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This paper introduces an active learning (AL) framework for anomalous sound detection (ASD) in machine condition monitoring system. Typically, ASD models are trained solely on normal samples due to the scarcity of anomalous data, leading to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Tuan Vu Ho , Kota Dohi , Yohei Kawaguchi

We propose discriminative neighborhood smoothing of generative anomaly scores for anomalous sound detection. While the discriminative approach is known to achieve better performance than generative approaches often, we have found that it…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Takuya Fujimura , Keisuke Imoto , Tomoki Toda

Recently, several normalizing flow-based deep generative models have been proposed to accelerate the simulation of calorimeter showers. Using CaloFlow as an example, we show that these models can simultaneously perform unsupervised anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-12 Claudius Krause , Benjamin Nachman , Ian Pang , David Shih , Yunhao Zhu

Unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) aims to identify anomalous sounds by learning the features of normal operational sounds and sensing their deviations. Recent approaches have focused on the self-supervised task utilizing the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Soonhyeon Choi , Jung-Woo Choi

We propose Flow Mismatching, an unsupervised anomaly detection method that deliberately avoids reconstruction-based paradigms. Instead, we treat flow matching as geometric dynamics and leverage a key insight: anomalies occur at places where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Shengzhe Chen , Mehrdad Moradi , Kamran Paynabar , Hao Yan

This paper proposes an unsupervised anomalous sound detection method using sound separation. In factory environments, background noise and non-objective sounds obscure desired machine sounds, making it challenging to detect anomalous…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Kanta Shimonishi , Kota Dohi , Yohei Kawaguchi

Generative modelling has been a topic at the forefront of machine learning research for a substantial amount of time. With the recent success in the field of machine learning, especially in deep learning, there has been an increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 M. M. A. Valiuddin , C. G. A. Viviers

Anomaly detection in multivariate time series (MTS) has been widely studied in one-class classification (OCC) setting. The training samples in OCC are assumed to be normal, which is difficult to guarantee in practical situations. Such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Qihang Zhou , Shibo He , Haoyu Liu , Jiming Chen , Wenchao Meng

The outlier exposure method is an effective approach to address the unsupervised anomaly sound detection problem. The key focus of this method is how to make the model learn the distribution space of normal data. Based on biological…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xinxin Meng , Jiangtao Guo , Yunxiang Zhang , Shun Huang

Normalizing flows are prominent deep generative models that provide tractable probability distributions and efficient density estimation. However, they are well known to fail while detecting Out-of-Distribution (OOD) inputs as they directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Nishant Kumar , Pia Hanfeld , Michael Hecht , Michael Bussmann , Stefan Gumhold , Nico Hoffmann

We have developed an unsupervised anomalous sound detection method for machine condition monitoring that utilizes an auxiliary task -- detecting when the target machine is active. First, we train a model that detects machine activity by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Tomoya Nishida , Kota Dohi , Takashi Endo , Masaaki Yamamoto , Yohei Kawaguchi

Anomaly detection is a challenging task that frequently arises in practically all areas of industry and science, from fraud detection and data quality monitoring to finding rare cases of diseases and searching for new physics. Most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Artem Ryzhikov , Maxim Borisyak , Andrey Ustyuzhanin , Denis Derkach

Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) aims at identifying anomalous sounds from machines and has gained extensive research interests from both academia and industry. However, the uncertainty of anomaly location and much redundant information such…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Guirui Zhong , Qing Wang , Jun Du , Lei Wang , Mingqi Cai , Xin Fang

Unsupervised anomaly detection stands as an important problem in machine learning, with applications in financial fraud prevention, network security and medical diagnostics. Existing unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms rarely perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Pritam Kar , Rahul Bordoloi , Olaf Wolkenhauer , Saptarshi Bej

In this paper, we introduce a novel mechanism that uses machine learning techniques to detect water leaks in pipes. The proposed simple and low-cost mechanism is designed that can be easily installed on building pipes with various sizes.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hossein Pourmehrani , Reshad Hosseini , Hadi Moradi

We present the first implementation of a Continuous Normalizing Flow (CNF) model for unsupervised anomaly detection within the realistic, high-rate environment of the Large Hadron Collider's L1 trigger systems. While CNFs typically define…

Existing contrastive learning methods for anomalous sound detection refine the audio representation of each audio sample by using the contrast between the samples' augmentations (e.g., with time or frequency masking). However, they might be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jian Guan , Feiyang Xiao , Youde Liu , Qiaoxi Zhu , Wenwu Wang

Existing machine learning methods for causal inference usually estimate quantities expressed via the mean of potential outcomes (e.g., average treatment effect). However, such quantities do not capture the full information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Valentyn Melnychuk , Dennis Frauen , Stefan Feuerriegel

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

Anomalous Sound Detection (ASD) is often formulated as a machine attribute classification task, a strategy necessitated by the common scenario where only normal data is available for training. However, the exhaustive collection of machine…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xin Fang , Guirui Zhong , Qing Wang , Fan Chu , Lei Wang , Mengui Qian , Mingqi Cai , Jiangzhao Wu , Jianqing Gao , Jun Du