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Log messages record important system runtime information and are useful for detecting anomalous behaviors and managing modern software systems. Many supervised and unsupervised learning methods have been proposed recently for log-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yiyuan Xiong , Shaofeng Cai

We develop a real-time anomaly detection algorithm for directed activity on large, sparse networks. We model the propensity for future activity using a dynamic logistic model with interaction terms for sender- and receiver-specific latent…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-01 Wesley Lee , Tyler H. McCormick , Joshua Neil , Cole Sodja , Yanran Cui

The complexity and ubiquity of modern computing systems is a fertile ground for anomalies, including security and privacy breaches. In this paper, we propose a new methodology that addresses the practical challenges to implement anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Charles F. Gonçalves , Daniel S. Menasché , Alberto Avritzer , Nuno Antunes , Marco Vieira

Analysis of an organization's computer network activity is a key component of early detection and mitigation of insider threat, a growing concern for many organizations. Raw system logs are a prototypical example of streaming data that can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Aaron Tuor , Samuel Kaplan , Brian Hutchinson , Nicole Nichols , Sean Robinson

A framework is proposed to detect anomalies in multi-modal data. A deep neural network-based object detector is employed to extract counts of objects and sub-events from the data. A cyclostationary model is proposed to model regular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-19 Taposh Banerjee , Gene Whipps , Prudhvi Gurram , Vahid Tarokh

Logs constitute a form of evidence signaling the operational status of software systems. Automated log anomaly detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of modern software systems. However, existing approaches face significant…

Anomalies represent rare observations (e.g., data records or events) that deviate significantly from others. Over several decades, research on anomaly mining has received increasing interests due to the implications of these occurrences in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Shan Xue , Jian Yang , Chuan Zhou , Quan Z. Sheng , Hui Xiong , Leman Akoglu

Log-based anomaly detection is a essential task for ensuring the reliability and performance of software systems. However, the performance of existing anomaly detection methods heavily relies on labeling, while labeling a large volume of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Chiming Duan , Minghua He , Pei Xiao , Tong Jia , Xin Zhang , Zhewei Zhong , Xiang Luo , Yan Niu , Lingzhe Zhang , Yifan Wu , Siyu Yu , Weijie Hong , Ying Li , Gang Huang

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

Logs provide users with useful insights to help with a variety of development and operations tasks. The problem is that logs are often unstructured, making their analysis a complex task. This is mainly due to the lack of guidelines and best…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Issam Sedki , Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj , Otmane Ait-Mohamed

In this paper we propose a novel machine-learning method for anomaly detection applicable to data with periodic characteristics where randomly varying period lengths are explicitly allowed. A multi-dimensional time series analysis is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Lia Ahrens , Julian Ahrens , Hans D. Schotten

In this work, a novel deep neural network, designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of unsupervised sound anomaly detection, is presented. The proposed model exploits an attention module and separable convolutions to identify…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Michael Neri , Marco Carli

Logs are an essential source of information for people to understand the running status of a software system. Due to the evolving modern software architecture and maintenance methods, more research efforts have been devoted to automated log…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xingfang Wu , Heng Li , Foutse Khomh

Anomaly detection in supercomputers is a very difficult problem due to the big scale of the systems and the high number of components. The current state of the art for automated anomaly detection employs Machine Learning methods or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Andrea Borghesi , Andrea Bartolini , Michele Lombardi , Michela Milano , Luca Benini

Log anomaly detection has become a common practice for software engineers to analyze software system behavior. Despite significant research efforts in log anomaly detection over the past decade, it remains unclear what are practitioners'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiaoxue Ma , Yishu Li , Jacky Keung , Xiao Yu , Huiqi Zou , Zhen Yang , Federica Sarro , Earl T. Barr

Uncertain data streams have been widely generated in many Web applications. The uncertainty in data streams makes anomaly detection from sensor data streams far more challenging. In this paper, we present a novel framework that supports…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Jiangang Ma , Le Sun , Hua Wang , Yanchun Zhang , Uwe Aickelin

With the popularity and development of the wearable devices such as smartphones, human activity recognition (HAR) based on sensors has become as a key research area in human computer interaction and ubiquitous computing. The emergence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Kun Wang , Jun He , Lei Zhang

Much attention has been given to automatic sleep staging algorithms in past years, but the detection of discrete events in sleep studies is also crucial for precise characterization of sleep patterns and possible diagnosis of sleep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Alexander Neergaard Olesen , Stanislas Chambon , Valentin Thorey , Poul Jennum , Emmanuel Mignot , Helge B. D. Sorensen

Organizations rely heavily on time series metrics to measure and model key aspects of operational and business performance. The ability to reliably detect issues with these metrics is imperative to identifying early indicators of major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Sayan Chakraborty , Smit Shah , Kiumars Soltani , Anna Swigart , Luyao Yang , Kyle Buckingham

Anomaly detection is the task of identifying abnormal behavior of a system. Anomaly detection in computational workflows is of special interest because of its wide implications in various domains such as cybersecurity, finance, and social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Hongwei Jin , Krishnan Raghavan , George Papadimitriou , Cong Wang , Anirban Mandal , Ewa Deelman , Prasanna Balaprakash