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Traditional anomaly detection methods aim to identify objects that deviate from most other objects by treating all features equally. In contrast, contextual anomaly detection methods aim to detect objects that deviate from other objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Zhong Li , Matthijs van Leeuwen

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

Anomaly detection seeks to identify unusual phenomena, a central task in science and industry. The task is inherently unsupervised as anomalies are unexpected and unknown during training. Recent advances in self-supervised representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tal Reiss , Niv Cohen , Eliahu Horwitz , Ron Abutbul , Yedid Hoshen

High-resolution 3D point clouds are highly effective for detecting subtle structural anomalies in industrial inspection. However, their dense and irregular nature imposes significant challenges, including high computational cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zi Wang , Katsuya Hotta , Koichiro Kamide , Yawen Zou , Chao Zhang , Jun Yu

Correlated anomaly detection (CAD) from streaming data is a type of group anomaly detection and an essential task in useful real-time data mining applications like botnet detection, financial event detection, industrial process monitor,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Zheng Chen , Xinli Yu , Yuan Ling , Bo Song , Wei Quan , Xiaohua Hu , Erjia Yan

This paper introduces a conformal inference method to evaluate uncertainty in classification by generating prediction sets with valid coverage conditional on adaptively chosen features. These features are carefully selected to reflect…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-31 Yanfei Zhou , Matteo Sesia

Despite inherent ill-definition, anomaly detection is a research endeavor of great interest within machine learning and visual scene understanding alike. Most commonly, anomaly detection is considered as the detection of outliers within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Samet Akçay , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Anomaly detection involves identifying instances within a dataset that deviate from the norm and occur infrequently. Current benchmarks tend to favor methods biased towards low diversity in normal data, which does not align with real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mohammad Akhavan Anvari , Rojina Kashefi , Vahid Reza Khazaie , Mohammad Khalooei , Mohammad Sabokrou

In this paper, we address the problem of detecting anomalies among a given set of binary processes via learning-based controlled sensing. Each process is parameterized by a binary random variable indicating whether the process is anomalous.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Geethu Joseph , Chen Zhong , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar , Pramod K. Varshney

Anomaly detection on the attributed network has recently received increasing attention in many research fields, such as cybernetic anomaly detection and financial fraud detection. With the wide application of deep learning on graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yuanjun Shi

In the present era of large scale surveys, big data presents new challenges to the discovery process for anomalous data. Such data can be indicative of systematic errors, extreme (or rare) forms of known phenomena, or most interestingly,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 Daniel Giles , Lucianne Walkowicz

Reconstruction error is a prevalent score used to identify anomalous samples when data are modeled by generative models, such as (variational) auto-encoders or generative adversarial networks. This score relies on the assumption that normal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-29 Václav Šmídl , Jan Bím , Tomáš Pevný

Anomaly detection methods identify examples that do not follow the expected behaviour, typically in an unsupervised fashion, by assigning real-valued anomaly scores to the examples based on various heuristics. These scores need to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Lorenzo Perini , Paul Buerkner , Arto Klami

Universal anomaly detection still remains a challenging problem in machine learning and medical image analysis. It is possible to learn an expected distribution from a single class of normative samples, e.g., through epistemic uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Johanna P. Müller , Matthew Baugh , Jeremy Tan , Mischa Dombrowski , Bernhard Kainz

Unsupervised anomaly detection is a daunting task, as it relies solely on normality patterns from the training data to identify unseen anomalies during testing. Recent approaches have focused on leveraging domain-specific transformations or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Hyuntae Kim , Changhee Lee

Tabular anomaly detection under the one-class classification setting poses a significant challenge, as it involves accurately conceptualizing "normal" derived exclusively from a single category to discern anomalies from normal data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jianan Ye , Zhaorui Tan , Yijie Hu , Xi Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Kaizhu Huang

This paper presents a simple yet effective method for anomaly detection. The main idea is to learn small perturbations to perturb normal data and learn a classifier to classify the normal data and the perturbed data into two different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinyu Cai , Jicong Fan

Deep Learning (DL) is vulnerable to out-of-distribution and adversarial examples resulting in incorrect outputs. To make DL more robust, several posthoc (or runtime) anomaly detection techniques to detect (and discard) these anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Saikiran Bulusu , Bhavya Kailkhura , Bo Li , Pramod K. Varshney , Dawn Song

Anomalies are intuitively easy for human experts to understand, but they are hard to define mathematically. Therefore, in order to have performance guarantees in unsupervised anomaly detection, priors need to be assumed on what the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-08 Tiago Pimentel , Marianne Monteiro , Adriano Veloso , Nivio Ziviani

This paper presents a novel anomaly and outlier detection algorithm from the SPINEX (Similarity-based Predictions with Explainable Neighbors Exploration) family. This algorithm leverages the concept of similarity and higher-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 MZ Naser , Ahmed Z Naser