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To ensure the performance of online service systems, their status is closely monitored with various software and system metrics. Performance anomalies represent the performance degradation issues (e.g., slow response) of the service…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhuangbin Chen , Jinyang Liu , Yuxin Su , Hongyu Zhang , Xiao Ling , Yongqiang Yang , Michael R. Lyu

Incipient anomalies present milder symptoms compared to severe ones, and are more difficult to detect and diagnose due to their close resemblance to normal operating conditions. The lack of incipient anomaly examples in the training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Yingshui Tan , Baihong Jin , Qiushi Cui , Xiangyu Yue , Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli

Anomaly detection (AD) is an important machine learning task with many real-world uses, including fraud detection, medical diagnosis, and industrial monitoring. Within natural language processing (NLP), AD helps detect issues like spam,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tiankai Yang , Yi Nian , Shawn Li , Ruiyao Xu , Yuangang Li , Jiaqi Li , Zhuo Xiao , Xiyang Hu , Ryan Rossi , Kaize Ding , Xia Hu , Yue Zhao

Anomaly detection is referred to as a process in which the aim is to detect data points that follow a different pattern from the majority of data points. Anomaly detection methods suffer from several well-known challenges that hinder their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kasra Babaei , Zhi Yuan Chen , Tomas Maul

Evaluating a neural network on an input that differs markedly from the training data might cause erratic and flawed predictions. We study a method that judges the unusualness of an input by evaluating its informative content compared to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Jörg Martin , Clemens Elster

One-class anomaly detection aims to detect objects that do not belong to a predefined normal class. In practice training data lack those anomalous samples; hence state-of-the-art methods are trained to discriminate between normal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Romain Hermary , Vincent Gaudillière , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Djamila Aouada

Linting tools automatically identify source code fragments that do not follow a set of predefined standards. Such feedback tools are equally desirable for "linting" agile development processes. However, providing concrete feedback on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Christoph Matthies , Thomas Kowark , Keven Richly , Matthias Uflacker , Hasso Plattner

Anomaly detection for time-series data has been an important research field for a long time. Seminal work on anomaly detection methods has been focussing on statistical approaches. In recent years an increasing number of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Mohammad Braei , Sebastian Wagner

Anomaly detection is of great interest in fields where abnormalities need to be identified and corrected (e.g., medicine and finance). Deep learning methods for this task often rely on autoencoder reconstruction error, sometimes in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Alexander Tong , Guy Wolf , Smita Krishnaswamy

Given a long list of anomaly detection algorithms developed in the last few decades, how do they perform with regard to (i) varying levels of supervision, (ii) different types of anomalies, and (iii) noisy and corrupted data? In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Songqiao Han , Xiyang Hu , Hailiang Huang , Mingqi Jiang , Yue Zhao

Block-based programming languages like Scratch have become increasingly popular as introductory languages for novices. These languages are intended to be used with a "tinkering" approach which allows learners and teachers to quickly…

Deep learning-based methods have achieved a breakthrough in image anomaly detection, but their complexity introduces a considerable challenge to understanding why an instance is predicted to be anomalous. We introduce a novel explanation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Philipp Liznerski , Saurabh Varshneya , Ece Calikus , Puyu Wang , Alexander Bartscher , Sebastian Josef Vollmer , Sophie Fellenz , Marius Kloft

Time series anomaly detection is instrumental in maintaining system availability in various domains. Current work in this research line mainly focuses on learning data normality deeply and comprehensively by devising advanced neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Hongzuo Xu , Yijie Wang , Songlei Jian , Qing Liao , Yongjun Wang , Guansong Pang

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

We propose a meta learning framework for detecting anomalies in human language across diverse domains with limited labeled data. Anomalies in language ranging from spam and fake news to hate speech pose a major challenge due to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Saurav Singla , Aarav Singla , Advik Gupta , Parnika Gupta

Anomaly detection, a.k.a. outlier detection or novelty detection, has been a lasting yet active research area in various research communities for several decades. There are still some unique problem complexities and challenges that require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Longbing Cao , Anton van den Hengel

There is a growing need for machine learning-based anomaly detection strategies to broaden the search for Beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and elsewhere. The first step of any anomaly detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Gregor Kasieczka , Radha Mastandrea , Vinicius Mikuni , Benjamin Nachman , Mariel Pettee , David Shih

A stable, reliable, and controllable orbit lock system is crucial to an electron (or ion) accelerator because the beam orbit and beam energy instability strongly affect the quality of the beam delivered to experimental halls. Currently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhiyuan Chen , Wei Lu , Radhika Bhong , Yimin Hu , Brian Freeman , Adam Carpenter

The nodes' interconnections on a social network often reflect their dependencies and information-sharing behaviors. Nevertheless, abnormal nodes, which significantly deviate from most of the network concerning patterns or behaviors, can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiaotong Cheng , Setareh Maghsudi

Anomaly detection aims at identifying unexpected fluctuations in the expected behavior of a given system. It is acknowledged as a reliable answer to the identification of zero-day attacks to such extent, several ML algorithms that suit for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Tommaso Zoppi , Andrea ceccarelli , Tommaso Capecchi , Andrea Bondavalli