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Outlier explanation is the task of identifying a set of features that distinguish a sample from normal data, which is important for downstream (human) decision-making. Existing methods are based on beam search in the space of feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Stefan Lüdtke , Christian Bartelt , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

Outlier detection is a fundamental data science task with applications ranging from data cleaning to network security. Given the fundamental nature of the task, this has been the subject of much research. Recently, a new class of outlier…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Jiongqian Liang , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Various technologies, including computer vision models, are employed for the automatic monitoring of manual assembly processes in production. These models detect and classify events such as the presence of components in an assembly area or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Anton Sergeev , Victor Minchenkov , Aleksei Soldatov , Vasiliy Kakurin , Yaroslav Mazikov

Outlier generation is a popular technique used for solving important outlier detection tasks. Generating outliers with realistic behavior is challenging. Popular existing methods tend to disregard the 'multiple views' property of outliers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Jose Cribeiro-Ramallo , Vadim Arzamasov , Klemens Böhm

We propose a new outlier detection method for multi-dimensional data. The method detects outliers based on vector cosine similarity, using a new dataset constructed by adding a dimension with zero values to the original data. When a point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhongyang Shen

Recent advances in technology have brought major breakthroughs in data collection, enabling a large amount of data to be gathered over time and thus generating time series. Mining this data has become an important task for researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Ane Blázquez-García , Angel Conde , Usue Mori , Jose A. Lozano

Anomaly detection remains an open challenge in many application areas. While there are a number of available machine learning algorithms for detecting anomalies, analysts are frequently asked to take additional steps in reasoning about the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Brian Montambault , Camelia D. Brumar , Michael Behrisch , Remco Chang

Outliers widely occur in big-data applications and may severely affect statistical estimation and inference. In this paper, a framework of outlier-resistant estimation is introduced to robustify an arbitrarily given loss function. It has a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-20 Yiyuan She , Zhifeng Wang , Jiahui Shen

Zero adjusted regression models are used to fit variables that are discrete at zero and continuous at some interval of the positive real numbers. Diagnostic analysis in these models is usually performed using the randomized quantile…

Reliable outlier detection in high-dimensional data is crucial in modern science, yet it remains a challenging task. Traditional methods often break down in these settings due to their reliance on asymptotic behaviors with respect to sample…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-05 Seong-ho Lee , Yongho Jeon

Detecting a small number of outliers from a set of data observations is always challenging. This problem is more difficult in the setting of multiple network samples, where computing the anomalous degree of a network sample is generally not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Xuan-Hong Dang , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh , Ananthram Swami , Prithwish Basu

Outlying observations can be challenging to handle and adversely affect subsequent analyses, especially in data with increasing dimensional complexity. Although outliers are not always undesired anomalies in the data and may possess…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-18 Anthony-Alexander Christidis , Gabriela Cohen-Freue

Outlier detection is a core task in data mining with a plethora of algorithms that have enjoyed wide scale usage. Existing algorithms are primarily focused on detection, that is the identification of outliers in a given dataset. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Yue Wu , Leman Akoglu , Ian Davidson

Outlier detection is a fundamental task in data mining and has many applications including detecting errors in databases. While there has been extensive prior work on methods for outlier detection, modern datasets often have sizes that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Laure Berti-Equille , Ji Meng Loh , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan

We introduce and develop a novel approach to outlier detection based on adaptation of random subspace learning. Our proposed method handles both high-dimension low-sample size and traditional low-dimensional high-sample size datasets.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-05 Bohan Liu , Ernest Fokoue

Outlier detection is an essential capability in safety-critical applications of supervised visual recognition. Most of the existing methods deliver best results by encouraging standard closed-set models to produce low-confidence predictions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Anja Delić , Matej Grcić , Siniša Šegvić

It is important to detect anomalous inputs when deploying machine learning systems. The use of larger and more complex inputs in deep learning magnifies the difficulty of distinguishing between anomalous and in-distribution examples. At the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Dan Hendrycks , Mantas Mazeika , Thomas Dietterich

Outlier detection (OD), distinguishing inliers and outliers in completely unlabeled datasets, plays a vital role in science and engineering. Although there have been many insightful OD methods, most of them require troublesome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dazhi Fu , Jicong Fan

This paper considers the problem of recovering signals modeled by generative models from linear measurements contaminated with sparse outliers. We propose an outlier detection approach for reconstructing the ground-truth signals modeled by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-17 Jirong Yi , Jingchao Gao , Tianming Wang , Xiaodong Wu , Weiyu Xu

In this paper we introduce a new method for detecting outliers in a set of proportions. It is based on the construction of a suitable two-way contingency table and on the application of an algorithm for the detection of outlying cells in…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-04 Flavio Mignone , Fabio Rapallo