems. In many applications, however, these models are trained on imperfect simulations due to a lack of truth-level information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-21 Eric M. Metodiev , Benjamin Nachman , Jesse Thaler

Open-set supervised anomaly detection (OSAD) - a recently emerging anomaly detection area - aims at utilizing a few samples of anomaly classes seen during training to detect unseen anomalies (i.e., samples from open-set anomaly classes),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jiawen Zhu , Choubo Ding , Yu Tian , Guansong Pang

The accumulation of time-series signals and the absence of labels make time-series Anomaly Detection (AD) a self-supervised task of deep learning. Methods based on normality assumptions face the following three limitations: (1) A single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xudong Mou , Rui Wang , Bo Li , Tianyu Wo , Jie Sun , Hui Wang , Xudong Liu

At the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the rate of proton-proton collisions far exceeds the rate at which data can be recorded. A real-time event selection process, or "trigger", is needed to ensure that the data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-10 Noah Clarke Hall , Nikolaos Konstantinidis

High-dimensional feature spaces in particle physics events pose a fundamental challenge to density-estimation-based weakly supervised anomaly detection, whose fidelity degrades rapidly with an increasing number of dimensions. We propose a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Runze Li , Benjamin Nachman , Dennis Noll

Although deep learning has been applied to successfully address many data mining problems, relatively limited work has been done on deep learning for anomaly detection. Existing deep anomaly detection methods, which focus on learning new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel