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We present a novel method for anomaly detection in Solar System object data, in preparation for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. We train a deep autoencoder for anomaly detection and use the learned latent space to search for other…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 Brian Rogers , Chris J. Lintott , Steve Croft , Megan E. Schwamb , James R. A. Davenport

We introduce a powerful student-teacher framework for the challenging problem of unsupervised anomaly detection and pixel-precise anomaly segmentation in high-resolution images. Student networks are trained to regress the output of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Paul Bergmann , Michael Fauser , David Sattlegger , Carsten Steger

Event time series are sequences of discrete events occurring at irregular time intervals, each associated with a domain-specific observational modality. They are common in domains such as high-energy astrophysics, computational social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Steven Dillmann , Juan Rafael Martínez-Galarza

Topology inference is a powerful tool to better understand the behaviours of network systems (NSs). Different from most of prior works, this paper is dedicated to inferring the directed topology of NSs from noisy observations, where the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Qing Jiao , Yushan Li , Jianping He

Autoencoders have achieved great success in various computer vision applications. The autoencoder learns appropriate low dimensional image representations through the self-supervised paradigm, i.e., reconstruction. Existing studies mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jianzhang Zheng , Hao Shen , Jian Yang , Xuan Tang , Mingsong Chen , Hui Yu , Jielong Guo , Xian Wei

This paper describes the systematic application of local topological methods for detecting interfaces and related anomalies in complicated high-dimensional data. By examining the topology of small regions around each point, one can…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Bernadette J Stolz , Jared Tanner , Heather A Harrington , Vidit Nanda

Visualization is a crucial step in exploratory data analysis. One possible approach is to train an autoencoder with low-dimensional latent space. Large network depth and width can help unfolding the data. However, such expressive networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Philipp Nazari , Sebastian Damrich , Fred A. Hamprecht

Multivariate time series anomaly detection is a crucial problem in many industrial and research applications. Timely detection of anomalies allows, for instance, to prevent defects in manufacturing processes and failures in cyberphysical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Marcin Pietroń , Dominik Żurek , Kamil Faber , Roberto Corizzo

Deep generative models for anomaly detection in multivariate time-series are typically trained by maximizing data likelihood. However, likelihood in observation space measures marginal density rather than conformity to structured temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 David Baumgartner , Eliezer de Souza da Silva , Iñigo Urteaga

Autoencoders are popular among neural-network-based matrix completion models due to their ability to retrieve potential latent factors from the partially observed matrices. Nevertheless, when training data is scarce their performance is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Duc Minh Nguyen , Evaggelia Tsiligianni , Robert Calderbank , Nikos Deligiannis

While much work has been devoted to understanding the implicit (and explicit) regularization of deep nonlinear networks in the supervised setting, this paper focuses on unsupervised learning, i.e., autoencoders are trained with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Harald Steck , Dario Garcia Garcia

Autoencoders receive latent models of input data. It was shown in recent works that they also estimate probability density functions of the input. This fact makes using the Bayesian decision theory possible. If we obtain latent models of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Vasily Morzhakov

Many real-world monitoring and surveillance applications require non-trivial anomaly detection to be run in the streaming model. We consider an incremental-learning approach, wherein a deep-autoencoding (DAE) model of what is normal is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Albert Akhriev , Jakub Marecek

Due to the limited availability of anomalous samples for training, video anomaly detection is commonly viewed as a one-class classification problem. Many prevalent methods investigate the reconstruction difference produced by AutoEncoders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Xiangyu Huang , Caidan Zhao , Chenxing Gao , Lvdong Chen , Zhiqiang Wu

Abnormal event detection in video is a complex computer vision problem that has attracted significant attention in recent years. The complexity of the task arises from the commonly-adopted definition of an abnormal event, that is, a rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Marius Popescu , Mubarak Shah

The classification of electron systems according to their topology has been at the forefront of condensed matter research in recent years. It has been found that systems of the same symmetry, previously thought of as equivalent, may in fact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-09 Jan Borchmann , Aaron Farrell , Shunji Matsuura , T. Pereg-Barnea

Anomaly detection in wind turbines typically involves using normal behaviour models to detect faults early. However, training autoencoder models for each turbine is time-consuming and resource intensive. Thus, transfer learning becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Cyriana M. A. Roelofs , Christian Gück , Stefan Faulstich

Autoencoder (AE) is a neural network (NN) architecture that is trained to reconstruct an input at its output. By measuring the reconstruction errors of new input samples, AE can detect anomalous samples deviated from the trained data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jinho Choi , Jihong Park , Abhinav Japesh , Adarsh

In unsupervised learning, the training data for deep learning does not come with any labels, thus forcing the algorithm to discover hidden patterns in the data for discerning useful information. This, in principle, could be a powerful tool…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-17 Jacob Taylor , Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma

Autoencoders are an effective analysis tool for the LHC, as they represent one of its main goal of finding physics beyond the Standard Model. The key challenge is that out-of-distribution anomaly searches based on the compressibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-23 Barry M. Dillon , Luigi Favaro , Tilman Plehn , Peter Sorrenson , Michael Krämer