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In the past decade, the cyber-crime related to mobile devices has increased. Mobile devices, especially the ones running on Android operating system are particularly interesting to malware creators, as the users often keep the biggest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Nikola Milosevic , Junfan Huang

Software logs record system activities, aiding maintainers in identifying the underlying causes for failures and enabling prompt mitigation actions. However, maintainers need to inspect a large volume of daily logs to identify the anomalous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Yintong Huo , Cheryl Lee , Yuxin Su , Shiwen Shan , Jinyang Liu , Michael R. Lyu

As software systems grow increasingly intricate, the precise detection of anomalies have become both essential and challenging. Current log-based anomaly detection methods depend heavily on vast amounts of log data leading to inefficient…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Lingzhe Zhang , Tong Jia , Kangjin Wang , Mengxi Jia , Yang Yong , Ying Li

We study anomaly detection and introduce an algorithm that processes variable length, irregularly sampled sequences or sequences with missing values. Our algorithm is fully unsupervised, however, can be readily extended to supervised or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-26 Oguzhan Karaahmetoglu , Fatih Ilhan , Ismail Balaban , Suleyman Serdar Kozat

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shanay Mehta , Shlok Mehendale , Nicole Fernandes , Jyotirmoy Sarkar , Santonu Sarkar , Snehanshu Saha

Anomaly detection is a crucial and challenging subject that has been studied within diverse research areas. In this work, we explore the task of log anomaly detection (especially computer system logs and user behavior logs) by analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yicheng Guo , Yujin Wen , Congwei Jiang , Yixin Lian , Yi Wan

Anomaly detection for non-linear dynamical system plays an important role in ensuring the system stability. However, it is usually complex and has to be solved by large-scale simulation which requires extensive computing resources. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-08 Yue Tan , Chunjing Hu , Kuan Zhang , Kan Zheng , Ethan A. Davis , Jae Sung Park

Businesses are naturally interested in detecting anomalies in their internal processes, because these can be indicators for fraud and inefficiencies. Within the domain of business intelligence, classic anomaly detection is not very…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Timo Nolle , Stefan Luettgen , Alexander Seeliger , Max Mühlhäuser

Identification of anomalous events within system logs constitutes a pivotal element within the frame- work of cybersecurity defense strategies. However, this process faces numerous challenges, including the management of substantial data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zeng Zhang , Wenjie Yin , Xiaoqi Li

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

The identification of undesirable behavior in event logs is an important aspect of process mining that is often addressed by anomaly detection methods. Traditional anomaly detection methods tend to focus on statistically rare behavior and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Kiran Busch , Timotheus Kampik , Henrik Leopold

Autonomous LLM agents generate multi-step action plans that can fail due to contextual misalignment or structural incoherence. Existing anomaly detection methods are ill-suited for this challenge: mean-pooling embeddings dilutes anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Laksh Advani

Modern computing systems, such as HDFS and Spark, produce vast quantities of logs that developers use for tasks like anomaly detection and error analysis. To simplify log analysis, template generation methods have been proposed to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Fei Teng , Haoyang Li , Lei Chen

Anomaly detection is the task of detecting data which differs from the normal behaviour of a system in a given context. In order to approach this problem, data-driven models can be learned to predict current or future observations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Benedikt Eiteneuer , Oliver Niggemann

Students interactions while solving problems in learning environments (i.e. log data) are often used to support students learning. For example, researchers use log data to develop systems that can provide students with personalized problem…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Alex Hicks , Yang Shi , Arun-Balajiee Lekshmi-Narayanan , Wei Yan , Samiha Marwan

Anomalies refer to data points or events that deviate from normal and homogeneous events, which can include fraudulent activities, network infiltrations, equipment malfunctions, process changes, or other significant but infrequent events.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Ahmed Shoyeb Raihan , Imtiaz Ahmed

This project explores large language models (LLMs) for anomaly detection across heterogeneous log sources. Traditional intrusion detection systems suffer from high false positive rates, semantic blindness, and data scarcity, as logs are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yassine Chagna , Antal Goldschmidt

Log data anomaly detection is a core component in the area of artificial intelligence for IT operations. However, the large amount of existing methods makes it hard to choose the right approach for a specific system. A better understanding…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Thorsten Wittkopp , Philipp Wiesner , Dominik Scheinert , Odej Kao

With the growth of online services, IoT devices, and DevOps-oriented software development, software log anomaly detection is becoming increasingly important. Prior works mainly follow a traditional four-staged architecture (Preprocessor,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shayan Hashemi , Mika Mäntylä

Health monitoring is important for maintaining reliable information and communications technology (ICT) systems. Anomaly detection methods based on machine learning, which train a model for describing "normality" are promising for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Kengo Tajiri , Yasuhiro Ikeda , Yuusuke Nakano , Keishiro Watanabe