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Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to discover behaviors or events deviating from the normality in videos. As a long-standing task in the field of computer vision, VAD has witnessed much good progress. In the era of deep learning, with the…

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Time series anomaly detection is crucial for maintaining stable systems. Existing methods face two main challenges. First, it is difficult to directly model the dependencies of diverse and complex patterns within the sequences. Second, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wenxin Zhang , Cuicui Luo

Deep learning approaches to anomaly detection have recently improved the state of the art in detection performance on complex datasets such as large collections of images or text. These results have sparked a renewed interest in the anomaly…

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

Detection of anomalous situations for complex mission-critical systems hold paramount importance when their service continuity needs to be ensured. A major challenge in detecting anomalies from the operational data arises due to the…

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Due to the veracity and heterogeneity in network traffic, detecting anomalous events is challenging. The computational load on global servers is a significant challenge in terms of efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Our primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 William Marfo , Deepak K. Tosh , Shirley V. Moore

In recommendation systems, items are likely to be exposed to various users and we would like to learn about the familiarity of a new user with an existing item. This can be formulated as an anomaly detection (AD) problem distinguishing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Ke Bai , Aonan Zhang , Zhizhong Li , Ricardo Heano , Chong Wang , Lawrence Carin

Pursuing fast and robust interpretability in Anomaly Detection is crucial, especially due to its significance in practical applications. Traditional Anomaly Detection methods excel in outlier identification but are often black-boxes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Valentina Zaccaria , David Dandolo , Chiara Masiero , Gian Antonio Susto

A method for unsupervised contextual anomaly detection is proposed using a cross-linked pair of Variational Auto-Encoders for assigning a normality score to an observation. The method enables a distinct separation of contextual from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-02 Yaniv Shulman

Weakly-supervised anomaly detection can outperform existing unsupervised methods with the assistance of a very small number of labeled anomalies, which attracts increasing attention from researchers. However, existing weakly-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Xu Tan , Junqi Chen , Sylwan Rahardja , Jiawei Yang , Susanto Rahardja

Anomalies are occurrences in a dataset that are in some way unusual and do not fit the general patterns. The concept of the anomaly is typically ill-defined and perceived as vague and domain-dependent. Moreover, despite some 250 years of…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Ralph Foorthuis

High false-positive rate is a long-standing challenge for anomaly detection algorithms, especially in high-stake applications. To identify the true anomalies, in practice, analysts or domain experts will be employed to investigate the top…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Daochen Zha , Kwei-Herng Lai , Mingyang Wan , Xia Hu

Anomaly detection in complex dynamical systems is essential for ensuring reliability, safety, and efficiency in industrial and cyber-physical infrastructures. Predictive maintenance helps prevent costly failures, while cybersecurity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Michael Somma , Thomas Gallien , Branka Stojanovic

Learning representations that clearly distinguish between normal and abnormal data is key to the success of anomaly detection. Most of existing anomaly detection algorithms use activation representations from forward propagation while not…

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Generative models based on variational autoencoders are a popular technique for detecting anomalies in images in a semi-supervised context. A common approach employs the anomaly score to detect the presence of anomalies, and it is known to…

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Logs play a crucial role in system monitoring and debugging by recording valuable system information, including events and states. Although various methods have been proposed to detect anomalies in log sequences, they often overlook the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yufei Li , Yanchi Liu , Haoyu Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Wei Cheng , Yuncong Chen , Wenchao Yu , Haifeng Chen , Cong Liu

Most anomaly detection systems try to model normal behavior and assume anomalies deviate from it in diverse manners. However, there may be patterns in the anomalies as well. Ideally, an anomaly detection system can exploit patterns in both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jonas Soenen , Elia Van Wolputte , Vincent Vercruyssen , Wannes Meert , Hendrik Blockeel

Detecting anomalies in large, distributed systems presents several challenges. The first challenge arises from the sheer volume of data that needs to be processed. Flagging anomalies in a high-throughput environment calls for a careful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Anupam Panwar , Himadri Pal , Jiali Chen , Kyle Cho , Riddick Jiang , Miao Zhao , Rajiv Krishnamurthy

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is crucial for identifying abnormal entities within networks, garnering significant attention across various fields. Traditional unsupervised methods, which decode encoded latent representations of unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jinghan Li , Yuan Gao , Jinda Lu , Junfeng Fang , Congcong Wen , Hui Lin , Xiang Wang

Time series anomaly detection is a critical machine learning task for numerous applications, such as finance, healthcare, and industrial systems. However, even high-performing models may exhibit potential issues such as biases, leading to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ziquan Deng , Xiwei Xuan , Kwan-Liu Ma , Zhaodan Kong